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THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE

Kim Stanley Robinson

From the visionary New York Times bestselling author of New York 2140 comes a near-future novel that is a gripping exploration of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces.
Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction's most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces.

But his setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world--rather, he imagines a more hopeful future, one where humanity has managed to overcome our challenges and thrive. It is a novel both immediate and impactful, perfect for his many fans and for readers who crave powerful and thought-provoking sci-fi stories.

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.

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 and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt and 2312. In 2008, he was named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute.
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Published 2020-10-06 by Orbit

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Newsweek has exclusively revealed the cover for Kim Stanley Robinson's THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE! Robinson also commented on the book and the cover: "In The Ministry for the Future I tried to describe the next thirty years going as well as I could believe it might happen, given where we are now," Robinson told Newsweek. "That made it one of the blackest utopias ever written, I suppose, because it seems inevitable that we are in for an era of comprehensive and chaotic change." Read more...

[A] gutsy, humane view of a near-future Earth... 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.

THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE ranks among Robinson's best recent works, a collection of actions and observations that add up to more than the sum of its eclectic and urgent parts. Read more...

Portrays a vision of the near future where, if some people work hard enough, maybe everything won't come to an end.

A breathtaking look at the challenges that face our planet in all their sprawling magnitude and also in their intimate, individual moments of humanity.

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Kim Stanley Robinson's New Yorker piece on the Coronavirus: The Coronavirus Is Rewriting Our Imaginations What felt impossible has become thinkable - The spring of 2020 is suggestive of how much, and how quickly, we can change as a civilization... Read more...

Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom.