See the speech he gave at the 2012 San Francisco Humanity+ conference for an example of how reasonable he can be. He is an eminently reasonable man, who, through his calm, assured manner, gives English PhDs a good name. I went into Red Mars trusting in Kim Stanley Robinson. Essentially hard Sci-Fi is an author’s prediction, which means the book is only good insofar as the reader trusts the author to be incredibly intelligent and well-informed about all things scientific. That means no aliens, no time travel, no intergalactic planet-hopping. Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars is probably the book that most science fiction aficionados think of when they think of hard Sci-Fi-that branch of science fiction that concerns itself only with the plausible.
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