At Twenty-sixth and Park, the waves shine in. Having put that story on the table as being possible, it suggests that we ought to be trying for it. Sci-Fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson is author of New York 2140 (Orbit, 2017), among others. Kim Stanley Robinson’s Latest Novel Imagines Life in an Underwater New York By Joshua Rothman ApIt’s spring in New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been. The waters rose, submerging New York City. That’s the best we can expect from where we are right now. A new vision of the future from Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora. I write as a utopian science-fiction writer.” But “at the moment we’re at right now in world history,” he admits, “I have to set a pretty low bar for ‘utopia.’ If we dodge a mass-extinction event in this century, that’s utopian writing. They headed into the High Sierra, hiking toward Deadman Canyona fifty-mile walk. “That whole dystopian postapocalyptic strain-it doesn’t serve as a warning, it doesn’t make you change your behavior,” Robinson notes. Last summer, the science-fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson went on a backpacking trip with some friends. And yet Robinson tells Bill McKibben that his work is not dystopian his central concern is how the globe could respond to such a disaster and begin to halt the momentum of global warming. It’s a sobering read, especially after July, 2021, was declared the hottest month on record. One of the premier writers of thinky sci-fi, Kim Stanley Robinson opened his book “ The Ministry for the Future” with an all too plausible scenario: a lethal heat wave descends on India, with vast, horrifying consequences. Photograph by Ritesh Shukla / NurPhoto / Getty

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