List of short stories and novellas

This is a list of the short stories, novellas and other fiction writings, including poems, published by Kim Stanley Robinson, in the order of their first publication. Many of these writings were published more than once, and most have been included in short story collection releases. For a list of non-fiction publications, see here.

Robinson mainly wrote short stories in the 1970s and 1980s, in the beginning of his career as a writer. He has now acknowledged that his more recent writing habits have drawn him away from the short story format in favor of novels, however he does not exclude a future effort to pick back writing in shorter prose.

The right columns of the following table indicate in which collections was the story published, usually after an initial publication in a magazine:

The following abbreviations were also used: F&SF for The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction and IASFM for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

Year Name First published PT EK RH DO RO M4 VD BO
1976 Coming Back To Dixieland Orbit 18 1       1   1  
In Pierson’s Orchestra Orbit 18                
1977 The Disguise Orbit 19 1       1   1  
The Thing Itself Clarion SF                
1978 #4 (poem) The Anthology of Speculative Poetry #3                
1980 On The North Pole Of Pluto Orbit 21                
A Poem for Johannes (poem) The Anthology of Speculative Poetry #4                
1981 Venice Drowned Universe 11 1       1   1 1
1982 To Leave A Mark F&SF Nov-1982                
Exploring Fossil Canyon Universe 12           1    
1983 Black Air F&SF Mar-1983 1       1   1 1
Stone Eggs Universe 13 1       1   1  
1984 Sense and Science: Davis, March 1979 (poem) Velocities #4                
The Lucky Strike Universe 14 1       1   1 1
Ridge Running Universe 13 1       1   1 1
1985 Green Mars IASFM Sep-1985           1    
Mercurial Universe 15 1       1   1  
1986 Down And Out In The Year 2000 IASFM Apr-1986     1 1 1      
Escape From Kathmandu IASFM Sep-1986   1           1
Our Town Omni Nov-1986     1 1 1     1
The Blind Geometer Cheap Street       1       1
A Transect F&SF May-1986     1 1 1      
1987 Rainbow Bridge F&SF Aug-1987     1 1 1      
The Memorial In the Field of Fire                
Mother Goddess Of The World IASFM Oct-1987   1            
1988 Remaking History Other Edens II     1   1     1
Glacier IASFM Sep-1988     1 1 1     1
The Lunatics Terry's Universe     1 1 1     1
The Part Of Us That Loves Das Grosse Weinachts-buch Der Phantasie     1   1      
1989 Before I Wake Interzone #27     1 1 1     1
The True Nature Of Shangri-La IASFM Dec-1989   1            
The Kingdom Underground     1            
1990 The Translator Universe 1     1 1 1     1
A Short, Sharp Shock IASFM Nov-1990       1        
Zürich F&SF Mar-1990     1 1 1     1
1991 Muir On Shasta Author’s Choice Monthly #20     1   1   1 1
A Sensitive Dependence On Initial Conditions Author’s Choice Monthly #20     1   1   1 1
"A History Of The Twentieth Century, With Illustrations" IASFM Apr-1991     1   1   1 1
Vinland The Dream IASFM Nov-1991     1   1   1 1
1994 A Martian Childhood Asimov’s Feb-1994                
1999 Michel In Antarctica             1    
The Archaea Plot             1    
The Way The Land Spoke To Us             1    
Maya And Desmond             1    
Four Teleological Trails             1    
Coyote Makes Trouble             1    
Michel In Provence             1    
Arthur Sternbach Brings The Curveball To Mars IASFM Aug-1999           1   1
Salt And Fresh             1    
The Constitution Of Mars             1    
Some Worknotes And Commentary On The Constitution, By Charlotte Dorsa Brevia             1    
Jackie On Zo             1    
Keeping The Flame             1    
Saving Noctis Dam             1    
Big Man In Love             1    
An Argument For The Deployment Of All Safe Terraforming Technologies             1    
Selected Abstracts From The Journal Of Areological Studies             1    
Odessa             1    
Sexual Dimorphism IASFM June-1999           1   1
Enough Is As Good As A Feast             1    
What Matters             1    
Coyote Remembers             1    
Sax Moments             1    
The Names Of The Canals             1    
The Soundtrack             1    
A Martian Romance             1    
If Wang Wei Lived On Mars And Other Poems             1    
Purple Mars             1    
2000 How science saved the world: Has science driven history for the past 50,000 years? Nature #6765                
Discovering Life Collector's Edition:
Five Brand New Short Stories from Voyager Authors‎		           1   1
The Future Of Adventure GORP.com                
UCSD and Permaculture UCSD Perspectives, Summer 2000                
2005 Prometheus Unbound, At Last Nature #7052               1
2010 The Timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, 1942 The Best of KSR               1
2015 Oral Argument Tor.com                

 

Additional editions

Short stories included in other English-speaking editions, not found in the pages dedicated to individual stories.

Audio readings and adaptations

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