Kim Stanley Robinson returns with his most ambitious novel to date. Charting our future over the coming century, and set against a background of political, economic and environmental upheaval, it is a work of brilliant imagination and powerful ideas from one of the most important science fiction writers of our time.
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Kim Stanley Robinson returns with his most ambitious novel to date. Charting our future over the coming century, and set against a background of political, economic and environmental upheaval, it is a work of brilliant imagination and powerful ideas from one of the most important science fiction writers of our time.
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Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organisation was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future, and this is its story. From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined.Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry For The Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades to come.Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic 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.Also by Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Moon New York 2140 2312 Aurora Shaman
Critic Reviews
“Robinson is one of the world's finest working novelists, in any genre . . . New York 2140 is a towering novel about a genuinely grave threat to civilisationLike all great sci-fi, New York 2140 is as much inward-looking as it is forward- . . . Robinson's work has a strong, intelligent social conscienceRobinson seamlessly binds together characters and narrative strands . . . An immensely enjoyable reading experienceOnly sci-fi can drown Manhattan and make you want to live there”
Robinson is one of the world's finest working novelists, in any genre . . . New York 2140 is a towering novel about a genuinely grave threat to civilisation
Like all great sci-fi, New York 2140 is as much inward-looking as it is forward- . . . Robinson's work has a strong, intelligent social conscience
Robinson seamlessly binds together characters and narrative strands . . . An immensely enjoyable reading experience
Only sci-fi can drown Manhattan and make you want to live there
About the Author
Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller 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.
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organisation was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future, and this is its story. From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined.Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry For The Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades to come.Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic 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.Also by Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Moon New York 2140 2312 Aurora Shaman
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