Kim Stanley Robinson’s Half Century Love Affair With the Sierra Nevada

Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the world’s greatest living science fiction writers and political novelists. A New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards, he is the author of more than twenty books, including the Mars trilogy and The Ministry for the Future. Robinson, who lives in Davis, spends his summers backpacking in the Sierras and chronicles the geological and political changes he’s witnessed in the mountains over time in a new memoir. Join literary critic Oscar Villalon and climate reporter Laura Klivans in conversation with Robinson about his new book The High Sierra: A Love Story, a genre-shifting novel and atlas of the mountain range.