The Ministry for the Future is a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades, from legendary SF author Kim Stanley Robinson. It is a novel both immediate and impactful, desperate and hopeful in equal measure, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written. Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organisation was simple: to advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future, and this is its story. (Outland.no).

Peopled by characters that speak to us directly, and illuminated by haunting reflections, these stories explore different pasts and divergent futures. They revolve around questions of history and meaning, and how what we know about the past influences the way we look at the present and the future.

An award-winning and bestselling SF writer, Kim Stanley Robinson is widely acknowledged as one of the most exciting and visionary writers in the field. His latest novel, 2312, imagined how we would be living 300 years from now. Now, with his new novel, he turns from our future to our past - to the Palaeolithic era, and an extraordinary moment in humanity's development. An emotionally powerful and richly detailed portrayal of life 30,000 years ago, it is a novel that will appeal both to his existing fans and a whole new mainstream readership.

Imagine a world without Europe. A vanguard of the Mongol horde rides west across the steppe, into an eerily silent world. People lie dead in villages and in the streets of towns. The Black Death has struck Europe. There are virtually no survivors. Into this empty land pour merchants, warlords and refugees, from China, India and the Arab nations. They fill a world without the ancestors of Columbus and Shakespeare, Newton and Einstein and Hitler. Nothing will ever be the same again. From that day forward, history is shaped by the East instead of the West.

George og Fred ville bare slappe litt av i Nepal. De regnet ikke med at de måtte redde en ekte, levende yeti, storme Mount Everest, forsøke å redde den mystiske byen Shangri-La, bli jagd av USAs hemmelige tjenester, slå seg sammen med en 431-år gammel tibetaner og kanskje til og med starte den tredje verdenskrigen.

Our voyage from Earth began generations ago. Now, we approach our destination. A new home. Aurora. Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, Aurora is the work of a writer at the height of his powers.

ALL THE COLOURS OF MARS The Mars trilogy has rapidly assumed the status of modern science fiction classic, capturing the imagination of hundreds of thousands of readers around the world. Now, with The Martians, comes Kim Stanley Robinson.s essential companion to the Mars series. New novellas and short stories head the collection, featuring many of the trilogy.s central characters in events previously only hinted in the novels. Added to this are works on Martian mythology, the Martian Constitution, scientific extracts and a series of Mars-inspired poems. In short, The Martian is a must for all lovers of the red planet.

Handlingen utspiller seg i Orange County i California i det 21. århundret. 27-år gamle Jim McPherson kjeder seg i dette velstående og høyteknologiske samfunnet. Han blir terrorist og kommer i opposisjon med sin far som er en romfartsingeniør opptatt av militær forskning.

Sytten år gamle Henrys store ønske er at Amerika skal bli en stormakt igjen etter den forferdelige kjemiske krigen som har herjet landet. En dag oppsøker to menn ham som sier de representerer den nye amerikanske motstandsbevegelsen. Nå blir Henry og de andre ført inn i et eventyr som markerer slutten på barndommen.

I det 33. århundret er menneskene spredt rundt på planetene i solsystemet. Da Johannes Wright begynner på sin første store reise i solsystemet, har han fiender etter seg. For å kunne konfrontere dem, må han redefinere universet, for seg selv og for menneskeheten.

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel Soon to be a series on Spike TV One of the most enthralling science fiction sagas ever written, Kim Stanley Robinson s epic trilogy concludes with Blue Mars a triumph of prodigious research and visionary storytelling. The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, Mars has been dramatically altered from a desolate world into one where humans can flourish. The First Hundred settlers are being pulled into a fierce new struggle between the Reds, a group devoted to preserving Mars in its desert state, and the Green terraformers. Meanwhile, Earth is in peril. A great flood threatens an already overcrowded and polluted planet. With Mars the last hope for the human race, the inhabitants of the red planet are heading toward a population explosion or interplanetary war. Praise for Blue Mars A breakthrough even from Robinson s] own consistently high levels of achievement. The New York Times Book Review Exhilarating . . . a complex and deeply engaging dramatization of humanity s future. The Philadelphia Inquirer Blue Mars ] brings the epic to a rousing conclusion. San Francisco Chronicle "

Dette er forfatterens andre bok om koloniseringen av Mars. "The first hundred" hadde et ønske om å skape en ny verden på Mars, men dette blir motarbeidet av opprørere. De overlevende av disse pionerene skjønner at det man trenger mest er samarbeid og tillit til hverandre, men dette viser seg å være vanskelig.

Dette er forfatterens første bok i serien om koloniseringen av Mars. I 2019 satte den første mannen sin fot på Mars, og i 2027 ankom "The first hundred" planeten. Deres mål var å skape en ny verden på denne kalde planeten; en Edens hage full av mennesker, dyr og planter.

Denne økothrilleren handler om en gruppe miljøvernentusiaster som legger ut på en ekspedisjon til Sydpolen for å vise at denne siste villmarken, som trues av oljeselskaper og mange eventyrlystne mennesker, må vernes og ikke ødelegges.

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best SF Novel of the Year The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future. The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. It is an unexpected death, but one that might have been foreseen. For Swan Er Hong, it is an event that will change her life. Swan was once a woman who designed worlds. Now she will be led into a plot to destroy them.

I Orange County skinner solen, og menneskene spiller ball og kjører rundt i småflyene sine. I den demokratisk valgte forsamlingen debatteres miljøspørsmål. Kevin Claiborne syns han lever i et perfekt samfunn, men når han hører om planene om utbyggingen av Rattlesnake Hill, den siste rest av villmark i området, skjønner han at noe korrupt er på gang under den perfekte fasaden.

The first of three linked novels set in the strife-torn world of big science, operating out of the corrupt political heart of the developed world. In the interface between big science and big business lies the potential for the absolute destruction or salvation of our world, as new discoveries open ever more remarkable doorways into the future. And while good intentions may underlie the science that leads to these discoveries, human greed, on an individual, political or corporate basis, will always seek a way to exploit each and every new development. Environmental advisor Charlie Quibler must find a way to get a sceptical government to act on the effects of global warming before its to late and they find themselves living in Swamp world.

In his first sixty days, President Phil Chase intends to prove he can change the world and solve climate change. A highly topical, witty and entertaining science thriller - the follow-up to Forty Days of Rain and Fifty Degrees Below.Frank Vanderwal, in the office of Presidential science advisor, finds something reassuring about the world being so messed up. It makes his own life look like part of a trend. He's been homeless for a year, the ex-husband of the love of his life did permanent injury to his nose - probably his brain - with a punch, and the love of his life has had to go into hiding from the secret service, which has Frank under surveillance, too ... but meanwhile there's the world to save. Frank's a scientist. He has to save the world so that science can proceed, obviously. This has become known as the Frank Principle.China is close to meltdown, the security agencies are in overdrive, carbon figures are close to cooking the world ... and the team has sixty days to establish a new reality.