Shortlisted for Arthur C.Clarke Award 2010.

'A triumph, with Robinson's gifts for characterisation and world-building firmly to the fore. His Galileo is wonderful: brilliant, irascible, sometimes hateful, and always fascinating. The finale is both stirring and melancholic, and a fitting tribute to science's most famous iconoclast.' New Scientist Praise for the Mars trilogy: 'Staggering ! Required reading for the colonists of the next century' Arthur C. Clarke 'The ultimate in future history' Daily Mail 'One of the most impressive pieces of science fiction of the past ten years' The Economist 'Absorbing, impressive, fascinating! Utterly plausible' Financial Times 'One of the landmarks of American literature' TLS

Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952. After travelling and working around the world, he settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched scientific basis of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win and is the author of the massively successful and lavishly praised 'Mars' series.