书籍 The Ministry for the Future的封面

The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson

出版社

Orbit

出版时间

2020-10-06

ISBN

9780316300131

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍

From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades.

The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us -- and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face.

It is a novel both immediate and impactful, desperate and hopeful in equal measure, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written.

"A breathtaking look at the challenges that face our planet in all their sprawling magnitude and also in their intimate, individual moments of humanity." -- Booklist (starred)

"A sweeping, optimistic portrait of humanity's ability to cooperate in the face of disaster. This heartfelt work of hard science-fiction is a must-read for anyone worried about the future of the planet." -- Publishers Weekly (starred)

Kim Stanley Robinson is a bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt, and 2312. In 2008, he was named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research I...

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奥巴马推荐的,从小说的角度来说不是个好小说,线索太多,然后很多章节是作者自己的呓语,或者叫絮叨,但因为气候变化这个主题目前在西方是绝对正确,你敢说不对立马就能有人冲上来扇你嘴巴子,尤其是年轻人。个别段落很有意思,耐人寻味。比如说在未来某一刻,所有国家汇报的碳排放量都下降了,但是全球总体却在上升。任何一个在中国生活过的同学都明白,那就是个数据啊,领导让你报多少就报多少呗,你指望着那一堆破数据就能救世界,too young too simple.
作者真的出了名的跨学科百科全书,小说里涵盖经济、社会学、心理学、政治学内容。这本小说的视角和多人称叙事手法也很有新颖,但真的完完全全败在文笔上,令人难以下咽的文笔…
关于气候变化的科幻小说。开篇关于印度lethal heat wave事件的描述很棒,很容易让人共情。之后的故事,关于政治方面的情节在我看来有些偏多了,还是更希望能读到一些技术或是商业模式上的畅想。总体还是值得一读。
写过论文后再读KSR,像遇见一个老朋友,你开始熟悉他的语言和癖好,在字里行间看到上一本书的影子。我很喜欢一些KSR和Ambrose Bierce结合的瞬间,他永远压不住自己跳出来指点江山撒播意识形态的冲动。一个西马乌托邦作家,我永远感动于他的辛辣讽刺和学究气。读到他讲意识形态和structure of feeling的地方直接笑出声。 Mary和Art的故事出乎意料地打动我。人和人之间,有几个moments也许就足够了吧。
way to skull fuck the reader in the first 12 pages... 五星预定了先 拖拖拉拉终于看完了… 后劲儿有点不足,但是整体很绝很推荐,看完抬起头来看看周围世界觉得穿越回从前
一个PTSD的climate terrorist和一个本来无作为的climate politician类似于斯德哥尔摩症候群的纠葛,引出这个本来是空壳公司的ministry of the future如何在未来五十年扭转历史的过程。技术上并没有太大的脑洞,都是我们现在已有的技术。不过书里提出了很多从财政上的手段很有意思。比如Carbon quantitative easing,carbon coin。书里描述的很多灾难场景也是栩栩如生。不过这部书太过冗长,有很多不大相干的内容和讨论分散了书的主题,比如对于refugees的大量个人描写,还有Maria 作为minister被数次恐袭之后的避难过程。以及大陆政治体制的讨论。