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Framtidsministeriet

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Inbunden, Svenska, 2024

237 kr

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I Kim Stanley Robinsons cli-fi-roman från 2020, Framtidsministeriet, prövar han möjligheten till en positiv utgång på världens klimatproblematik. Det är en påläst och verklig skildring av de ofta mörka moraliska frågor vi behöver leva oss in i för att kunna vända utvecklingen.

Historien tar sin början vid en klimatkonferens i Bogota 2025, där 189 länder tillsammans formar en ny institution Framtidsministeriet, som ska företräda kommande generationers medborgare. Redan några månader senare ställs organisationen på prov efter en extrem värmebölja nära Indiens gräns mot Nepal. Katastrofen resulterar i miljontals döda och får politiska och ekonomiska följder världen över.

Men sakta men säkert sätts ett slags samhällsomvälvande maskineri i rullning. Läsaren får följa ett långsamt men ihärdigt förändringsarbete, som leder oss bort från användningen av fossila bränslen och överkonsumtion, och så småningom mot en större social och global rättvisa. Det är en process där våldet och ekoterroristernas agerande trots att det sker i berättelsens fond, har en avgörande betydelse för att tända gnistan.

Robinsons roman är idag redan en klassiker och måste-läsning för den känslomässiga förberedelse vi behöver för att gå vidare och inte minst för hoppet om vår gemensamma framtid.

"Robinsons bok behandlar ekoterrorism, storskalig manipulering av jordens klimat (geoengineering), asymmetrisk krigföring, ekologiskt jordbruk och penningpolitik. Den handlar om våld, makt, pengar. Det är oerhört befriande. (...) Men den bär en enorm rikedom av kunskap om ekonomi, politik, teknik och mänsklig psykologi. Den är krass och ofta rolig. Den är realistisk och därmed nattsvart. Den är hoppfull och visionär. (...) det är den viktigaste bok jag läst i år." Aftonbladet, Karin Pettersson

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"Om litteraturen har något berättigande i en allt varmare värld är det Robinson som visar vägen: den socialistiska klimatromanen är äntligen här." Aftonbladet, Andreas Malm

"Greppet att likställa naturkatastroferna med mänskliga våldsdåd och terrorattacker är effektfullt. Men mitt i misären finns det också en hoppfullhet i det arbete som krävs, och i romanen görs, för att rädda det som finns kvar av jorden och mänskligheten. Robinsons roman är relevant medryckande, och trots sitt omfång förvånansvärt tillgänglig." BTJ, Martin Dahlén

"en hoppingivande idéroman om modet att vara optimistisk. (...) Boken, som sträcker sig över flera decennier, kryllar av dylika mänskliga berättelser som tillsammans bildar ett kollektivt lapptäcke om ett liv i positiv förändring. 'Samhället finns inte', sa Margaret Thatcher. 'Framtidsministeriet' visar att Järnladyn hade fått saker om bakfoten." Göteborgs-Posten, Oscar Westerholm

"När en roman är sexhundra sidor lång frågar man sig gärna om längden är motiverad. Här är svaret faktiskt ja. (...) Kanske är det också kittlingen i att ändå välja hopp som trots allt gör Framtidsministeriet till nödvändig läsning." SvD, Per Klingberg

"en modern klassiker inom klimatfiktionen (...). Det rör sig alltså om en bildande roman, med ett kalejdoskop av olika perspektiv på jordens framtid. Ändå är den inte svårläst, särskilt inte i Nika Abiris lättdruckna översättning - en bragd med tanke på romanens längd och myllret av fackuttryck." Aftonbladet, Jerry Määttä

"Klimatforskningens byråkrater möter eko-terrorism i denna moderna Cli-Fi-roman. Tung läsning. Men väl värd att ta sig igenom." Bokboxen, Årets bästa böcker 2024, Johan Zillén

"det inledande kapitlet (är) ett slag i magen (...). Den här tegelstenen, som berättas ur flera människors perspektiv, är både en hoppfull idéroman och en väldigt konkret skildring av åtgärder som faktiskt skulle kunna bromsa in klimatkrisen." Bokmässans programchef Oskar Ekström, tre favoriter ur 2024 års utgivning

The Years of Rice and Salt

A Novel

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

283 kr

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WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD • The bestselling author of the Mars trilogy boldly reimagines the past seven hundred years in this “exceptional and engrossing” (New York Post) saga, constructing a world vastly different from the one we know. . . “A thoughtful, magisterial alternate history from one of science fiction’s most important writers.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIt is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur—the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe’s population was destroyed. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? The Years of Rice and Salt is a look at the history that could have been—one that stretches across centuries, sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, and spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation.Through the eyes of soldiers and kings, explorers and philosophers, inventors and exiles, renowned storyteller Kim Stanley Robinson navigates a world where Buddhism and Islam are the most influential and practiced religions, while Christianity is a mere historical footnote. Probing the most profound questions as only he can, Robinson shines his extraordinary light on the place of religion, culture, power—and even love—in this bold new world.

Ministry for the Future

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

142 kr

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ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE READS OF THE YEAR 'If I could get policymakers and citizens everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future' Ezra Klein, Vox 'A great read' Bill GatesThe 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. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year, this extraordinary novel from visionary writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis.'A novel that presents a rousing vision of how we might unite to overcome the greatest challenge of our time' TED.com'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 review)'Gutsy, humane . . . a must-read for anyone worried about the future of the planet' Publishers Weekly (starred review)'A sweeping epic about climate change and humanity's efforts to try and turn the tide before it's too late' Polygon (Best of the Year)'Steely, visionary optimism' Guardian

Red Mars

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

169 kr

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The first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson’s massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. ‘The ultimate in future history’ Daily MailMars – the barren, forbidding planet that epitomises mankind’s dreams of space conquest.From the first pioneers who looked back at Earth and saw a small blue star, to the first colonists – hand-picked scientists with the skills necessary to create life from cold desert – Red Mars is the story of a new genesis.It is also the story of how Man must struggle against his own self-destructive mechanisms to achieve his dreams: before he even sets foot on the red planet, factions are forming, tensions are rising and violence is brewing… for civilization can be very uncivilized.

Aurora

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

142 kr

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'What a saga! Scifi with honest, complex humanity, physics, biology, sociology' - Tom Hanks'Aurora is a magnificent piece of writing, certainly Robinson's best novel since his mighty Mars trilogy, perhaps his best ever' - GuardianOur voyage from Earth began generations ago. Now, we approach our destination. A new home. Aurora.Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, Aurora is the work of a writer at the height of his powers.'An accessible novel packed with big ideas, wonders, jeopardy and, at the end, a real emotional punch' SFX'Aurora is Robinson's best book yet . . . Heart-wrenching, provocative' Scientific American'Kim Stanley Robinson is one of science fiction's greats' Sunday TimesNovels by Kim Stanley Robinson:IcehengeThe Memory of WhitenessA Short, Sharp ShockAntarcticaThe Years of Rice and SaltGalileo's Dream2312ShamanAuroraNew York 2140Red Moon

Years of Rice and Salt

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

282 kr

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The Great Plague destroyed Europe. Now the world’s a different place … From the award-winning author of the Mars trilogy, ‘the ultimate in future history’ (Daily Mail), comes the most ambitious alternate history novel ever written.As Bold Bardash, a horseman in the army of Temur the Lame, rides west across the steppe and on to the Magyar Plain, he comes across a town in which everyone lies dead. Long dead. Plague has struck Europe. Kali’s black blanket has fallen over the lands of the West and nothing will ever be the same again.Into this empty land pour the opportunists: the merchants, slavers and warlords. The Chinese cross the oceans in their huge fleets; the Arabs traverse the deserts by camel and mule and the mediterranean by dhow. The last Europeans are killed or enslaved – consigned to the seraglios of the sultans. So die the ancestors of Da Vinci and Copernicus; Columbus and Machiavelli; the Spanish Inquisition and the Conquistators; Shakespeare, Newton and the Pilgrim Fathers; Einstein and Hitler. And the world becomes a different place.In this extraordinarily ambitious, poetic and powerful novel, Kim Stanley Robinson takes us on a journey through seven hundred years of history as it never was, but might have been.

2312

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

139 kr

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'Kim Stanley Robinson is one of science fiction's greats . . . fans of the Mars books will delight in this novel; new readers will be astonished by the depth, breadth and power of Robinson's invention' - SUNDAY TIMES'Polymathic, visionary brilliance' - FINANCIAL TIMESWinner of the 2013 Nebula Award for Best NovelThe year is 2312. Scientific advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer our only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system, on moons, planets and in between. But in 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront our past, present and future. The first event takes place on Mercury, in the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. For Swan Er Hong, it will change her life. Once a designer of worlds, now Swan will be led into a plot to destroy them. 2312 is a bold vision of humanity's future and a compelling portrait of those individuals who will shape its events.Novels by Kim Stanley Robinson:IcehengeThe Memory of WhitenessA Short, Sharp ShockAntarcticaThe Years of Rice and SaltGalileo's Dream2312ShamanAuroraNew York 2140Red Moon

The Ministry for the Future

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

279 kr

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Green Mars

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

169 kr

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The second novel in Kim Stanley Robinson’s massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. ‘The ultimate in future history’ Daily MailMars can be plundered – for the benefit of a ravaged Earth. It can be terraformed to suit Man’s needs – frozen lakes form, lichen grows, the atmosphere slowly becomes breathable. But most importantly, Mars can be owned. On Earth, countries are bought and sold by the transnationals. Why not Mars too?Man’s dream is underway, but so is his greatest test. The survivors of the First Hundred – Hiroko, Nadia, Maya and Simon among them – know that technology alone is not enough. Trust and co-operation are need to create a new world – but these qualities are as thin on the ground as the air they breathe.

Blue Mars

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

169 kr

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The final novel in Kim Stanley Robinson’s massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. ‘The ultimate in future history’ Daily MailMars has grown upIt is fully terraformed – genetically engineered plants and animals live by newly built canals and young but stormy seas.It is politically independent. A brave and buzzing new world. Most of the First Hundred have died. Those that remain are like walking myths to Martian youth.Earth has grown too muchChronic overpopulation, bitter nationalism, scarce resources. For too many Terrans, Mars is a mocking utopia. A dream to live for, fight for… perhaps even die for.

The Years of Rice and Salt

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

131 kr

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Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

181 kr

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New York 2140

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

142 kr

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NOMINATED FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2018'A towering novel' - Guardian'Relevant and essential' - Bloomberg BusinessweekAs the sea level rose, every street became a canal, every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city. New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson delivers a bold and brilliant vision of New York in the next century.'New York may be underwater but it's better than ever' - New Yorker 'Massively enjoyable' - Washington Post'Gripping . . . so hard to put down' - Business Insider 'A document of hope as much as dread' - Los Angeles Review of Books Novels by Kim Stanley Robinson:IcehengeThe Memory of WhitenessA Short, Sharp ShockAntarcticaThe Years of Rice and SaltGalileo's Dream2312ShamanAuroraNew York 2140Red Moon

Icehenge

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

168 kr

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At the north pole of the planet Pluto there stands an icehenge created out of slabs towering 200 feet above the crater-pocked surface. The first mission to Pluto must ask themselves, is it an alien message? Or could it mark a human mystery left by a crew who might have passed decades ago?

Martians

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

206 kr

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A glorious companion volume to Robinson’s world-wide bestselling trilogy.All Colours MarsRed Mars. Green Mars. Blue Mars.The Mars trilogy has rapidly assumed the status of modern science fiction classic, capturing the imagination of hundreds of thousands of readers around the world. Now, with The Martians, comes Kim Stanley Robinson’s essential companion to the Mars series. New novellas and short stories head the collection, along with texts on the Martian constitution, maps and Martian inspired poetry.In short, The Martians is a unique collection of previously unpublished fiction, a fascinating addition to Robinson’s oeuvre, and a must for all lovers of the red planet.

Forty Signs of Rain

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

156 kr

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It's hot in Washington. No sign of rain. The world's climates are changing, catastrophe beckons, but no one in power is noticing. Yet. Tom Wolfe meets Michael Crichton in this highly topical, witty and entertaining science thriller.When the Arctic ice pack was first measured in the 1950s, it averaged thirty feet thick in midwinter. By the end of the century it was down to fifteen. One August the ice broke. The next year the break-up started in July. The third year, it began in May.That was last year.It's an increasingly steamy summer in America's capital as environmental policy advisor Charlie Quibler cares for his young son, and deals with the frustrating politics of global warming. According to the President and his science advisor Dr S, the weather isn’t important! But Charlie must find a way to get a sceptical administration to act before it's too late – and his progeny find themselves living in Swamp World.Just arrived in Washington to lobby the Senate for aid is an embassy from Khembalung, a sinking island nation in the Bay of Bengal. Charlie's wife Anna, director of bioinformatics at the National Science Foundation and well known for her hyperrational intensity, is entranced by the Khembalis. By contrast, her colleague, Frank Vanderwal, is equally cynical about the Buddhists and the NSF.The profound effect the Khembali ambassador has on both Charlie and Frank could never have been predicted – unlike the abrupt, catastrophic climate change which is about to transform everything.Forty Signs of Rain is an unforgettable tale of survival which captures a world where even the innocent pattern of rainfall resounds with the destiny of the biosphere.

Fifty Degrees Below

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

156 kr

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Kim Stanley Robinson is at his visionary best in this gripping cautionary tale of progress and its price as our world faces catastrophic climate change – the sequel to Forty Signs of Rain.Frank Vanderwal of the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC has been living a paleolithic lifestyle in a tree house in Rock Creek Park ever since a big flood of the Potomac destroyed his apartment block. The flood was just the beginning. It heralded a lot of bad-weather news. Now the Gulf Stream has shut down and the Antarctic ice sheet is melting.The good news is that Frank is part of an international effort by the National Science Foundation to restabilize Earth's climate. He understands the necessity for out-of-the-box thinking and he refuses to feel helpless before the indifference of the politicians and capitalists who run America.The bad news is that Frank has fallen in love – with a woman who is not who she seems. He discovers that their first meeting was no accident: he was on a list all along! Her ulterior motive is political and she expects Frank to spy for her. And thus Frank is drawn into the world of Homeland Security, and other, blacker Washington security agencies as the presidential election year heats up.Then suddenly it's winter …It's winter like the ice age, fifty degrees below. As hellish conditions disrupt the lives of even the most important people, there is a convergence of meteorological and human events with Frank at the centre – catastrophe is in the air. This unforgettable story from the master of alternate and future history brings tomorrow into new focus with startling effect.

Sixty Days and Counting

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

169 kr

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In his first sixty days, President Phil Chase intends to prove he can change the world and solve climate change. A highly topical, witty and entertaining science thriller – the follow-up to Forty Days of Rain and Fifty Degrees Below.Frank Vanderwal, in the office of Presidential science advisor, finds something reassuring about the world being so messed up. It makes his own life look like part of a trend. He's been homeless for a year, the ex-husband of the love of his life did permanent injury to his nose – probably his brain – with a punch, and the love of his life has had to go into hiding from the secret service, which has Frank under surveillance, too … but meanwhile there's the world to save. Frank's a scientist. He has to save the world so that science can proceed, obviously. This has become known as the Frank Principle.China is close to meltdown, the security agencies are in overdrive, carbon figures are close to cooking the world … and the team has sixty days to establish a new reality.

Galileo’s Dream

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

170 kr

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The dazzling novel from the acclaimed author of the groundbreaking MARS trilogy follows Galileo on an amazing journey from the dawn of the modern world to a future on the verge of a completely new scientific breakthrough.Late Renaissance Italy abounds in alchemy and Aristotle, yet it trembles on the brink of the modern world. Galileo’s new telescope encapsulates all the contradictions of this emerging reality. Then one night a stranger presents a different type of telescope for Galileo to peer through, enabling him to see the world of humans three thousand years hence.Galileo will soon find himself straddling two worlds, the medieval and the modern. By day his life unfurls in early seventeenth century Italy; by night he is transported through dimensions of time and space no other man of his time could possibly comprehend. Inexorably, Galileo faces trial for religious crimes in his own time, while in the new world he discovers, where science assures men that they can perform wonders, but does not tell them what wonders to perform, he is revered.This sumptuous, gloriously thought-provoking and suspenseful novel recalls Robinson's magnificent Mars books as well as bringing to us Galileo as we have always wanted to know him.

Antarctica

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

231 kr

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Antarctica… Our last wilderness. But for how long? A topical future history thriller from the worldwide bestselling author of the Mars series.Like the land it protects, the Antarctic Treaty is dissolving. The world’s last unstripped asset, Antarctica is in danger of becoming a free-for-all – oil reconnaissance teams intent on mass extraction, adventure travellers trailing waste across the tundra, and multi-national interests covertly vying for influence. But a new radical environmentalist group is determined to show humanity that Antarctica cannot be plundered like the rest of the world. Whatever it takes…Antarctica: an eco-thriller, a romance, and a passionate study of a desolate continent. Against a majestic backdrop, multi-award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson paints his latest big picture by focusing on the personal triumphs and tragedies of the innocents, the activists, and the ruthless exploiters who are fighting their version of the future for Earth’s last great wilderness.

Green Earth

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

239 kr

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GREEN EARTH takes the stories first told in FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN, FIFTY DEGREES BELOW and SIXTY DAYS AND COUNTING and combines them in a fully updated, compressed and compelling single volume.Catastrophe is in the air. Increasingly strange weather events are pummelling the Earth. When the Gulf Stream shuts down and the Antarctic ice sheet starts melting, climate extremes multiply, and some winters hit like an ice age.New U.S. President Phil Chase is on a mission: he’s determined to solve climate change. His science advisor, Frank Vanderwal, is a bit more messed up. When massive floods hit Washington, Frank finds himself living in a treehouse and in love with a woman who’s definitely not what she seems, one who will draw him into the shadowy world of Homeland Security, and other, blacker agencies.Only science can save the day. Frank knows he has to find a way to save the world so that science can proceed.

Memory of Whiteness

AvKim Stanley Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

273 kr

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In the year 3229 AD, when the best and sometimes only means of communication through music, Johannes Wright, master Musician, and his friends and enemies journey toward an understanding of the Universe.