The intense thereness of it-haecceity Sax had called it once, when John had asked him something about his religious beliefs-I believe in haecceity, Sax had said, in thisness, in here-and-nowness, in the particular individuality of every moment. That's why I want to know what is this? what is this? what is this? Now, remembering Sax's odd word and his odd religion, John finally understood him; because he was feeling the thisness of the moment like a rock in his hand, and it felt as if his entire life had been lived only to get him to this moment.

(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.