Bud Werner Memorial Library in Steamboat Springs, Colorado invites you to spend an evening with Kim Stanley Robinson talking about The Ministry for the Future,  his cli-fi novel that has been selected as this year's One Book Steamboat community read.

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. This extraordinary novel from visionary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis.  Learn more

A speaker at the UN’s COP-26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (November 1-12, 2021), Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller 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. Notable works include anessay recently published in The Financial Times, A climate plan for a world in flames, his cli-fi book The Ministry for the Future and an insightful talk Rethinking our Relationship with the Biosphere. In 2008, he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California.

One Book Steamboat Author Event: Kim Stanley Robinson