Bien mais pas top
Une exploration intéressante du futur climatique de l'humanité, à la fois brutale et utopique.
J'ai été un peu rebuté par le style particulier d'écriture par contre.
French language
Published Oct. 24, 2023 by Bragelonne.
Le Ministère du futur
3 stars
(5 reviews)
L'auteur de science-fiction légendaire Kim Stanley Robinson nous propose une vision du changement climatique pareille à nulle autre.
Établi en 2025, l'objectif de la nouvelle organisation était simple : plaider pour les générations à venir du monde et protéger toutes les créatures vivantes, présentes et futures. Il fut vite surnommé « le Ministère du Futur ».
Raconté entièrement sous forme des témoignages directs de ses personnages, Le Ministère du Futur est un chef-d'oeuvre de l'imaginaire, l'histoire de la façon dont le changement climatique nous affectera tous dans les décennies à venir.
Le décor n'est pas un monde postapocalyptique et désolé, mais un avenir qui nous fonce dessus... et où il nous reste une petite chance de surmonter les défis extraordinaires auxquels nous devons faire face.
n_to reviewed The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Depressing 'coz it's an utopia
1 star
Nothing would play out like in this story. Robinson describes the best world imaginable. We are fucked.
(If you want to read a better take on our extinction read "Venomous Lumpsucker", it is funnier, because it is truer)
Oli reviewed Das Ministerium für die Zukunft by Kim Stanley Robinson
Langatmig und Bruchstückhaft
2 stars
Das Buch fängt aufrüttelnd an, verliert sich dann aber schnell zwischen Versatzstücken einer Welt in der Klimakatastrophe und einem Reiseführer für Zürich.
Viele Aspekte und Sichtweisen werden kurz aufgegriffen, dann aber einfach wieder fallengelassen. Stattdessen liegt der Fokus auf der endlosen Beschreibung eines Projektes in der Antarktis, unfruchtbaren Besprechungen mit Notenbanken und Beschreibungen der Schweiz.
Inhaltlich hätten es vermutlich auch 250 Seiten oder eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten aus einer Welt am Abgrund getan.
Dieses Buch muss man einfach lesen
5 stars
Von Barack Obama empfohlen!Indien, 2025. Das Land wird von einer gnadenlosen Hitzewelle heimgesucht, die Temperaturen erreichen mancherorts über 50 Grad. Hunderttausende Menschen sterben, manchmal werden ganze Stadtviertel ausgelöscht. Erschreckend nahe an der Wirklichkeit mit einem gnadenlos realistischen Ausblick auf unsere Zukunft.
Review of 'The Ministry for the Future' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This one was hard to score. I have ended up at 4 stars with caveats.
Stan uses the bones of his earlier works (in particular The Mars Trilogy) to speculate how we might get out of the coming climate apocalypse as a species. This is definitely important speculation and I like how he weaves a pile of different things together (finance reform, ubi, collectives, job guarantees, eco-engineering etc) to get there.
However, I found this a difficult read. It starts off strong with a single PoV of someone suffering through a mass death in a heatwave. Then it just loses the thread of human interest. The characterisation is presented in a very flat affect. It's difficult to relate to the characters because of this. As the book goes on the characters just take a back seat to laying out the events.
Further, he has a thing where he is dropping …
This one was hard to score. I have ended up at 4 stars with caveats.
Stan uses the bones of his earlier works (in particular The Mars Trilogy) to speculate how we might get out of the coming climate apocalypse as a species. This is definitely important speculation and I like how he weaves a pile of different things together (finance reform, ubi, collectives, job guarantees, eco-engineering etc) to get there.
However, I found this a difficult read. It starts off strong with a single PoV of someone suffering through a mass death in a heatwave. Then it just loses the thread of human interest. The characterisation is presented in a very flat affect. It's difficult to relate to the characters because of this. As the book goes on the characters just take a back seat to laying out the events.
Further, he has a thing where he is dropping little vignettes in. Some of these are for the purposes of explaining something but some just left me scratching my head. After about halfway I was prone to skimming these.
In summary a recommended strong ideas and speculation book but may be a difficult read due to being light on the character development progress side.