KSR just presented The High Sierra at the Bay Area Book Festival. The Los Angeles Times include it in their May 2022 books and Esquire already recommends it as one of the Best Books of Spring 2022. There are things you can do as local landowners and as local citizens that begin to add up pretty quickly to a larger vision of the landscape. In another interview for Sactown Magazine, Robinson discussed the new book, but also Mars and Ministry:īut ordinary suburban neighborhoods could begin to think about less grass, less water, more native species and more wildlife corridors. I wonder about my local hill-it’s got rocks, it’s got trees, it’s got sky and clouds, weather.” I hope it inspires them to find pleasure in outdoorness and the physical world, especially in this age of the internet and younger generations that are very often caught in their screen reality, to get out into that third dimension.

I hope that people reading the book who will never get to the High Sierra will be thinking, “Well, that sounds like a good range. Others are specific to simply being outdoors. Some parts of the Sierra experience are very specific to the Sierras. I hope that the book can inspire people to pay attention to simply being outdoors, the sky, the trees, walking-things that can be done anywhere.

Robinson described it in this way, in an interview for Publishers Weekly: All about the Sierra Nevada of California.

Numbered chapters alternating between different categories, à la 2312. Shortly after KSR celebrated his 70th birthday, today marks the publication date of KSR's first non-fiction book (well, his thesis The Novels of Philip K Dick excepted), by Hachette/Little Brown and Company!

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