secondperson rated The Ministry for the Future: 3 stars

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to …
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Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to …

I've blazed through the first story "Unauthorized Bread." It truly feels like peak Doctorow, playing on all of his strengths in a compressed format that doesn't make room for some of his weaknesses. Really really enjoying it so far.
I've blazed through the first story "Unauthorized Bread." It truly feels like peak Doctorow, playing on all of his strengths in a compressed format that doesn't make room for some of his weaknesses. Really really enjoying it so far.
A well paced drama centering on the internal politics of a local newspaper and an aging reporter in the wake of an unexpected disaster.

Looking forward to November when this will be released!

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to …
A really strongly argued expression of the need to abandon GDP. Similar in nature to “Slow Down” by Kohei Saito but with a less academic framing (making it more approachable to people who aren’t Marxist scholars).

When a bitter dispute over her parents will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family …

The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a …

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize— winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the …
It starts out like an old-timey "King of the Hill." You've got your Hank (Call) your Dale (Gus) your Bill (Pea Eye) and Boomhauer (Jake). It's a lot of trash talking and joking around and cows. Then it gets pretty racist pretty fast (more than you might expect since it isn't actually of the period). It stays pretty racist for the remaining 75% of the book.
It starts out like an old-timey "King of the Hill." You've got your Hank (Call) your Dale (Gus) your Bill (Pea Eye) and Boomhauer (Jake). It's a lot of trash talking and joking around and cows. Then it gets pretty racist pretty fast (more than you might expect since it isn't actually of the period). It stays pretty racist for the remaining 75% of the book.