The Ministry for the Future”: A reading and conversation with science-fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson
During this unique one-hour event, acclaimed American science-fiction writer Mr. Kim Stanley Robinson will read excerpts of his best-selling novel “The Ministry for the Future”. The following Q&A session, moderated by Ms. Nanette Braun, Director of Public Infornation at the Department of Global Communications, will address the power of literature and imagination in harnessing the future.?The author will be signing books at the end of the talk.
Contact: Klara Wyrzykowska?klara.wyrzykowska@un.org?
Details:
Event: 11:30 - 12:30, Saturday 21 September, UN Bookshop, GA Building, Visitors’ concourse
Kim Stanley Robinson?is an American science fiction writer.? He is the author of about twenty books, including the internationally bestselling Mars trilogy, and more recently?Red Moon, New York 2140,?and?The Ministry for the Future.? He was part of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program in 1995 and 2016, and a featured speaker at COP-26 in Glasgow, as a guest of the UK government and the UN.??? His work has been translated into 29 languages, and won awards including the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards.? In 2016 asteroid 72432 was named “Kimrobinson.”?
About The Ministry for the Future. In 2025, In 2025, following a devastating heat wave, the Ministry for the Future advocates for the world’s future generations of citizens. From her office in Zurich to Antarctica, the novel’s protagonist Ms. Mary Murphy, a former foreign minister of Ireland, navigates the complexities of bureaucracies and institutions to convince world powers of the urgency of climate change and the need for urgent action.
