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Podcast: The Futurists
Episode: SPECIAL EPISODE – MINISTER FOR THE FUTURE – PT 1
Description: This week The Futurists hosts Brett and Rob host a guest that NY Times calls “one of the world’s most acclaimed living science fiction writers” – Kim Stanley Robinson. We dive into the Mars Trilogy and interplanetary colonization and exploration, we tackle climate shift and the economics of the world of the future. We get some background on his early career in sci-fi, we delve into KSR’s world building and how real world places influenced story settings, his interest in fields like terraforming, geology and even genetics. This is part 1 of a two part special episode. You’re going to lov...