...Kim Stanley Robinson Boom interviews prolific science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson about writing, California, and the future. Topics of discussion include utopian and dystopian visions of the state, the Sierra Nevada and Sacramento Delta, the Orange County of Robinson’s youth, how...

... Bay on Film runs through June 29 and mines the Prelinger Archive to provide an immer- sive and entertaining story of the Bay from the beginning of cinema through the 1970s. Read Kim Stanley Robinson s Three Californias trilogy. Robinson is California s best- known science fiction writer working today...

... of Fear, 359. 5 Ted Trautman, Why Star Trek Made San Francisco the Center of Its Futuristic Utopia Wired, 21 May 2013. Accessed online: httpwww.wired.com/underwire/2013/05/star-trek-san-fran- cisco/? cid¼8173514. 6 Carl Abbott, Falling into History: The Imagined Wests of Kim Stanley Robinson Western...

..., and Kim Stanley Robinson are but the most celebrated of the hundreds of significant science fiction writers to live and work in California and the far West during this period. As the producers of Golden Age sci-fi were lured to the region by the new economic opportunities available to wri- ters...