A Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson: Ministry for the Future and the Climate Crisis

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Kim Stanley Robinson is the award-winning author of 22 novels and numerous short stories exploring themes of ecological sustainability, economic and social justice, global politics, and big science. In recent years, Robinson has written extensively on the climate crisis, best known in these three science fictions: 2312, New York City 2140, and Ministry for the Future. Barack Obama called Ministry for the Future, published in 2020, one of his favorite books of the year. The New York Review of Books proclaimed: “One hopes that this book is read widely—that Robinson’s audience, already large, grows by an order of magnitude. Because the point of his books is to fire the imagination.”

Robinson is a long-time Californian, growing up in Southern California, studying at UC San Diego and living now in Davis. His latest book is The High Sierra: A Love Story (2022).

He will be in dialogue with Jonathan Alexander, Chancellor's Professor of English and Informatics, the Director of Humanities Core (theme of the cycle "Worldbuilding"), and a three-time recipient of the Ellen Nold Award for Best Articles in the field of Computers and Composition Studies. His latest book is Writing and Desire: Queer Ways of Composing (2023).

Co-sponsors: Forum for the Academy and the Public, Illuminations, Humanities Core, Literary Journalism Program, History Department.

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