Panel 12 (Red Salon/ Volksbühne)
Kim Stanley Robinson
With Kim Stanley Robinson (USA) (prerecorded), Elisabeth Bösl (DE) und Thekla Dannenberg (DE).
Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the most significant science fiction writers of our time. He is also one who writes most extensively about climate and climate change.
He never settles for simple dystopian scenes or gloomy forecasts. His literary scenarios are often revolutionary excursions into a future that translates ecological reason into political-economic alternatives.
It’s logical that KSR has been invited to speak at the Glasgow 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference — science fiction meets present day.
The panel will investigate the question as to whether the "positive Anthropocene" described by KSR in his latest novel has realistic potential, what literary devices are employed here, and what questions may arise for those unfamiliar with the author or with science fiction.
Kim Stanley Robinson will have his say in a prerecorded interview, and his novel "Ministry for the Future" will be presented in readings, and Thekla Dannenberg and Elisabeth Bösl will discuss the novel and the author.
»to be realistic you have to write about climate change.«
Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He lives in Davis, California. Robinson became famous for his Mars trilogy about terraforming Mars, which humanity wants to colonize.
In his novels, he often deals with politics, climate change and criticism of neoliberalism. For example, in "Science In The Capital Trilogy", in "New York 2140", and in his current near-future novel "Ministry for the Future" made him known beyond science fiction circles.
Titles:
•Ministery for the Future, 2020
•New York 2140, 2017
•Green Earth, 2015
Thekla Dannenberg studied political science and attended the German School of Journalism in Munich. She has also worked as an editor at the "taz". She has been an editor at Perlentaucher since 2002 and writes for other media as an author and critic.
Elisabeth Bösl was fascinated by fantastic worlds and futures - both distant and near - since her youth. After studying German, history and Russian literature, she worked for several years as a freelance editor, literary agent and editor for die zukunft.de before becoming an editor for fantasy and science fiction at Wilhelm Heyne Verlag in Munich.
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