Kim Stanley Robinson is a science fiction writer who finds it funny to write about himself in the third person. Kim wonders if he can do it. Kim lives in Davis California with his family-wife, two boys, two cats-and he enjoys gardening, backpacking, playing frisbee golf, and travel. Not that he does travel, but he used to. His novels include The Wild Shore, Icehenge, The Memory of Whiteness, The Gold Coast, Pacific Edge, A Short Sharp Shock, Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, Antarctica, The Years of Rice and Salt, Forty Signs of Rain, and Fifty Degrees Below. He likes novels. He has also published a number of short stories. In 1995 he went to Antarctica as part of the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers' Program. His works of fiction have been awarded the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Asimov, Campbell, World Fantasy, Seiun (Japan), Ignotus (Spain), and British Science Fiction Awards, and have been translated into twenty-three languages.

This is a personal essay about the last decade or two of my life as a novelist, about how and why my books have so often been about environmental issues, and about how the recent paradigm shift in climatology, recognizing the reality in the past and probably the future of abrupt climate change, became a central feature of the new trilogy of utopian novels I am writing.