An edition of The Ministry for the Future (2020)

The Ministry for the Future

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An edition of The Ministry for the Future (2020)

The Ministry for the Future

  • 3.47 ·
  • 15 Ratings
  • 101 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 25 Have read

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, post-apocalyptic 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 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)

"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

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Het ministerie voor de toekomst
6 november 2023, Starfish
paperback in Dutch
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The Ministry for the Future
2021, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Ministry for the Future
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
Jun 22, 2021, Orbit
paperback
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The Ministry for the Future
Oct 06, 2020, Hachette B and Blackstone Publishing, Orbit
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Cover of: Ministry for the Future
Ministry for the Future
2020, Orbit
in English
Cover of: Ministry for the Future
Ministry for the Future
2020, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
Cover of: Ministry for the Future
Ministry for the Future
2020, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
Cover of: Ministry for the Future - Carton of 10 Signed Copies
Ministry for the Future - Carton of 10 Signed Copies
2020, Orbit
in English
Cover of: Ministry for the Future
Ministry for the Future: A Novel
2020, Orbit
in English

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London, UK

First Sentence

"It was getting hotter."

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
2020

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3568.O2893

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
563p
Weight
0.300

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL34683853M
ISBN 13
9780356508863

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