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This is a great interview with Kim Stanley Robinson in which he discusses the necessity to imagine the end of capitalism rather than the end of the world. https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/kim-stanley-robinson-ministry-future-science-fiction/
A lot of people write science fiction. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the best. This is a great interview with Robert Markley about his work. https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/kim-stanley-robinson-socialist-novelist
"Science fiction at its best, particularly in Robinson’s work, gives voice to collective hopes, fears, and dreams. His novels describe a new realism for a technologically dynamic, politically adrift, and environmentally semi-devastated world."
Always happy to tweet about Kim Stanley Robinson!
"A conversation with the acclaimed sci-fi novelist about the climate crisis, activism, utopia, and his new novel, The Ministry for the Future." https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/qa-kim-stanley-robinson/
"A conversation with the acclaimed sci-fi novelist about the climate crisis, activism, utopia, and his new novel, The Ministry for the Future." https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/qa-kim-stanley-robinson/
"Climate fiction is less fictitious speculation than an attempt to envision a near future that we are likely to inhabit. It’s an attempt to take our present — and thus the future we’re ensuring — more seriously than we do." https://www.vox.com/2020/11/30/21726563/kim-stanley-robinson-the-ezra-klein-show-climate-change?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
"Robinson wants to try to envision something harder: the possibility of a workable utopia that can be something more than science fiction, a world whose ample but finite resources are used wisely for the good of all." https://link.medium.com/EJtY4UtBPbb
KSR's The Ministry helps open our minds to a world in transition away from capitalism to a post-capitalism. Brilliant thread about the novel by a brilliant writer. https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1334357806770573312
