The Ministry for the Future

Sobre o livro

The Ministry for the Future is a climate fiction novel by American science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, published in 2020. Set in the near future, the novel follows a subsidiary body, established under the Paris Agreement, whose mission is to act as an advocate for the world's future generations of citizens as if their rights were as valid as the present generation's. While the ministry pursues various ambitious projects, the effects of climate change are determined to be the most consequential. The plot primarily follows Mary Murphy, the head of the titular Ministry for the Future, and Frank May, an American aid worker traumatized by experiencing a deadly heat wave in India. Many chapters are devoted to other characters' accounts of future events, as well as their ideas about ecology, economics, and other subjects.

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As fontes têm média 7,3 em 347 avaliações — ainda poucas, então o voto dos leitores carrega 70% do peso e o restante puxa para a média de Ficção científica, 7,8. É assim que sai 7,4.

Vozes dos leitores

As resenhas mais curtidas no Hardcover (com crédito aos autores).

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  “I'd classify The Ministry for the Future as an essential read. In my view, no other book captures the current crisis facing humanity as effectively as this one, nor presents potential solutions as compellingly. Spanning the 2020s, 2030s, and 2040s, Robinson vividly portrays the apocalyptic…”

  ★ 5/5laithd no Hardcover

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