The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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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
Product Details
Price
$30.00
$27.90
Publisher
Orbit
Publish Date
October 06, 2020
Pages
576
Dimensions
6.3 X 9.6 X 1.7 inches | 1.86 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780316300131
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About the Author
Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times 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, 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.
Reviews
"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
"...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
"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
"...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
"Massively enjoyable."--The Washington Post on New York 2140
"...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
"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
"...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
