The Ministry for the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Climate crisis meets bureaucracy.
For you if
you want climate fiction that takes the political and economic problem seriously not just the emotional one
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A near-future epic that refuses despair, Robinson’s novel imagines the bureaucrats, activists, and dreamers fighting to save a planet on fire. It’s science fiction that doubles as a policy document — audacious, data-driven, and defiantly hopeful. Proof that imagining survival is itself a radical act.
Where This Book Lives
- Themes
- climate change
Same pattern, different era
Different time, different place. The same thing keeps happening.
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For the family bookshelf
Same idea, written for a younger reader. Good for reading together.
