Kim Stanley Robinson

摘要

Environmentalists tend to focus on the past, on what was and Is lost. But life Is lessened If that's where we stop-If the Imagination fails to offer futures we can envision better than any past. It Is on the way to those futures that you find Kim Stanley Robinson, perhaps the foremost creator of literary Utopias. Robinson, 56, is a deep believer in the value of science. ("Science is-or should be-the greenest force of all," he says.) He is also one of the most popular writers working In science fiction today. His gift is a vision that uses the environment as the focus of all that happens rather than as grim set dressing or allegorical overlay.