#ScifiMonth2025 Ministry for the Future (CliFi)
Finish date: 08.11.2025
Genre: SciFi (climate change: “Clifi”)
Rating: F
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Good News: I finished it ….but it was too long and a chore to read.
Bad News: Structure: chapter rotation, we hopped from solar radiation with people boiling in a lake, PTSD activist, Geneva to open the Ministry of the Future the off to Glasgow Scotland! That is just a small intro to the book. It was messy, chaotic and just not worth my reading time. (…but you may like it!)
Bad News: Close to half the chapters are just information dumps. (..skimmed these chapters) that add nothing to the narrative.
Personal: I read that Kim Stanley Robinson is considered to be one of the best living authors of Science Fiction. Says who? (…essayist in The New Yorker). I beg to differ. I’ve read better science fiction by Le Guin, Andy Wier, N. K. Jemisin, Ann Leckie, Martha Wells and Connie Willis.
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First, I was shocked to see an F, as it was on my TBR.
But I looked more closely at your reasons for it, and found that other readers also complain about that.
In fact, none of his novels reach 4 stars on Goodreads!
So out of my TBR, thank you for that.
You don’t have to take my word for it…try the book, perhaps you will like it!
I do trust your opinion, and as I said, apparently other readers had the same reaction
Kim Robinson is pas his prime…there are better climate change writers out there!