List of interviews
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This is a list of interviews and guest appearances in conferences or events of Kim Stanley Robinson.
See also the list for Kim Stanley Robinson's non-fiction writings, which include articles he himself wrote.
For a shortlist of KSR's very best interviews, see Stan's Favorites!
Note: This page lists interviews that we are currently aware of. It is updated every time a new interview becomes available, but it is not a complete list. You can contribute if you know of an interview that is not on this list. Many thanks go to the members of the Demimonde forum, who contributed in creating this list.
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[edit] 2013
- State of the World 2013 Launch and Symposium, Worldwatch Institute, April 16, 2013
- Living in a Sci-fi World: Author Kim Stanley Robinson , mendelspod.com, January 18, 2013
- Great science fiction authors tell us which novels they wish they’d written themselves, io9.com, January 18, 2013
[edit] 2012
- "Science’s Consciousness": An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, Configurations, Volume 20, Number 1-2 (Winter-Spring 2012)
- Kim Stanley Robinson on 2312, Printsasia (November 2012)
- Generations (The SFX Summer Of SF Reading), with Alastair Reynolds and Jaine Fenn, SFX (in print) (October 2012)
- FDL Book Salon Welcomes Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312, Firedoglake (August 25, 2012)
- Mars Journal, Air & Space (August 2012) (also in print)
- The Surprising Novel That Got Kim Stanley Robinson Interested in Science Fiction, What Was It?, (July 13, 2012)
- In Search of a Plausible Utopia, Structo #8, July 2012 (in print)
- Kim Stanley Robinson's Guide to Building Future History, SFX (in print) (July 2012)
- Our Summer Must-Read Book List, Plus Kim Stanley Robinson Tells All We Come form the Future, (June 22, 2012)
- Live Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson at Capitola Book Café, June 16, 2012 The Agony Column (June 21, 2012)
- Authors@Google, (June 18, 2012)
- Kim Stanley Robinson interview – the long version New Zealand Listener (June 18, 2012)
- Abridged version in the print issue (June 23, 2012)
- The Climate Changed World of 2312 With Kim Stanley Robinson, The Huffington Post, (June 13, 2012)
- Kim Stanley Robinson Sees Humans Colonizing the Solar System in 2312, wired.com, (June 13, 2012)
- Remembering Ray Bradbury, The Takeaway (June 7, 2012)
- An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, SF Site (June 2012)
- Author Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson, Far Beyond Reality (May 31, 2012)
- Author Kim Stanley Robinson Takes Us to 2312 Planetary Radio (May 28, 2012)
- The Big Idea: Kim Stanley Robinson (May 22, 2012)
- Terraforming the Solar System: Q&A With Author Kim Stanley Robinson, space.com (May 18, 2012)
- Kim Stanley Robinson talks 2312 and saving the planet, SciFiNow (May 11, 2012)
- Sci-Fi Writer Kim Stanley Robinson Inhabits Space in 2312, Storyboard Podcast, Wired.com (May 7, 2012)
- Author Spotlight: Kim Stanley Robinson, Lightspeed Magazine (April 2012)
- "The Future Is Fun: PW Talks with Kim Stanley Robinson", Publisher's Weekly (in print) (March 5, 2012)
- PW Talks with Kim Stanley Robinson, Cont. Genreville, Publisher's Weekly (March 5, 2012)
- Writing Climate Change: A Round Table Discussion, a panel discussion with Julie Bertagna, Tobias Buckell, Maggie Gee, Glenda Larke, Kim Stanley Robinson, Vandana Singh, and Joan Slonczewski. Strange Horizons, (February 27, 2012)
[edit] 2011
- Kim Stanley Robinson is with the bears in new anthology, KPCC radio (December 19, 2011)
- Valuing the Earth and Future Generations: Imagining Post-Capitalism (November 16, 2011)
- Pacific Overture, Los Angeles Review of Books (September 16, 2011)
- Reuploaded here (January 9, 2012)
- The Coode Street Podcast, #74, with Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe (August 2011)
- Davis author Kim Stanley Robinson focuses on science, the environment, and the future, The Davis Enterprise (July 7, 2011)
- Fantastische Geschichten, Gen-ethischer Informationsdienst #206, pp.20-23 (in German) (June 2011)
- Agony Column Live Preview (May 31, 2011)
- Off The Shelf The Book Show, ABC Radio National (Australia) (April 19, 2011)
- Bruce Initiative 2011 Rethinking Capitalism Conference (April 7-9, 2011)
- Telling the story of 2008: Realistic, Utopian and Apocalyptic Narratives of What Could Have Happened (Keynote Panel) (April 7, 2011)
- also at Vimeo
- Keynote Panel Discussion (April 7, 2011)
- Round Table Discussion: Eschatology, Visualization and Scenario Planning (April 8, 2011)
- Telling the story of 2008: Realistic, Utopian and Apocalyptic Narratives of What Could Have Happened (Keynote Panel) (April 7, 2011)
[edit] 2010
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Author of “The Lunatics” (Dec 1, 2010)
- Portions subsequently republished at tor.com as part of Dystopia Week: 1, 2
- Sharing the Adventure with the Public: The Value and Excitement of "Grand Questions" of Space Science and Exploration -- Session 6: “What could the future hold for humans in space?” video (November 9, 2010)
- CounterPULSE, Outspoken Authors panel - video (with Terry Bisson, Gary Phillips) (October 13, 2010)
- Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Q&A Part 1 + extract | Q&A Part 2
- Polygraph, #22: Science, Justice, Science Fiction: A Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson (September 2010)
- Aussiecon4: The Bioethics of Terraforming (panel with David D. Levine, James Benford) (September 6, 2010)
- Aussiecon4: Presenting the Hugo Award for Best Novel to China Miéville (September 5, 2010)
- [ Video] (excerpt, no sound)
- Aussiecon4: Guest of Honour speech (September 4, 2010)
- Aussiecon4: Write What You Know! (panel with Jack Dann, Chris Lawson, Kaaron Warren) (September 3, 2010)
- Video (excerpt)
- The Book Show, ABC Radio National (Australia)(Aug 30, 2010)
- Kim Stanley Robinson In Conversation - Big Ideas, Melbourne Writers Festival (Australia) (August 29, 2010)
- Video, with chapters
- Can Science Fiction Motivate Us to Save the Environment? (Video excerpt)
- Video
- Audio
- The Genesis of "In Pierson's Orchestra" in Before They Were Giants: First Works from Science Fiction Greats (Aug 2010)
- SignOnSanDiego: Sci-fi icon named UC San Diego grad speaker (June 9, 2010)
- also as Writer sees busy world ahead for graduates (June 14, 2010)
- UCSD Calit2: Galileo Between Science, Science Studies and Science Fiction (May 6, 2010)
- ActuSF (April, 2010)
- The Los Angeles Times: Kim Stanley Robinson maps the future's gray areas (February 21, 2010)
- "Science, Religion and Ideology" at Duke University (January 29, 2010)
- Kim Stanley Robinson Goes To Jupiter, io9.com (January 28, 2010)
- The BookBanter Blog (January 23, 2010)
[edit] 2009
- The Guardian: Kim Stanley Robinson: science fiction's realist (November 11, 2009)
- Moe's Books reading with Terry Bisson (October 22, 2009)
- SFinSF event with Eric Simons and Terry Bisson, by Agony Column (October 17, 2009)
- Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson, Den of Geek (August 30, 2009)
- Amazon.co.uk Product Description: Galileo's Dream (circa August 6, 2009)
- Climate Change and the Pursuit of Happiness - 2009 Public Affairs Conference, Missouri State University (April 21, 2009)
- Video (MSU)
- Video (YouTube)
- Transcript
- The Future and You (February 18, 2009)
- I Should Be Writing podcast (February 11, 2009)
- Second Life appearance chat transcript (January 17, 2009)
[edit] 2008
- Scalable City reading and talk at gallery@calit2 (December 2, 2008)
- Video
- Exhibition Catalog (contains Excerpt from The Gold Coast)
- Down to Earth with Kim Stanley Robinson, Earth Magazine (in print) (September, 2008)
- Robust Utopias in Peacework Magazine #387 (July-August, 2008)
- SciFiDimensions (April 10, 2008)
- Audio (archive.org)
- Presentation of Documentary The Planet, part 4 on Link TV (March 2008)
- Permaculture & Regenerative Design News (March 7, 2008)
- Oregon State University: "Who Owns The Sky? - "The Future Is A Commons" (February 21, 2008)
- California Heat, KVIE public television (2008)
- Walden5 interviews via viddler.com (2008)
[edit] 2007
- BLDGBLOG (December 19, 2007)
- Google and Climate Change, part of Google TechTalks (December 11, 2007)
- Video hosted at YouTube
- Agony Column (Rick Kleffel) (September 5, 2007)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
- Wired.com (July 3, 2007)
- Fast Forward (July 2007)
- Kim Stanley Robinson on his next novel, The Galileans, UK SF Book News (June 9, 2007) (archive.org)
- Future in Review 2007 Conference (May 25, 2007)
- Futurist.com (May, 2007)
- Science Fiction Author Kim Stanley Robinson Saves Earth! Planetary Radio (April 23, 2007)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
- The Sci Phi Show (April 16, 2007)
- Norwescon 30 Panel with Greg Bear and Gordon Van Gelder (April 8, 2007)
- IT Conversations (April 4, 2007)
- Science in the Capital, Interzone (in print) (April, 2007)
- Locus Mag: Kim Stanley Robinson: Chop Wood, Carry Water (in print) (April, 2007)
- Adventures in Scifi Publishing (March 8, 2007)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
- Science Fiction Weekly #513 - offline, accessible via archive.org (March 5, 2007)
- Fabricating a Future from Science Fiction, The UCSD Guardian - offline, accessible via archive.org (March 5, 2007)
- The Future and You Segment of a larger program. (March 1, 2007)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
- LabLit.com (February 4, 2007)
- Bantam Dell Podcast (February, 2007) (archive.org)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
- The Future and You Segment of a larger program. (January 1, 2007)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
- Writing Against Reality: Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson and China Miéville, Rjurik Davidson, Overland #188 (in print) (Spring 2007)
[edit] 2006
- Liberation.fr interview on the occasion of the translation of Forty Signs Of Rain, in French (November 16, 2006) liberation.fr/culture/livre/217450.FR.php (link dead, not present in archive.org)
- Utopiales 2006 (Nantes, France): "Mars la rouge" - debate with Kim Stanley Robinson, Brian Aldiss, Roland C. Wagner and Jean Demerliac [bad audio quality, french dub] (November 4, 2006)
- Yozone.fr interview during the Utopiales 2006, Nantes, France (November 3, 2006)
- Also: plug for Yozone.fr
- The Future and You Segment of a larger program. (November 1, 2006)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
- Printed Matter, (October 30, 2006)
- The Future and You Segment of a larger program. (October 1, 2006)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
- Exploring a Climate of Disaster, World Watch Magazine (Sept/Oct 2006)
- Chicago Tribune comments on reclassification of Pluto. (August 23, 2006)
- Using the Arts to Galvanize the Public on Global Warming, a panel discussion at the Center for American Progress (April 20, 2006)
- Gary Braasch (video)
- Judith Helfand (video)
- Nicole St. Clair (video)
- Kim Stanley Robinson (video)
- Panel Q&A (video)
- transcript
- Agony Column (Rick Kleffel) (March 6 & 13, 2006)
- Fast Forward (February 2006)
- El diluvio que viene, Página/12 (Argentina, in Spanish) (January 22, 2006)
- Confessions of a Crap Artist A program on Philip K. Dick by Ken Hollings originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (January 16, 2006) (mp3)
- Chico News and Review (January 12, 2006)
- IT Conversations (January 10, 2006)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
[edit] 2005
- Transcript of Q&A at a book reading (November 15, 2005)
- New Scientist Requires subscription. (October 8, 2005)
- Guardian Unlimited (September 14, 2005)
- Strange Horizons (August 15, 2005)
- Q&A with Kim Stanley Robinson, Geotimes (in print) (June 2005)
- Eye on Books (2005)
- Audio direct link.
[edit] 2004
- Davis Enterprise (October 18, 2004)
- Locus Multi-author panel. (September 10, 2004)
- Globe and Mail (July 13, 2004) (archive.org)
- San Diego Union-Tribune (July 4, 2004)
- Science Fiction Studies (July, 2004)
- Fast Forward (July 2004)
- Agony Column (Rick Kleffel) (June 14, 2004)
- Transforming Mars, a panel discussion with KSR, Greg Bear, David Grinspoon, James Kasting, Christopher McKay, Lisa Pratt, John Rummel and Donna Shirley, held during AbSciCon 2004 (March 30, 2004)(transcript divided into parts on NASA's Astrobiology Magazine)
- Sci-Fi Writer Happy with Mars Results, All Things Considered, NPR audio. (January 4, 2004)
- Eye on Books (2004)
- Audio direct link.
[edit] 2003
- S'intéresser à Mars est un signe de bonne santé, Libération.fr (December 19, 2003) (in French) (courtesy archive.org)
- Also excerpted at SciFi-Universe.com
- Kim Stanley Robinson (entrevista), Valis #13 (in print) (Spain) (Winter 2003)
- Science Fiction Weekly #351 - offline, accessible via archive.org (conducted November, 2003; posted online January 12, 2004)
- Translated into Spanish in Velero 25 (Peru) (May 2005)
- A Martian Birthday Party for Ray Bradbury, (August 25, 2003)
- audio (Stan appears 10:35 to 17:30)
- hablamos con… Stanley Robinson Interviú (Spain, in Spanish) (April 4, 2003) (courtesy archive.org)
- Masters of Science Fiction, Planetary Radio (March 31, 2003)
- Audio Link (MP3)
[edit] 2002
- UCTV: UCSD Alumni Science Fiction Authors multi-author panel. (July 9, 2002)
- Video direct link
- January Magazine (July, 2002)
- Monthly Review (July, 2002)
- Who Would Live in a World Like This?, interview with Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Starburst #285 (in print) (May, 2002)
- NPR interview (April 14, 2002)
- Audio direct link.
- Making history without Europe, Sunday Business Post, Cork, Ireland (March 15, 2002) (link dead, no longer archived)
- The Zone (March, 2002)
- The Spin of a Coin, An Anthology of Souls, Interzone #177 (in print) (March, 2002)
- BookSense (February, 2002)
- SciFi.com chat transcript (February, 2002) (archive.org)
- SciFi Wire (February, 2002) (archive.org)
- Locus excerpts from print magazine. (January, 2002)
- Borders (offline; accessible at Archive.org) (2002)
- Axes of Evil, Albedo One #25 (archive.org) (2002)
[edit] 2001
- New Mars (July, 2001) (archive.org)
- Hour 25 (June, 2001)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
- This Week In Science (audio) (October? 2001)
- Like a Japanese Paper Flower in Water: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, Writing on the Edge (in print) (Fall/Winter 2001)
[edit] 2000
- Tomorrow Never Knows, Yahoo! Internet Life (in print) (December, 2000)
- UCTV: UCSD Guestbook (July 11, 2000)
- also available on YouTube
- Space.com (June 26, 2000) (courtesy of archive.org)
- TheOneRing.net chat transcript. (January 19, 2000)
[edit] 1999
- Infinity Plus: Wilderness, Utopia, History: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson (October, 1999)
- also translated into French as Nature, Utopie et Histoire, Galaxies n° 15 (Dec 1999)
- Mars Millennium Project (August 26, 1999)
- HarperCollins (1999)(courtesy of archive.org)
- From Mars to Antarctica Amazon.com (1999) (courtesy archive.org)
- Also on amazon.co.uk
- Szenarien der Zukunft sind wie Gedankenexperimente in der Physik: Ein Gespräch mit Kim Stanley Robinson, from Das Science Fiction Jahr 2000 (conducted March 1999, in print June 2000) (in German)
- Scifi.com online chat with Kim Stanley Robinson, Geoffrey A. Landis & Gardner Dozois - transcript offline, accessible via archive.org (February 9, 1999)
[edit] 1998
- Earth's Final Frontier -- Sci-Fi Writer Kim Stanley Robinson Sets Genre-Defying Latest Book In The Alien Wilderness Of Antarctica, The Seattle Times (July 1998)
- Kim Stanley Robinson: Götterdämmerung on Ice, Publisher's Weekly (June 22, 1998)
- Also collected in the anthology Writing for Your Life #4, Pushcart Press (published in 2000)
- Interview, The New York Review of Science Fiction (in print) (May 1998)
- Space: A New Understanding The Press (Christchurch, New Zealand) (in print) (May 2, 1998)
- "Utopian Antarctica", Antarctica 2010: A notebook : Proceedings of the Antarctic Futures Workshop, 28-30 April 1998 (courtesy of archive.org, also in print)
- Frozen Frontier, Davis Enterprise (in print) (March 29, 1998)
[edit] 1997
- Printed Matter (November 2, 1997)
- Interview at Hugo Awards (September, 1997)
- Video direct link
- Antarctica and Other Alien Landscapes, Locus (in print) (September 1997)
- Locus Excerpts from print magazine. (September, 1997)
- Ice Cool Science - An interview with Kim Stanley Robinson HarperCollins Australia (September, 1997)
- HarperCollins UK version (courtesy archive.org)
- Mars Mania Delights Author, Telegram & Gazette, Worcester, Massachusetts (in print) (July 14, 1997)
- Simply Irresistible, transcript from panel discussion on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer (aired July 14, 1997)
- ReaderCon 9 Interview report of interview from attendee (July 13, 1997)
- Kim Stanley Robinson: The Man from Mars, HarperCollins Voyager website (April, 1997) (courtesy archive.org)
[edit] 1996
- Red Scout, Green Scout, Sci-Fi Universe (in print) (December 1996)
- The Mars Trilogy: An interview, Foundation #68 (in print) (Autumn 1996)
- Life? It's Just an Old Martian Band Tune The New York Daily News (in print) (Aug 8, 1996); also later in a slightly expanded version, Writers See Red Dawn Vindicated: Authors Say Sci-Fie on Those Who Downplayed Mars (Aug 12, 1996)
- Kim Stanley Robinson : Le plaisir d'écrire..., Ozone #3 (in print) (in French) (August 1996)
- Science Fiction Weekly #23 - offline, accessible via archive.org (June, 1996)
- SFX #14, (July 1996)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, The Edge Magazine (May 1996)
- Mars on Earth, Locus (in print) (March, 1996)
- From the Shores of California to the Sands of Mars, Pirate Writings #9 (in print) (1996)
- Printed Matter (January, 21, 1996)
[edit] 1995
- Mars in 3 Colors, ConNotations (Winter 1995)
[edit] 1994
- Uncovering Lives: The Uneasy Alliance of Biography and Psychology, (portion of chapter 15) (in print) (December 1994; paperback May 1997)
- Footprints on the Sands of Mars: Science Fiction Writers Explore the Red Planet, The World & I (April 1994)
- Revised and reprinted in The Gothic Imagination: Conversations on Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction in the Media (October 2011)
- Reality Break: A Talk show of Fantastic Literature (transcript) (March 3, 1994)
[edit] 1993
- "The Red Prophet: Kim Stanley Robinson, an Interview", by Kev McVeigh, Vector #175: 5-8 (in print) (December 1993/January 1994)
- Je vais sur Mars, Yellow Submarine #104 (article, in French) (in print) (October, 1993)
- The Man from Utopia, Territories: The Slipstream Journal #3 (in print) (Summer 1993)
- An Earth-Man with a Mission, Eidolon #13 (in print) (July, 1993)
- Accessible online at eidolon.net
- Science Fiction Studies (conducted June 19, 1993; first published March, 1994)
- Ecology, episode of Prisoners of Gravity (video) (Original airdate: April 22, 1993) (KSR appears at 8:25-9:34, 11:13-13:00)
- Green Light for Red Planet Blues, Interzone #70 (in print) (April, 1993)
- reprinted as Kim Stanley Robinson Says Mars Is Making Eyes at Him, Wordsmiths of Wonder (in print) (October, 1993)
- Utopia, episode of Prisoners of Gravity (video) (Original airdate: March 18, 1993)
- Martian Chronicles: Kim Stanley Robinson Interviewed, Critical Wave #29 (in print) (February, 1993)
[edit] 1992
- Advice, episode of Prisoners Of Gravity (video) (Original airdate: April 16, 1992)
- Mars, episode of Prisoners Of Gravity (tv) (Original airdate: March 19, 1992)
- Interview, Strange Plasma #5 (in print) (1992)
[edit] 1991
- Alternate Histories, episode of Prisoners of Gravity (tv) (Original airdate: October 10, 1991)
- Interview, Tales of the Unanticipated (in print) (Spring/Summer/Fall 1991)
- Future is Name of Author's Game The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (in print) (June 21, 1991)
- A childhood with no end; Author draws on youth for novel of the future The Orange County Register (in print) (Jan 19, 1991)
[edit] 1989
- Entrevue : Kim Stanley Robinson, Solaris #85 (in print) (in French) (July 1989)
- "Robinson on the Gulf Coast: Talking with Kim Stanley Robinson at Worldcon", Michael Sumbera, Glen Cox & Dwight Brown, Nova Express (in print) (Spring 1989)
[edit] 1988
- Me in a mirror, Proxima spécial #4 (article, in French as L'homme dans le miroir) (in print) (November, 1988)
- Entrevue avec Kim Stanley Robinson, Samizdat #14 (in print) (in French) (October 1988)
- Future shock in OC; Former resident writes scary 21st-century tale The Orange County Register (in print) (Mar 27, 1988)
- Future Shock The Washington Post (in print) (Feb 28, 1988)
[edit] 1987
- Entretien : K.S. Robinson, Les Lames vorpales #11 (in print) (in French) (August 1987)
[edit] 1986
- Entretien avec Kim Stanley Robinson, Univers 1986, in Science-Fiction #2012 (in print) (in French) (May 1986)
[edit] Related
- Rediscovered Treasure: Mars trilogy, interview with HarperCollins/Voyager publisher Jane Johnson (May 12, 2010)
- Article by John Clute for Capclave 2006 (October 16, 2006)
[edit] External links
- Kim Stanley Robinson in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
