Kim Stanley Robinson won’t read aloud his climate disaster scene from ‘The Ministry for the Future’
Author Kim Stanley Robinson refuses to read the first chapter of his novel 'The Ministry for the Future' during public events. The opening depicts a deadly heat wave disaster. Robinson has completed over 600 speaking engagements since the book was published in 2020.
NEW YORK (AP) — Kim Stanley Robinson, author of one of the most famous novels on climate change, says he has done more than 600 speaking events since “The Ministry for the Future” was published in 2020 — but he won’t read the first chapter out loud. In those opening pages, a prolonged heat wave...
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