health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, education, income, children; food, water, shelter, clothing, sex, health care; mobility; physical safety, social safety, job security, savings account, insurance, disability protection, family leave, vacation; place tenure, a commons; access to wilderness, mountains, ocean; peace, political stability, political input, political satisfaction; air, water, esteem; status, recognition; home, community, neighbors, civil society, sports, the arts; longevity treatments, gender choice; the opportunity to become more what you are that's all you need

(subsequently anthologized)
A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions (in Vinland the Dream) Originally publiKim Stanley Robinsond in Author's Choice Monthly #20 Pulphouse Publishing May 1991. In 1982 he married Lisa Howland Nowell an environmental chemist and they have two sons. Awards
Robinson's novels have won eleven major science fiction awards and have been nominated on twenty-nine occasions.

His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly and many of his novels appear to be the direct result of his own scientific fascinations such as the fifteen years of research and lifelong fascination with the planet Mars. Robinson's work has been labeled by reviewers as literary science fiction.