Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The High Sierra”
A love story.
9 min readMay 24, 2022
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One of the last friends I got to hang out with before lockdown hit was Kim Stanley Robinson, an enormously talented writer and incredibly kind and smart person. Stan told me that he’d just finished a major novel, maybe the major novel of his life, called Ministry for the Future, and that next he was going to write his “Sierra book,” a book about the Sierra Nevada mountain…