My refrigerator is full. :)
I literally keep checking all shop's offers every single day in hopes I'll find something relevant on a good price. Some stuff I bought were marked as on sale, but didn't get the price. I don't speak the local language to ask, and the last time this happened I tried to communicate, but they didn't care, so eh. But me has a full refrigerator. Me happi. :3
It's definitely closer to hard scifi than I was expecting, but I'm also a nerd that loves plausible sounding science stuff so it's right up my alley.
Honestly, is anything hard sci-fi?
It seems that hard sci-fi is just sci-fi that sounds plausible... or is that the whole point?
I guess hard sci-fi is just taking real things from the lab and then scaling it up by handwaving some of the problems with manufacture and deployment that come with going from the lab to the real world application. We can make carbon nanotubes right now in the lab, but we can't make them longer than a few hundred milimeters. Handwave that away and you get space elevators.
It's still fictional science, though. Handwaving stuff like that isn't very scientific 😏
Oh yeah
Fair enough. I think I'm over-thinking it (or thinking about it more than how the author wants us to think about it).
I put a star on this comment since it's a good explanation of hard sci-fi.
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Also this is just kinda my interpretation idk how accurate my explanation is lol
Oh, yeah, for sure, I gotchu
Ministery for the future is almost entirely real science (the fiction part is multiple governments actually funding climate action)
That last part sounds pretty fictional and unrealistic.
No shit, the entire book is the result of Robinson using his personal connections with the scientific community to try and envision a “what if after the first wet-bulb event everyone starts taking it seriously starting with India”.
It’s a legit good book, I know you’re a bit burnt out on books lately, but if you like reading/listening it’s really well done (it also has Maoist comrades taking out billionaires).
I can hook you up with files in your preferred format if you’re interested.
"starting with India"
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That sounds fun, actually.
Maybe I'll read it later; I'll hit you up when I feel like it.
Well, the reason it starts with India is because they are the first to experience a mass death event…
They immediately start putting stuff in the atmosphere to slow down warming (they actually work with Pakistan in a climate solidarity thing iirc).
"they actually work with Pakistan in a climate solidarity thing"
Thank fuck a BJP fascist nationalist-type didn't write this novel lmao
Same guy as the Mars trilogy actually.
He did an interview with rev left radio and said “the only reason I didn’t write a book about 3rd worldist ecoterrorists saving the day by doing direct action is because I live a comfortable middle class life and that would inauthentic coming from a white American who would deservedly be a target”.
"Same guy as the Mars trilogy actually."
I'm aware.
Also lol
The self-awareness is admirable, I just wish he was slightly less lib about the UN (Tbf he has a former ISI operative helping murk rich people while working for the climate ministry).
Tbf, the UN has various factions within it, not just Western.
Very true, the fiction part is Europe throwing their weight behind it I guess (a running theme in the book is China being like “ facepalms I was trying to tell you this earlier”
Oho! I like that last part.