Kim Stanley Robinson article in The New Yorker

I thought some of you might find this interesting:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/can-science-fiction-wake-us-up-to-...

Thanks for that. I enjoyed it. It made me think I should bring Aurora into my TBR pile.

Thanks for sharing that. I need to move Ministry for the future up my TBR pile.

The last of his books I read,New York 2140, had a main character who was a "market trader" who dealt in flooded/soon to be flooded global properties. I was surprised when I read an article about a company who does that about a year ago.

:edit:: ...forgot to mention it is a good article, it provides insight into KSR's biography that I was not familiar with. I don't think I would (or could) go on one of his hikes however ;-)

>2 paradoxosalpha: I did not enjoy Aurora. Too pessimistic and ultimately pointless.

As I was reflecting on the gloss the interviewer gave Aurora, it sounded like a sort of "hard" version of the goofy interstellar epilog in Don't Look Up. The fact that it riled fans is something of an attraction, though, I have to admit (although I am one).

His Mars trilogy is still in my TBR pile. I must get to it. After I make my way through Corey’s The Expanse!

I loved the Mars trilogy (and I still need to read The Martians), but I liked The Years of Rice and Salt even better.

>1 Neil_Luvs_Books: Thanks for sharing this which I just read now. I am about half-way through The Ministry for the Future and I thought it was time to check in with KSR. What a great writer he is.

Thanks for posting that. I'll be reading Ministry for the Future soon, as it was just made this month's selection in my monthly reading group.

There's also a podcast with a similar title:
https://www.ted.com/talks/your_undivided_attention_how_science_fiction_can_shape...

>11 rork: 👍