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2022/10/18 21:03
I've only read as far as the second chapter, but I'm really enjoying Neal Stephenson's "Termination Shock" (2021).
Kim Stanley Robinson's "Ministry of the Future" raised my hopes for a climate change novel. Who better to write such a novel than the author of "Red Mars"? That story had both compelling characters and geoengineering plot lines that seemed plausible (at least to this lay person). Alas, I could not really get invested in the characters in "Ministry". Robinson's ambition to tell a politically edifying story seemingly prevented him from writing a gripping one.
Stephenson is that goateed guy at your local dive bar who can really spin a yarn, if that guy had recently taken an interest in climate modeling, Sikhism, and the Dutch monarchy.