![]() And genre disregard for the subject matter has been to Robinson’s gain. This is the meat and potatoes of the long transition - that which has dismissively been called “a cookshop of the future.” But while it may not service as a political blueprint, it is undeniably fertile ground for a novel. ![]() Green New Deal–style programs in a number of the world’s biggest economies feature prominently - with a post-BJP India leading the way - and the commandeering of many of the world’s key central banks to finance the work toward a just transition off fossil fuels is explored. ![]() The novel’s action spans the globe, featuring popular uprisings, ecoterrorism, asymmetrical warfare, student debt strikes, and geoengineering. ![]() The Ministry is an exception to this tendency.Ī speculative history of the next few decades, the novel revolves around an international ministry assembled to help implement the Paris climate agreement. ![]() Rarely dealing with the transitional phase toward a better and different society, speculative fiction of this type instead explores the final stages of a utopian experiment. The Ministry for the Future is Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest attempt to fill in a major gap in the utopian fiction tradition. ![]()
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