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Kim Stanley Robinson Imagines Utopia in 2025
“The good result is not impossible yet,” says the bestselling science-fiction writer on the Zero podcast
Kim Stanley Robinson
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Kim Stanley Robinson has written many bestselling science-fiction books and says medical advances saved his life twice. At 72, he’s still at his lifelong project of imagining utopias, which he considers “an obligation to the people who come after us.”
But utopia in 2025? The planet just experienced its hottest year on record, wars are continuing to drag on and democracies around the world are facing unprecedented crises.