Kim Stanley Robinson Reading Order

29 books (1981–2016)

Start with Universe 11, the first of 29 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Universe 11 1981Buy 🇺🇸
2	Nebula Awards 16 1982Buy 🇺🇸
3	Universe 13 1983Buy 🇺🇸
4	Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1985Buy 🇺🇸
5	Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1986 1986Buy 🇺🇸
6	Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1987 1987Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸
8	Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1990 1990Buy 🇺🇸
9	Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1991 1991Buy 🇺🇸
10	Isaac Asimov's Mars 1991Buy 🇺🇸
11	Isaac Asimov's Earth 1992Buy 🇺🇸
12	Under African Skies 1993Buy 🇺🇸
13	Future Primitive 1994Buy 🇺🇸
14	Isaac Asimov's Moons 1997Buy 🇺🇸
15	Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1999 1999Buy 🇺🇸
16	Explorers 2000Buy 🇺🇸
17	Infinity Plus One 2001Buy 🇺🇸
18	Nebula Awards 36 (2002) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction 2002Buy 🇺🇸
20	Future Crimes 2003Buy 🇺🇸
21	New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction 2003Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Hard SF Renaissance 2003Buy 🇺🇸
23	Future Washington 2005Buy 🇺🇸
24	Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: 30th Anniversary Anthology 2007Buy 🇺🇸
25	I'm With the Bears 2011Buy 🇺🇸
26	Lightspeed Magazine, April 2012 2012Buy 🇺🇸
27	Field of Fantasies 2014Buy 🇺🇸
28	Loosed Upon the World 2015Buy 🇺🇸
29	Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2015 Edition 2016Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2004–2015)

Start with Forty Signs of Rain, the first of 4 books in the Capital Code/Science In The Capital series.

#	Title
1	Forty Signs of Rain 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Fifty Degrees Below 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	Sixty Days and Counting 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Green Earth 2015Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1999–1999)

#	Title
1	The Martians 1999Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1993–1996)

Start with Red Mars and read in order.

#	Title
1	Red Mars 1993Buy 🇺🇸
2	Green Mars 1994Buy 🇺🇸
3	Blue Mars 1996Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1984–2022)

Start with The Novels of Philip K. Dick and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Novels of Philip K. Dick 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	The High Sierra 2022Buy 🇺🇸

32 books (1984–2026)

Start with The Presidential Papers(By: John H. Kessel), the first of 32 books in the Outspoken Authors series.

#	Title
1	The Presidential Papers(By: John H. Kessel) 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Human Front(By: Ken MacLeod) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lucky Strike 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Left Left Behind(By: Terry Bisson,Eleanor Arnason) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	Mammoths of the Great Plains(By: Eleanor Arnason) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Underbelly(By: Gary Phillips,Eleanor Arnason) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
7	Modem Times 2.0(By: Michael Moorcock,Eleanor Arnason) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow(By: Cory Doctorow,Eleanor Arnason) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Wild Girls(By: Ursula K. Le Guin,Eleanor Arnason) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	Report from Planet Midnight(By: Nalo Hopkinson,Eleanor Arnason) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	Surfing the Gnarl(By: Rudy Rucker) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
12	New Taboos(By: John Shirley) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
13	Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials(By: Eleanor Arnason,Paul Krassner) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Science of Herself(By: Karen Joy Fowler,Eleanor Arnason) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
15	Raising Hell(By: Norman Spinrad,Eleanor Arnason) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	Gypsy(By: Carter Scholz,Eleanor Arnason) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
17	My Life, My Body(By: Marge Piercy) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
18	Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be(By: Joe R. Lansdale,Eleanor Arnason) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
19	Fire.(By: Elizabeth Hand,Eleanor Arnason) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
20	Totalitopia(By: John Crowley) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Atheist in the Attic(By: Samuel R. Delany,Eleanor Arnason) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
22	Thoreau's Microscope(By: Michael Blumlein,Eleanor Arnason) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
23	A City Made of Words(By: Paul Park) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
24	Talk Like a Man(By: Nisi Shawl) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Beatrix Gates(By: Rachel Pollack) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
26	Big Girl(By: Meg Elison) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
27	Planetbreaker’s Son(By: Nick Mamatas) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
28	Utopias of the Third Kind(By: Vandana Singh) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
29	Night Shift(By: Eileen Gunn) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Collapsing Frontier(By: Jonathan Lethem) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
31	Not What I Intended(By: Nancy Kress) 2025Buy 🇺🇸
32	She is Here(By: Nicola Griffith) 2026Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1983–1987)

Start with Black Air and read in order.

#	Title
1	Black Air 1983Buy 🇺🇸
2	Green Mars (novella; in Asimov's) 1985Buy 🇺🇸
3	Mother Goddess of the World (in Asimov's) 1987Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1986–2020)

Start with The Planet on the Table, the first of 7 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Planet on the Table 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	Escape From Kathmandu 1989Buy 🇺🇸
3	Remaking History and Other Stories 1991Buy 🇺🇸
4	Down and Out in the Year 2000 1992Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson 2001Buy 🇺🇸
6	Vinland the Dream and Other Stories 2002Buy 🇺🇸
7	Stan's Kitchen 2020Buy 🇺🇸

15 books (1984–2020)

Start with Icehenge, the first of 15 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Icehenge 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Memory of Whiteness 1985Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Blind Geometer 1986Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Short, Sharp Shock 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	Antarctica 1997Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Years of Rice and Salt 2002Buy 🇺🇸
7	Galileo's Dream 2009Buy 🇺🇸
8	2312 2012Buy 🇺🇸
9	Shaman 2013Buy 🇺🇸
10	Aurora 2015Buy 🇺🇸
11	Oral Argument 2015Buy 🇺🇸
12	Drowned Worlds 2016Buy 🇺🇸
13	New York 2140 2017Buy 🇺🇸
14	Red Moon 2018Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Ministry for the Future 2020Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1984–1990)

Start with The Wild Shore and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Wild Shore 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Gold Coast 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	Pacific Edge 1990Buy 🇺🇸

17 books (1971–1987)

Start with Universe 1(By: Terry Carr), the first of 17 books in the Universe series.

#	Title
1	Universe 1(By: Terry Carr) 1971Buy 🇺🇸
2	Universe 2(By: Terry Carr) 1972Buy 🇺🇸
3	Universe 3(By: Terry Carr) 1973Buy 🇺🇸
4	Universe 4(By: Terry Carr) 1974Buy 🇺🇸
5	Universe 5(By: Terry Carr) 1974Buy 🇺🇸
6	Universe 6(By: John Shirley,Terry Carr) 1976Buy 🇺🇸
7	Universe 7(By: Terry Carr) 1977Buy 🇺🇸
8	Universe 8(By: Terry Carr) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
9	Universe 9(By: John Shirley,Terry Carr) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
10	Universe 10(By: Terry Carr) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
11	Universe 11(With: William Gibson,Michael Swanwick,Carter Scholz,Michael Bishop,Ian Watson,Nancy Kress,Carol Emshwiller,Josephine Saxton,Terry Carr) 1981Buy 🇺🇸
12	Universe 12(By: Terry Carr) 1982Buy 🇺🇸
13	Universe 13(With: Lucius Shepard,Michael Bishop,Ian Watson,Terry Carr,Bruce Sterling,Leanne Frahm,Bill Bickel) 1983Buy 🇺🇸
14	Universe 14(By: Terry Carr) 1984Buy 🇺🇸
15	Universe 15(By: Terry Carr) 1985Buy 🇺🇸
16	Universe 16(By: Terry Carr) 1986Buy 🇺🇸
17	Universe 17(By: Terry Carr) 1987Buy 🇺🇸