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Near Futures with Kim Stanley Robinson

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The as Trilogy - The Operator

As a novelist, i can write about characters who are political operatives. I find myself fractionting out into what's how wid that manifest and in real behaviour. In the as trilogy, the guide, trying to connect everybody up,. There's also, frank, trying to connected everybody up in a more machiavellian way. And yes, indeed, a ministry for the future. It becomes about, what do these people do? Because they're not scientists, and i suppose they're politicians, but often their appointments are like civil servants. So what do they do in terms of organizing efforts? And can they be agents? What can their agency as such, be expressed in positive political action

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