📕 subnode [[@neil/the ministry for the future]]
in 📚 node [[the-ministry-for-the-future]]
The Ministry for the Future
A : [[book]]
Author : [[Kim Stanley Robinson]]
Paints an incredibly grim picture of a world experiencing [[climate breakdown]] and the political ramifications. The opening chapter of a deadly heatwave in India is absolutely brutal. This is what climate crisis means.
Lots of didactic bits along the way. Some reviews say these are a bit tedious, but I've found them fairly positive so far - you learn from them. It does have a pretty stilted narrative flow as a result though.
It is hard science-fiction. So much that you might call it [[scientific utopianism]]. Though I don't know how much Robinson actively wants things to play out this way. (e.g. is he down with the acts of [[eco-terrorism]] or just thinks it will likely happen regardless).
Timeline
📖 stoas
- public document at doc.anagora.org/the-ministry-for-the-future
- video call at meet.jit.si/the-ministry-for-the-future