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13 de jun. de 2024 · Kim Stanley Robinson is regarded as one the greatest living writers of science fiction with more than 20 novels and many awards to his name. In this interview with Anna D’Alton (LSE Review of Books), he discusses the climate crisis, his political commitment to utopian fiction and art’s capacity for imagining alternative ways of ...
Hace 1 día · Genre: Sci-Fi, Cli-Fi, Near Future. Reviewer: Scott. Get It On Amazon. About The Book. 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.
Hace 2 días · This essay explores Kim Stanley Robinson’s attempt to write a fiction of the near future in New York 2140 (2017), and how the novel’s treatment of time and history relates to its generic identity. The near future is defined in John Clute and Peter Nicholl’s standard reference work, The Encyclopedia of Science-Fiction, as ‘a world which ...
3 de jun. de 2024 · Kim Stanley Robinson’s fiction explores several technological endeavours needed to ward off disaster, such as pumping meltwater from below Antarctica’s glaciers in order to avoid their collapse and to prevent gargantuan sea-level rise.
10 de jun. de 2024 · Award-winning science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will discuss the political economy needed to cope with the existential threats we are facing and how he has explored this in his writing, in conversation with Elizabeth Robinson, Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and Professor ...
8 de jun. de 2024 · From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. 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.
Hace 3 días · 43/2024 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1997 Hugo Best Novel. Earth is in crisis as Mars continues to transform, terraforming spreads through the rest of the solar system, and expanded lifespans prompt questions of population, ploitics, and how the mind and memory adapts to living so long. An excellent end to the series. An excellent end to ...
