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CHOSEN BY BARACK OBAMA AS ONE OF HIS TOP READS OF 2020 Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organisation was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future, and this is its story. From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry For The Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades to come. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us - and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face. It is a novel both immediate and impactful, desperate and hopeful in equal measure, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written.
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Bestseller Robinson again tackles climate change head-on in this gutsy, humane view of a near-future Earth careening toward collapse . . . Robinson masterfully integrates the practical details of environmental crises and geoengineering projects into a sweeping, optimistic portrait of humanity's ability to cooperate in the face of disaster. This heartfelt work of hard science-fiction is a must-read for anyone worried about the future of the planet
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A breathtaking look at the challenges that face our planet in all their sprawling magnitude and also in their intimate, individual moments of humanity
Booklist
Steely, visionary optimism
Guardian
A panoramic epic, the best science fiction-nonfiction novel I've ever read
Jonathan Lethem, Vanity Fair
The Ministry for the Future
is a great read. Robinson has written a novel that presents the urgency of this crisis in an original way and leaves readers with hope that we can do something about it. The next chapter in the story of our planet is still being written, and the ending is up to us
Bill Gates
Robinson is one of the world's finest working novelists, in any genre.
New York 2140
is a towering novel about a genuinely grave threat to civilisation -- GUARDIANA masterpiece
The Times
A deeply realised world that feels more like a peep into our future than a work of fiction
New Scientist
Robinson seamlessly binds together characters and narrative strands . . . An immensely enjoyable reading experience
SciFiNow
Robinson's writing is so evocative that you can imagine that any one of his paragraphs could feature in the film of the book . . . a thoughtful, innovative page turner -- STARBURSTAny new novel by the great Kim Stanley Robinson is always an event and
Red Moon
doesn't disappoint
Independent
Even at 600-plus pages, there's a leanness to the prose that keeps the plot moving forwards . . . Robinson handles setpieces with aplomb -- SFXA wise and big-hearted novel to read and then, straight away, read again
SFX
Another stellar effort from one of the masters of the genre
Booklist
It's near impossible to capture the vibrance of the entire city in the span of one single novel, yet Kim Stanley Robinson manages to do just that and more -- NEWSWEEKLike all great sci-fi,
New York 2140
is as much inward-looking as it is forward- . . . Robinson's work has a strong, intelligent social conscience -- GQThe lunar landscape is a source of beautifully described detail
Kirkus
A compelling vision of the future
Science
Starkly beautiful and fundamentally optimistic -- THE CONVERSATIONOnly sci-fi can drown Manhattan and make you want to live there -- BLOOMBERG BUSINESS WEEKOne of the finest writers of his generation
Locus
Beautiful descriptions of lunar landscapes
Guardian
This may well be Robinson's masterpiece and is surely the most important piece of sf in years -- MORNING STARSci-fi fans will love the detail and the optimism about humanity's future in space
Wall Street Journal
There have been more than a few environmental catastrophe tales set in a future New York, but possibly none of them have been this interesting
-- LOCUSOne of the most exciting books in climate change fiction yet written... Both immensely readable and timely -- LITHUBUtterly immersive and unexpectedly hopeful -- RT BOOK REVIEWS
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CHOSEN BY BARACK OBAMA AS ONE OF HIS TOP READS OF 2020 Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organisation was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future, and this is its story. From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry For The Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades to come. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us - and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face. It is a novel both immediate and impactful, desperate and hopeful in equal measure, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written.
O autorze
Kim Stanley Robinson is a
New York Times
bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy,
2312
,
Aurora
and
New York 2140.
In 2008 he was named a 'Hero of the Environment' by
Time
magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada research institute. He lives in Davis, California.
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