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CW: Book Review for Endling - Chapter 1
#Endling Chapter 1 - this is not a light read. But the book has the potential to be interesting and with a good setup of the protagonist. I hope it doesn't get even darker in chapter 2. Many snails have perished. Endling - good term for a species going extinct, that I'll remember. Despite all the misery I enjoy reading about people devoting their life to science, something I was sure I would do and then didn't.
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The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson
The book is a hopeful piece of climate change fiction. It follows the titular ministry created under the UN that struggles to reign in capitalism in order to avert disaster. One of many such ideas the ministry implements is creating a decentralized social media platform to grapple power back from tech giants (wow, what a wonderful idea). I haven't heard of many of the interesting ideas in the book and had to repeatedly write them down to research later. I don't agree with some of the compromises in the book but would still highly recommend. Apparently it was on Obama's 2020 book list, which I found wild as a major point in the book is climate activists repeatedly blowing up airplanes with rich people on them until the world switched to cleaner modes of travel
If you do end up liking the book, I'd also suggest the same author's Mars trilogy. I myself am starting the third book and enjoying the crossover of ideas
submitted by: @[email protected]
Genres: Climate fiction
#bookstodon #books #climate-fiction #the-ministry-for-the-future #fedi-bookclub -
The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson
The book is a hopeful piece of climate change fiction. It follows the titular ministry created under the UN that struggles to reign in capitalism in order to avert disaster. One of many such ideas the ministry implements is creating a decentralized social media platform to grapple power back from tech giants (wow, what a wonderful idea). I haven't heard of many of the interesting ideas in the book and had to repeatedly write them down to research later. I don't agree with some of the compromises in the book but would still highly recommend. Apparently it was on Obama's 2020 book list, which I found wild as a major point in the book is climate activists repeatedly blowing up airplanes with rich people on them until the world switched to cleaner modes of travel
If you do end up liking the book, I'd also suggest the same author's Mars trilogy. I myself am starting the third book and enjoying the crossover of ideas
submitted by: @[email protected]
Genres: Climate fiction
#bookstodon #books #climate-fiction #the-ministry-for-the-future #fedi-bookclub -
The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson
The book is a hopeful piece of climate change fiction. It follows the titular ministry created under the UN that struggles to reign in capitalism in order to avert disaster. One of many such ideas the ministry implements is creating a decentralized social media platform to grapple power back from tech giants (wow, what a wonderful idea). I haven't heard of many of the interesting ideas in the book and had to repeatedly write them down to research later. I don't agree with some of the compromises in the book but would still highly recommend. Apparently it was on Obama's 2020 book list, which I found wild as a major point in the book is climate activists repeatedly blowing up airplanes with rich people on them until the world switched to cleaner modes of travel
If you do end up liking the book, I'd also suggest the same author's Mars trilogy. I myself am starting the third book and enjoying the crossover of ideas
submitted by: @[email protected]
Genres: Climate fiction
#bookstodon #books #climate-fiction #the-ministry-for-the-future #fedi-bookclub -
The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson
The book is a hopeful piece of climate change fiction. It follows the titular ministry created under the UN that struggles to reign in capitalism in order to avert disaster. One of many such ideas the ministry implements is creating a decentralized social media platform to grapple power back from tech giants (wow, what a wonderful idea). I haven't heard of many of the interesting ideas in the book and had to repeatedly write them down to research later. I don't agree with some of the compromises in the book but would still highly recommend. Apparently it was on Obama's 2020 book list, which I found wild as a major point in the book is climate activists repeatedly blowing up airplanes with rich people on them until the world switched to cleaner modes of travel
If you do end up liking the book, I'd also suggest the same author's Mars trilogy. I myself am starting the third book and enjoying the crossover of ideas
submitted by: @[email protected]
Genres: Climate fiction
#bookstodon #books #climate-fiction #the-ministry-for-the-future #fedi-bookclub -
The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson
The book is a hopeful piece of climate change fiction. It follows the titular ministry created under the UN that struggles to reign in capitalism in order to avert disaster. One of many such ideas the ministry implements is creating a decentralized social media platform to grapple power back from tech giants (wow, what a wonderful idea). I haven't heard of many of the interesting ideas in the book and had to repeatedly write them down to research later. I don't agree with some of the compromises in the book but would still highly recommend. Apparently it was on Obama's 2020 book list, which I found wild as a major point in the book is climate activists repeatedly blowing up airplanes with rich people on them until the world switched to cleaner modes of travel
If you do end up liking the book, I'd also suggest the same author's Mars trilogy. I myself am starting the third book and enjoying the crossover of ideas
submitted by: @[email protected]
Genres: Climate fiction
#bookstodon #books #climate-fiction #the-ministry-for-the-future #fedi-bookclub