* Series
Three Californias
1. The Wild Shore (1983)
2. The Gold Coast (1988)
3. Pacific Edge (1990)
Mars
1. Red Mars (1992)
2. Green Mars (1993)
3. Blue Mars (1995)
Capital Code
1. Forty Signs of Rain (2004)
2. Fifty Degrees Below (2005)
3. Sixty Days and Counting (2007)
* Novels
Icehenge (1984)
The Memory of Whiteness (1985)
A Short, Sharp Shock (1990)
Antarctica (1997)
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002) 
* Collections
The Planet on the Table (1986)
Escape from Kathmandu (1989)
Remaking History: And Other Stories (1991)
Martians (1999)
* Chapbooks
Down and Out in the Year 2000 (1992)
Vinland the Dream (2002)
* Series contributed to
Nebula Awards Showcase
3. Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 (2002)
* Non fiction
The Novels of Philip K. Dick (1984) (see Philip K Dick)
* Anthologies containing stories by Kim Stanley Robinson
Voyager 5: Collector's Edition (1969)
The Blind Geometer / The New Atlantis (1979)
UniverseX 11 (1981)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 (1982)
Universe 12 (1982)
Nebula Award Stories 17 (1983)
Universe 13 (1983)
Universe 14 (1984)
Nebula Awards 20 (1985)
Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year 14 (1985)
Universe 15 (1985)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Third Annual Collection (1985)
Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16 (1987)
Full Spectrum 2 (1989)
Nebula Awards 23 (1989)
Future Earths : Under African Skies (1993)
The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980s (1993)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
Nebula Awards 28 (1994)
Nebula Awards 29 (1995)
The Way It Wasn't (1996)
Isaac Asimov's Moons (1997)
Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons (2000)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Seventeenth Annual Collection (2000)
* Short stories
"A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations" (in: Vinland the Dream, originally published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1991, revised for Remaking History),
"A Martian Childhood",
"A Martian Romance" (in: The Martians),
"A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions" (in: Vinland the Dream),
"A Short, Sharp Shock",
"A Transect",
"An Argument for the Deployment of All Safe Terraforming Technologies" (in: The Martians),
"Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars" (in: The Martians),
"Before I Wake",
"Big Man in Love" (in: The Martians),
"Black Air" (in: Vinland the Dream, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1983),
"Coming Back to Dixieland" (in: Vinland the Dream, originally published in Orbit, 18),
"Coyote Makes Trouble" (in: The Martians),
"Coyote Remembers" (in: The Martians),
"Discovering Life" (in: Vinland the Dream and in: The Martians),
"Down and Out in the Year 2000",
"Enough is as Good as a Feast" (in: The Martians),
"Escape from Kathmandu" (in: Escape from Kathmandu),
"Exploring Fossil Canyon" (in: The Martians),
"Festival Night",
"Four Teleological Trails" (in: The Martians),
"Glacier",
"Green Mars" (in: The Martians),
"If Wang Wei Lived on Mars and Other Poems" (in: The Martians),
"Jackie on Zo" (in: The Martians),
"Keeping the Flame" (in: The Martians),
"Maya and Desmond" (in: The Martians),
"Mercurial" (in: Vinland the Dream, originally published in Universe, 15),
"Michel in Antarctica" (in: The Martians),
"Michel in Provence" (in: The Martians),
"Mother Goddess of the World" (in: Escape from Kathmandu),
"Muir on Shasta" (in: Vinland the Dream),
"Odessa" (in: The Martians),
"On the North Pole of Pluto",
"Our Town",
"Purple Mars" (in: The Martians),
"Remaking History" (in: Remaking History and Vinland the Dream, originally published in Gregory Benford/Martin H. Greenberg What Might Have Been),
"Ridge Running" (in: Vinland the Dream, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1984),
"Salt and Fresh" (in: The Martians),
"Saving Noctis Dam" (in: The Martians),
"Sax Moments" (in: The Martians),
"Selected Abstracts from The Journal of Aerological Studies" (in: The Martians),
"Sexual Dimorphism" (in: The Martians),
"Some Worknotes and Commentary on the Constitution, by Charlotte Dorsa Brevia" (in: The Martians),
"Stone Eggs" (in: Vinland the Dream, originally published in Universe, 13),
"The Archaeae Plot" (in: The Martians),
"The Blind Geometer",
"The Constitution of Mars" (in: The Martians),
"The Disguise" (in: Vinland the Dream, originally published in Orbit, 19),
"The Kingdom Underground" (in: Escape from Kathmandu),
"The Lucky Strike" (in: Vinland the Dream, originally published in Universe, 14),
"The Lunatics",
"The Memorial",
"The Part of Us That Loves",
"The Return from Rainbow Bridge",
"The Translator",
"The True Nature of Shangri-La" (in: Escape from Kathmandu),
"The Way the Land Spoke to Us" (in: The Martians),
"To Leave a Mark",
"Venice Drowned" (in: Vinland the Dream, originally published in Universe, 11),
"Vinland the Dream" (in: Vinland the Dream, originally published in Remaking History),
"What Matters" (in: The Martians),
"Whose 'Failure of Scholarship'?",
"Zürich".