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The Ministry for the Future

By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, Gary Bennett, Raphael Corkhill, Barrie Kreinik, Natasha Soudek, Nikki Massoud, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Inés del Castillo, Vikas Adam
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Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favourite reads of 2020

Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organisation was simple: to advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future, and this is its story.

From legendary science-fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined.

Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades to come.

Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us - and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face.

It is a novel both immediate and impactful, desperate and hopeful in equal measure, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written.

©2020 Kim Stanley Robinson (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK Science Fiction Fiction Thought-Provoking Socialism
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Such an excellent researched book - a how to change human history to try and lessen the oncoming disaster that are children will suffer.

This is a treatise masked as Fiction that should be regarded like 1984. Only Peter F. Hamilton (Book 2 Night's Dawn and Fallen Dragon) has been to me as effective as Kim Stanley Robinson for me in the past.

A must read.

A Bible for the Climate Change End Game

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Ok voice acting, although too bad the author decided to ignore the current progress in climate programs.

Interesting scenario on what could happen

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thought provoking epic looking at how we can save humanity on Earth - and it's not by continuing how we currently do things.

our future?

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Great book, with a wealth of knowledge sourced from political, economic, cultural and scientific insights. Sometimes, I missed a strong story arch of characters. But I would recommend this book to all.

Hopeful, urgent and full of tools to create a better future

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Voice acting was incredibly cringey and difficult to listen to for a lot of the book. The story itself is also quite poorly written with a sprinkling of unrealistic ideas

Hard to listen to

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