Inventing Plausible Utopias: An Interview With Kim Stanley Robinson

A Q&A with the acclaimed science fiction author and inventor of better futures

Eliot Peper
OneZero
Published in
14 min readJan 14, 2021

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Image: Maciej Toporowicz, NYC/Getty Images

Insurrection. Global pandemic. Cascading climate crises. Never-ending Zooms. We seem to be living through the dystopia Hollywood has always dreamed of, sans a satisfying narrative arc.

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Eliot Peper
OneZero

Novelist: Veil, Breach, Borderless, Bandwidth, Neon Fever Dream, Cumulus, Exit Strategy, Power Play, and Version 1.0.