The novel is good for thinking by way of thick texture, imaginative scenarios where you put yourself in other people's brains. The whole world is a eight billion person collaboration. That is no reason that itsu succeed as well as it does. So the novel has to especially the utopian novel, has to walk a tight rope that is extremely a narrow between plausibility and reality.
Kim Stanley Robinson on science fiction, climate crisis, Marxism, geo-engineering, political violence, green Keynesianism, and a lot more. Interviewed by guest host Daniel Aldana Cohen, who read 11 of Robinson’s books during the pandemic quarantine, running from Red Mars through The Ministry for the Future.
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