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ISBN: 9781549161780
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ISBN: 9781549161766
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ISBN: 9781549163784
| Runtime: | 20.13 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction/Science Fiction |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic 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.
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020
"If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein
"The best science fiction-nonfiction novel I’ve ever read." —Jonathan Lethem, Vanity Fair
"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 (starred)
"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)
"The Ministry for the Future ranks among Robinson's best recent works, a collection of actions and observations that adds up to more than the sum of its eclectic and urgent parts." —Sierra
Also by Kim Stanley Robinson:
Red Moon
New York 2140
2312
Aurora
Shaman
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for a quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom.” —Bloomberg Green
“Jennifer Fitzgerald leads a full cast in this compelling work…Because the cast of characters come from every continent, Fitzgerald must move from her native Irish lilt into a variety of accents and back with hardly a moment to breathe. The listener feels totally immersed…You won’t want to pause for anything. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” —AudioFile
“A gutsy humane view…[and] sweeping, optimistic portrait of humanity’s ability to cooperate in the face of disaster…A must-read.” —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 (starred review)
Score a point for the audacity of hope....Robinson digs deep into how, with institutional support and some off-the-books black ops, revolutionary ideas could still seize our world. —Shelf Awareness on The Ministry for the Future
[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. —Publishers Weekly (starred) on The Ministry for the Future
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 on The Ministry for the Future
Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom. —Bloomberg Green on The Ministry for the Future
...fresh and exciting. Another stellar effort from one of the masters of the genre. —Booklist (starred) on Red Moon
Enjoyable and thought-provoking...[Robinson] is one of contemporary science fiction's great scene-setters. —SF Chronicle on Red Moon
...as convincingly textured and observant as we've come to expect from one of the finest writers of his generation. —Locus magazine on Red Moon
New York may be underwater, but it's better than ever. —The New Yorker on New York 2140
Massively enjoyable. —The Washington Post on New York 2140
Science fiction is threaded everywhere through culture nowadays, and it would take an act of critical myopia to miss the fact that Robinson is one of the world's finest working novelists, in any genre. —Guardian on New York 2140
[A] near-perfect marriage of the technical and the psychological. —NPR Books on Aurora
Intellectually engaged and intensely humane in a way SF rarely is, exuberantly speculative in a way only the best SF can be, this is the work of a writer at or approaching the top of his game. —Iain M. Banks on 2312
Author
Author Bio: Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson is a bestselling author 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. For his book Antarctica, he was sent to the Antarctic by the US National Science Foundation as part of their Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program.
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| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, Playaway |
| Category: | Fiction/Science Fiction |
| Runtime: | 20.13 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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