The characters he creates are rich and believable. I should say first that Robinson is a stylist of the first order, and the texture of his prose is a beautiful thing. This lead me somehow to the works of Kim Stanley Robinson. They wrote better than the bulk of the hard SF writers that filled the shelves at the used bookstores I frequented, they were more "literary." But in the past year or so, I started rereading some of the authors that I had discarded before high school, and I rediscovered the wonder and joy of great imaginative storytelling. Later I discovered the wonder that is Gene Wolfe. When I was about 14, I decided I was more interested in grown up SF, and read more of the experimental New Wavers, Dick, Delany, Sturgeon and Ellison. I've read science fiction pretty regularly since I was pretty young, devouring my father's and uncles' collections indiscriminately. So I'm kind of in that stage with Kim Stanley Robinson. Hell, I read really fast, so it's not like I don't have time. I tend to go on binges when I discover a writer I really like, taking down as many of their works as I possibly can voraciously for the first few months of my acquaintanceship with their works.
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