Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1The Ministry for the Future (2020)The Ministry for the Future (2020) 6.9/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2020Robinson makes a new international institution's work part of the drama, asking how finance, technology, public pressure and everyday lives might combine to change a dangerous trajectory. The opening heat catastrophe is harrowing, but the novel keeps looking for organised responses. Read it for an…0
  2. 2New York 2140 (2017)New York 2140 (2017) 7.6/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2017Manhattan's streets have become canals, yet people still maintain buildings, make a living and dispute who should benefit from valuable land. Following one apartment building gives the larger economic system a useful local address. This is a substantial, digressive novel for readers willing to…0
  3. 3Great Transition (2023)Great Transition (2023) 6.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2023A generation born after a massive climate mobilisation inherits both its achievements and its unsettled arguments. A daughter's search for her mother lets Googins move between the work of transition and the society that remembers it. The Greenland and New York settings make relocation and…0
  4. 4Bangkok Wakes to Rain (2019)Bangkok Wakes to Rain (2019) 10.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2019Bangkok is the continuity here, with linked lives carrying the city from its past into an imagined, partly submerged future. The future residents' relationship to lost landmarks makes cultural memory as important as new ways of getting around. Choose it for a patient, layered account of a place…0
  5. 5Pacific Edge (1990)Pacific Edge (1990) 6.7/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1990In an environmentally minded California community, building and development remain matters of argument. Robinson's greener future has not removed personal jealousy, political compromise or the attraction of profit. That makes this especially rewarding for readers interested in land-use decisions:…0
  6. 6The Past Is Red (2021)The Past Is Red (2021) 10.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2021Tetley loves the floating rubbish settlement that other accounts might treat only as a symbol of catastrophe. Valente's short, sharp book makes room for work, affection, prejudice and the stories a community tells about its prospects. Its exaggerations belong to satire, with a vast ocean and…0
  7. 7Parable of the Sower (1993)Parable of the Sower (1993) 8.7/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1993Lauren's journal follows the practical work of finding companions and forming a community as existing protections fail. Water, money, shelter and trust never become mere background. Butler's severe imagined California is useful here because the response includes a developing collective vision,…0
  8. 8The Windup Girl (2009)The Windup Girl (2009) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2009Bangkok's fragile arrangements for food, energy and survival are entangled with the power of biotechnology companies. Bacigalupi makes the conflict between local protection and global commercial pressure felt through people with sharply unequal freedoms, including the engineered Emiko. A dense,…0
  9. 9Blackfish City (2018)Blackfish City (2018)Published 1 Jan 2018A floating Arctic city can be an engineering achievement and still be a profoundly unequal place to live. Miller follows several residents whose work, illness and family connections expose the difference between keeping a structure afloat and making a society habitable. A mysterious arrival brings…0
  10. 10Orleans (2013)Orleans (2013) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2013After successive storms and disease, the Delta has been cut off by a wall, while people inside continue to organise lives the outside world barely recognises. Fen's effort to protect a newborn makes the consequences of abandonment immediate. Smith's young-adult novel is direct and fast-moving, with…0