The Ministry for the Future
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Kim Stanley Robinson
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR“The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem "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 (Vox)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. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year, this extraordinary novel from visionary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis."One hopes that this book is read widely—that Robinson’s audience, already large, grows by an order of magnitude. Because the point of his books is to fire the imagination."―New York Review of Books"If there’s any book that hit me hard this year, it was Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, a sweeping epic about climate change and humanity’s efforts to try and turn the tide before it’s too late." ―Polygon (Best of the Year) "Masterly." —New Yorker"[The Ministry for the Future] struck like a mallet hitting a gong, reverberating through the year ... it’s terrifying, unrelenting, but ultimately hopeful. Robinson is the SF writer of my lifetime, and this stands as some of his best work. It’s my book of the year." —Locus"Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom." ―Bloomberg Green
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Author
Kim Stanley Robinson
Pages
576
Publisher
Orbit
Published Date
2020-10-06
ISBN
0316300160 9780316300162
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"Really remarkable!! Long and unconventional (meeting minutes and personal stories interjected as interludes that also flesh out our characters and the context they are in, etc), but for a book that starts out bleak and dystopian it becomes incredibly hopeful and people band together to try to DO something big and it was just really really enjoyable and really really smart and boy oh boy does this author think big."
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CaitVD
"They took a dramatic current event and made it a bore. Struggled to finish."
John Griffith
"The first chapter should be required reading, it was so perfectly written and terrifying as it should be, then it gets slow, and long but it was worth trudging through. "
Md
"Good concept, poorly executed. "
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Ally M
"I’d give this 4 stars for the experience of it as entertainment, maybe 4.5. But its importance as activism gets it 5. Robinson, whose work I’ve enjoyed elsewhere, has made confronting the reality of global warming thinkable — no small feat. Trying to decide how many copies to buy as gifts for loved ones."
Chris Hayashida-Knight
"Hands down one of the most eye-opening books ever written. Brilliant work by Kim Stanley Robinson. He shows us the tragic costs of climate change and offers us a way out to get things right for humanity. It’s a blueprint for a better future where every one of us can not only survive but thrive."
Stephen Janoyan