This is a climate book of a different kind: a fierce ride into the near future and a speculative roadmap to how humanity avoids climate disaster at five minutes to midnight. The story centres around the Ministry for the Future, a UN agency founded to ensure planetary health, and starts out with a nightmare scenario of 20 million people dying in an unprecedented heatwave in India, followed by desperate high-risk attempts of geoengineering and the emergence of a mysterious terrorist network called the “Children of Kali”. In 106 short chapters, sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson brings home how difficult it will be to get to a place of potential safety – and that we won’t get there without significant direct action, horrifying natural disasters, and a profound economic, political and cultural overhaul. It’s a rallying cry, following a holistic utopian narrative. #independentmagazine #indiepublishing #thelissome #lissomemagazine #climatefashionvision #cosmiccommons #slowfashion #sustainablefashion #sustainability #community #fashionfutures #scifi #scifibooks #bookstagram #booktok #readmore