The book is rife with complex characters and clandestine government agents, but it also draws on real-life policies and economic theories to form a picture of a very possible future. From there, it follows several firsthand accounts of how the world’s political leaders and policy-makers worked together (or not) to take action on climate change by 2025. It opens in the very near-future with a gut-wrenching scene set in India during a heat-wave. Robinson returns with themes of climate change and hope in his latest, the tremendously engaging The Ministry for the Future. His 2017 novel New York 2140 depicts a New York City half-submerged by rising seas, but by the story’s end, the city’s collective action suggests that a more just and sustainable future lies ahead. His work is often pegged as “hard” science-fiction for the level of detail with which he writes about social and technological advances. Called the “ greatest political novelist” of our time by the New Yorker, Kim Stanley Robinson has infused his science fiction with real-life political, sociological, and ecological concerns for decades.
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