{"product_id":"the-ministry-for-the-future-paperback","title":"The Ministry for the Future - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKim Stanley Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I've ever read.\" --Jonathan Lethem \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson's \u003ci\u003eThe Ministry for the Future.\u003c\/i\u003e\" --Ezra Klein (\u003ci\u003eVox\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ministry for the Future \u003c\/i\u003eis 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, postapocalyptic 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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.\"―\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If there's any book that hit me hard this year, it was Kim Stanley Robinson's \u003ci\u003eThe Ministry for the Futur\u003c\/i\u003ee, a sweeping epic about climate change and humanity's efforts to try and turn the tide before it's too late.\" ―\u003ci\u003ePolygon\u003c\/i\u003e (Best of the Year) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Masterly.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eThe Ministry for the Future\u003c\/i\u003e] 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.\" --\u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom.\" ―\u003ci\u003eBloomberg Green\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKim Stanley Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e is a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eForty Signs of Rain\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Years of Rice and Salt\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e2312\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2008, he was named a \"Hero of the Environment\" by \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 576\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.58 x 8.3 x 5.57 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 19, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45085091856560,"sku":"9780316300148","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1121\/0060\/files\/OFZLWldmY210bGpsbVN4cnliRkxtdz09.webp?v=1777996833","url":"https:\/\/sidekicksptown.com\/products\/the-ministry-for-the-future-paperback","provider":"Sidekicks Ptown","version":"1.0","type":"link"}