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Kim Stanley Robinson Books in Order

Find every Kim Stanley Robinson book in order, including standalone titles and complete series reading orders with publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 99 books / 11 series

American author Kim Stanley Robinson is best known for the Mars trilogy and *The Ministry for the Future*. A multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner, his works are celebrated for their rigorous scientific and political depth. This page provides the Kim Stanley Robinson books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.

All Kim Stanley Robinson Books in Chronological Order

1970 Shoreline of Infinity 18(By: Noel Chidwick) POoSoISFMB / 1 Buy
1971 Universe 1(By: Terry Carr) POoUB / 1 Buy
1972 Universe 2(By: Terry Carr) POoUB / 2 Buy
1973 Universe 3(By: Terry Carr) POoUB / 3 Buy
1974 Universe 4(By: Terry Carr) POoUB / 4 Buy
1974 Universe 5(By: Terry Carr) POoUB / 5 Buy
1976 Universe 6(By: John Shirley,Terry Carr) POoUB / 6 Buy
1977 Universe 7(By: Terry Carr) POoUB / 7 Buy
1978 Universe 8(By: Terry Carr) POoUB / 8 Buy
1979 Universe 9(By: John Shirley,Terry Carr) POoUB / 9 Buy
1980 Universe 10(By: Terry Carr) POoUB / 10 Buy
1981 Universe 11(With: William Gibson,Michael Swanwick,Carter Scholz,Michael Bishop,Ian Watson,Nancy Kress,Carol Emshwiller,Josephine Saxton,Terry Carr) POoUB / 11 Buy
1982 Universe 12(By: Terry Carr) POoUB / 12 Buy
1983 Black Air POoSS / 1 Buy
1983 Universe 13(With: Lucius Shepard,Michael Bishop,Ian Watson,Terry Carr,Bruce Sterling,Leanne Frahm,Bill Bickel) POoUB / 13 Buy
1984 The Novels of Philip K. Dick POoNB / 1 Buy
1984 The Presidential Papers(By: John H. Kessel) POoOAB / 1 Buy
1984 The Wild Shore POoTCTB / 1 Buy
1984 Icehenge POoSN / 1 Buy
1984 Universe 14(By: Terry Carr) POoUB / 14 Buy
1985 The Memory of Whiteness POoSN / 2 Buy
1985 Green Mars (novella; in Asimov's) POoSS / 2 Buy
1985 Universe 15(By: Terry Carr) POoUB / 15 Buy
1986 The Planet on the Table POoSSC / 1 Buy
1986 The Blind Geometer POoSN / 3 Buy
1986 Universe 16(By: Terry Carr) POoUB / 16 Buy
1987 Mother Goddess of the World (in Asimov's) POoSS / 3 Buy
1987 Universe 17(By: Terry Carr) POoUB / 17 Buy
1988 The Gold Coast POoTCTB / 2 Buy
1989 Escape From Kathmandu POoSSC / 2 Buy
1990 Pacific Edge POoTCTB / 3 Buy
1990 A Short, Sharp Shock POoSN / 4 Buy
1991 Remaking History and Other Stories POoSSC / 3 Buy
1992 Down and Out in the Year 2000 POoSSC / 4 Buy
1993 Red Mars POoMTB / 1 Buy
1994 Green Mars POoMTB / 2 Buy
1996 Blue Mars POoMTB / 3 Buy
1997 Antarctica POoSN / 5 Buy
1999 The Martians POoMC / 1 Buy
2001 The Human Front(By: Ken MacLeod) POoOAB / 2 Buy
2001 The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson POoSSC / 5 Buy
2002 The Years of Rice and Salt POoSN / 6 Buy
2002 Vinland the Dream and Other Stories POoSSC / 6 Buy
2004 Forty Signs of Rain POoCCITCB / 1 Buy
2005 Fifty Degrees Below POoCCITCB / 2 Buy
2007 Sixty Days and Counting POoCCITCB / 3 Buy
2009 The Left Left Behind(By: Terry Bisson,Eleanor Arnason) POoOAB / 3 Buy
2009 Lucky Strike POoOAB / 4 Buy
2009 Galileo's Dream POoSN / 7 Buy
2010 The Underbelly(By: Gary Phillips,Eleanor Arnason) POoOAB / 5 Buy
2010 Mammoths of the Great Plains(By: Eleanor Arnason) POoOAB / 6 Buy
2011 The Wild Girls(By: Ursula K. Le Guin,Eleanor Arnason) POoOAB / 7 Buy
2011 Modem Times 2.0(By: Michael Moorcock,Eleanor Arnason) POoOAB / 8 Buy
2011 The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow(By: Cory Doctorow,Eleanor Arnason) POoOAB / 9 Buy
2012 2312 POoSN / 8 Buy
2012 Surfing the Gnarl(By: Rudy Rucker) POoOAB / 10 Buy
2012 Report from Planet Midnight(By: Nalo Hopkinson,Eleanor Arnason) POoOAB / 11 Buy
2013 Shaman POoSN / 9 Buy
2013 The Science of Herself(By: Karen Joy Fowler,Eleanor Arnason) POoOAB / 12 Buy
2013 Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials(By: Eleanor Arnason,Paul Krassner) POoOAB / 13 Buy
2013 New Taboos(By: John Shirley) POoOAB / 14 Buy
2014 Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction POoNB / 2 Buy
2014 Raising Hell(By: Norman Spinrad,Eleanor Arnason) POoOAB / 15 Buy
2015 Shoreline of Infinity 1(By: Noel Chidwick) POoSoISFMB / 2 Buy
2015 Green Earth POoCCITCB / 4 Buy
2015 Aurora POoSN / 10 Buy
2015 Oral Argument POoSN / 11 Buy
2015 My Life, My Body(By: Marge Piercy) POoOAB / 16 Buy
2015 Gypsy(By: Carter Scholz,Eleanor Arnason) POoOAB / 17 Buy
2016 Shoreline of Infinity 6(By: Noel Chidwick) POoSoISFMB / 3 Buy
2016 Drowned Worlds POoSN / 12 Buy
2016 Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be(By: Joe R. Lansdale,Eleanor Arnason) POoOAB / 18 Buy
2017 Shoreline of Infinity 8(By: Noel Chidwick) POoSoISFMB / 4 Buy
2017 Shoreline of Infinity 9(By: Noel Chidwick) POoSoISFMB / 5 Buy
2017 New York 2140 POoSN / 13 Buy
2017 Fire.(By: Elizabeth Hand,Eleanor Arnason) POoOAB / 19 Buy
2017 Totalitopia(By: John Crowley) POoOAB / 20 Buy
2018 Shoreline of Infinity 12(By: Noel Chidwick) POoSoISFMB / 6 Buy
2018 Red Moon POoSN / 14 Buy
2018 The Atheist in the Attic(By: Samuel R. Delany,Eleanor Arnason) POoOAB / 21 Buy
2018 Thoreau's Microscope(By: Michael Blumlein,Eleanor Arnason) POoOAB / 22 Buy
2019 Shoreline of Infinity, Issue 14, Spring 2019(By: Ken MacLeod,Neil Williamson,Cat Hellisen,Andrew Reichard,Noel Chidwick,Eris Young,Thomas Broderick,Emma Levin,Rhiannon Grist,Vicki Jarrett) POoSoISFMB / 7 Buy
2019 The Beatrix Gates(By: Rachel Pollack) POoOAB / 23 Buy
2019 A City Made of Words(By: Paul Park) POoOAB / 24 Buy
2019 Talk Like a Man(By: Nisi Shawl) POoOAB / 25 Buy
2020 Stan's Kitchen POoSSC / 7 Buy
2020 The Ministry for the Future POoSN / 15 Buy
2020 Big Girl(By: Meg Elison) POoOAB / 26 Buy
2021 Shoreline of Infinity 20(By: Noel Chidwick) POoSoISFMB / 8 Buy
2021 Shoreline of Infinity 21(By: Noel Chidwick) POoSoISFMB / 9 Buy
2021 Shoreline of Infinity 22(By: Noel Chidwick) POoSoISFMB / 10 Buy
2021 Planetbreaker’s Son(By: Nick Mamatas) POoOAB / 27 Buy
2021 Utopias of the Third Kind(By: Vandana Singh) POoOAB / 28 Buy
2022 The High Sierra POoNB / 3 Buy
2022 Night Shift(By: Eileen Gunn) POoOAB / 29 Buy
2023 Shoreline of Infinity, Issue 36, Autumn 2023: Climate Change Special(With: Noel Chidwick,Christopher R. Muscato,Lyndsey Croal,Tania Chen,Rhiannon Grist,Gessica Sakamoto Martini,Knighton Knighton,Sara Kate Ellis,Greta Colombani) POoSoISFMB / 11 Buy
2024 The Collapsing Frontier(By: Jonathan Lethem) POoOAB / 30 Buy
2025 Not What I Intended(By: Nancy Kress) POoOAB / 31 Buy
2026 She is Here(By: Nicola Griffith) POoOAB / 32 Buy

Kim Stanley Robinson Book Series Reading Orders / browse all ->

01 Red Mars 1993 Buy
02 Green Mars 1994 Buy
03 Blue Mars 1996 Buy
Standalone Books in Reading Order 15 books / 1984-2020
01 Icehenge 1984 Buy
02 The Memory of Whiteness 1985 Buy
03 The Blind Geometer 1986 Buy
04 A Short, Sharp Shock 1990 Buy
05 Antarctica 1997 Buy
06 The Years of Rice and Salt 2002 Buy
07 Galileo's Dream 2009 Buy
08 2312 2012 Buy
09 Shaman 2013 Buy
10 Aurora 2015 Buy
11 Oral Argument 2015 Buy
12 Drowned Worlds 2016 Buy
13 New York 2140 2017 Buy
14 Red Moon 2018 Buy
15 The Ministry for the Future 2020 Buy
01 Black Air 1983 Buy
02 Green Mars (novella; in Asimov's) 1985 Buy
03 Mother Goddess of the World (in Asimov's) 1987 Buy
Universe Books in Reading Order 17 books / 1971-1987
01 Universe 1(By: Terry Carr) 1971 Buy
02 Universe 2(By: Terry Carr) 1972 Buy
03 Universe 3(By: Terry Carr) 1973 Buy
04 Universe 4(By: Terry Carr) 1974 Buy
05 Universe 5(By: Terry Carr) 1974 Buy
06 Universe 6(By: John Shirley,Terry Carr) 1976 Buy
07 Universe 7(By: Terry Carr) 1977 Buy
08 Universe 8(By: Terry Carr) 1978 Buy
09 Universe 9(By: John Shirley,Terry Carr) 1979 Buy
10 Universe 10(By: Terry Carr) 1980 Buy
11 Universe 11(With: William Gibson,Michael Swanwick,Carter Scholz,Michael Bishop,Ian Watson,Nancy Kress,Carol Emshwiller,Josephine Saxton,Terry Carr) 1981 Buy
12 Universe 12(By: Terry Carr) 1982 Buy
13 Universe 13(With: Lucius Shepard,Michael Bishop,Ian Watson,Terry Carr,Bruce Sterling,Leanne Frahm,Bill Bickel) 1983 Buy
14 Universe 14(By: Terry Carr) 1984 Buy
15 Universe 15(By: Terry Carr) 1985 Buy
16 Universe 16(By: Terry Carr) 1986 Buy
17 Universe 17(By: Terry Carr) 1987 Buy
01 The Novels of Philip K. Dick 1984 Buy
02 Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction 2014 Buy
03 The High Sierra 2022 Buy
01 Forty Signs of Rain 2004 Buy
02 Fifty Degrees Below 2005 Buy
03 Sixty Days and Counting 2007 Buy
04 Green Earth 2015 Buy
01 The Planet on the Table 1986 Buy
02 Escape From Kathmandu 1989 Buy
03 Remaking History and Other Stories 1991 Buy
04 Down and Out in the Year 2000 1992 Buy
05 The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson 2001 Buy
06 Vinland the Dream and Other Stories 2002 Buy
07 Stan's Kitchen 2020 Buy
01 The Martians 1999 Buy
01 The Presidential Papers(By: John H. Kessel) 1984 Buy
02 The Human Front(By: Ken MacLeod) 2001 Buy
03 The Left Left Behind(By: Terry Bisson,Eleanor Arnason) 2009 Buy
04 Lucky Strike 2009 Buy
05 The Underbelly(By: Gary Phillips,Eleanor Arnason) 2010 Buy
06 Mammoths of the Great Plains(By: Eleanor Arnason) 2010 Buy
07 The Wild Girls(By: Ursula K. Le Guin,Eleanor Arnason) 2011 Buy
08 Modem Times 2.0(By: Michael Moorcock,Eleanor Arnason) 2011 Buy
09 The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow(By: Cory Doctorow,Eleanor Arnason) 2011 Buy
10 Surfing the Gnarl(By: Rudy Rucker) 2012 Buy
11 Report from Planet Midnight(By: Nalo Hopkinson,Eleanor Arnason) 2012 Buy
12 The Science of Herself(By: Karen Joy Fowler,Eleanor Arnason) 2013 Buy
13 Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials(By: Eleanor Arnason,Paul Krassner) 2013 Buy
14 New Taboos(By: John Shirley) 2013 Buy
15 Raising Hell(By: Norman Spinrad,Eleanor Arnason) 2014 Buy
16 My Life, My Body(By: Marge Piercy) 2015 Buy
17 Gypsy(By: Carter Scholz,Eleanor Arnason) 2015 Buy
18 Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be(By: Joe R. Lansdale,Eleanor Arnason) 2016 Buy
19 Fire.(By: Elizabeth Hand,Eleanor Arnason) 2017 Buy
20 Totalitopia(By: John Crowley) 2017 Buy
21 The Atheist in the Attic(By: Samuel R. Delany,Eleanor Arnason) 2018 Buy
22 Thoreau's Microscope(By: Michael Blumlein,Eleanor Arnason) 2018 Buy
23 The Beatrix Gates(By: Rachel Pollack) 2019 Buy
24 A City Made of Words(By: Paul Park) 2019 Buy
25 Talk Like a Man(By: Nisi Shawl) 2019 Buy
26 Big Girl(By: Meg Elison) 2020 Buy
27 Planetbreaker’s Son(By: Nick Mamatas) 2021 Buy
28 Utopias of the Third Kind(By: Vandana Singh) 2021 Buy
29 Night Shift(By: Eileen Gunn) 2022 Buy
30 The Collapsing Frontier(By: Jonathan Lethem) 2024 Buy
31 Not What I Intended(By: Nancy Kress) 2025 Buy
32 She is Here(By: Nicola Griffith) 2026 Buy
01 Shoreline of Infinity 18(By: Noel Chidwick) 1970 Buy
02 Shoreline of Infinity 1(By: Noel Chidwick) 2015 Buy
03 Shoreline of Infinity 6(By: Noel Chidwick) 2016 Buy
04 Shoreline of Infinity 8(By: Noel Chidwick) 2017 Buy
05 Shoreline of Infinity 9(By: Noel Chidwick) 2017 Buy
06 Shoreline of Infinity 12(By: Noel Chidwick) 2018 Buy
07 Shoreline of Infinity, Issue 14, Spring 2019(By: Ken MacLeod,Neil Williamson,Cat Hellisen,Andrew Reichard,Noel Chidwick,Eris Young,Thomas Broderick,Emma Levin,Rhiannon Grist,Vicki Jarrett) 2019 Buy
08 Shoreline of Infinity 20(By: Noel Chidwick) 2021 Buy
09 Shoreline of Infinity 21(By: Noel Chidwick) 2021 Buy
10 Shoreline of Infinity 22(By: Noel Chidwick) 2021 Buy
11 Shoreline of Infinity, Issue 36, Autumn 2023: Climate Change Special(With: Noel Chidwick,Christopher R. Muscato,Lyndsey Croal,Tania Chen,Rhiannon Grist,Gessica Sakamoto Martini,Knighton Knighton,Sara Kate Ellis,Greta Colombani) 2023 Buy
01 The Wild Shore 1984 Buy
02 The Gold Coast 1988 Buy
03 Pacific Edge 1990 Buy

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What is the best order to read Kim Stanley Robinson books?

Publication order is usually the safest place to start. If a book belongs to a series, follow the numbered series reading order shown on this page.

Are standalone books and series both included?

Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.

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