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The Ministry for the Future

by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Ministry for the Future - Thryft
The Ministry for the Future - Thryft

Futuristic climate crisis narrative; redefines hope.

This book isn't just an epic tale; it's a call to arms in literary form. As you delve into its pages, you'll be faced with an almost tangible future shaped by the climate crisis—a future that doesn't succumb to the nihilism of dystopias but instead pivots toward a hopeful, if complicated, vision. It's the kind of read that manages to be both an enthralling story and a sobering simulation that might just reshape how you perceive our own trajectory.

  • Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2021)
  • The Kitschies Nominee for Red Tentacle (Novel) (2020)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Ministry for the Future

by Kim Stanley Robinson
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ISBN: 9780316300148
Authors: Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher: Orbit
Date of Publication: 2021-10-19
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science Fiction
Related Topics: Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction
Goodreads rating: 3.88
(rated by 29507 readers)

Description

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 Futur e, 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
 

Futuristic climate crisis narrative; redefines hope.

This book isn't just an epic tale; it's a call to arms in literary form. As you delve into its pages, you'll be faced with an almost tangible future shaped by the climate crisis—a future that doesn't succumb to the nihilism of dystopias but instead pivots toward a hopeful, if complicated, vision. It's the kind of read that manages to be both an enthralling story and a sobering simulation that might just reshape how you perceive our own trajectory.

  • Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2021)
  • The Kitschies Nominee for Red Tentacle (Novel) (2020)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.