![]() ![]() Actually, I think all scientific papers are narratives in much the same way short stories are, but they have different forms and different relations to their subject material, so that the narrative element (often quite similar to a detective story) is obscured. Three things: the future as subject for speculation the syncretic combination of all the fields into a holistic vision of civilisation and lastly, narrative as a mode of knowing. What can you contribute that the world’s foremost scientists cannot? You are a science fiction writer, not a climate scientist, yet you were a speaker at the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) as well as at numerous other science conferences, and you have worked with the U.S. We met with Robinson in Copenhagen to discuss climate change, politics, literature, the human/nature divide, and humanity’s far off future. He was a speaker at the COP26 climate change conference. The New Yorker has called him ‘our greatest political novelist’. His most recent novel is The Ministry for the Future (2020). Among his best-known novels are the Mars trilogy ( Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars, 1992-1996), 2312 (2012) and New York 2140 (2017). ![]() ![]() Kim Stanley Robinson is a best-selling American sci-fi author with a long history of writing fiction imagining climate futures, whether good or bad. ![]()
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