Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer who lives with his wife and family in Davis, California. He is the author of Three Californias, the Mars trilogy, Galileo’s Dream, 2312, Shaman, Aurora, and other books. He was sent by the National Science Foundation to the Antarctic as part of their Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program, and serves on the advisory board of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He also edited In the Sierra:  Mountain Writings by Kenneth Rexroth.