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The Ministry for the Future

by Kim Stanley Robinson · 2020

Kim Stanley Robinson's climate-fiction novel about institutions, technology, and political struggle in a warming world.

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Author of The Ministry for the Future, included in Bill Gates's 2022 summer reading list.

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Documented citation: Gates included The Ministry for the Future in his 2022 summer reading list.

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Gates Notes · 2022 · accessed 2026-06-22

The first-party Gates Notes page presents these titles as Bill Gates books for summer reading in 2022; the catalog text is a summary rather than a verbatim quote.

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