Kim Stanley Robinson

I find that I am constantly introducing new and old friends to my favorite living fiction author and then myself jumping back into Stan’s books at random points and picking up new insights. Today, I did that with Green Mars–the section on the Long Run Out is about a character with intense senior memory issues, political views, and scientific curiosity all at the same time. It’s about humans on Mars in the late 21st century. Still, it might as well be about Stan’s own state of California in the early 21st: huge on geology, climate, political change, and the world’s sixth-largest economy.