The Steamboat Library will host a community conference with award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson on March 1

Award-winning cli-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson will discuss his novel, “The Ministry for the Future,” at an event hosted by the Bud Werner Library. The conference will be broadcast live at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 1 on the library’s Crowdcast platform.
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Steamboat’s Bud Werner Library is hosting a successful community conference on Tuesday, March 1, featuring highly acclaimed and award-winning cli-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson.

During the presentation, Robinson will talk about her novel, “Ministry for the Future.” Drawing inspiration from the work, Robinson will share his insights, research and writing ideas on the collision of global communities, economies, species, refugees, geoengineering and activism on one Earth. of the near future grappling with impending climate change.

The free conference will include a question-and-answer session with the public.



Robinson is a New York Times bestselling author and Hugo, Nebula and Locus award winner, as well as a speaker at the UN COP-26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow.

As a science fiction writer, Robinson is the author of over 20 books, including the bestselling “Mars” and “Forty Signs of Rain” trilogy, “The Years of Rice and Salt” and “2312”, which was a New York Times bestseller. which has been nominated for all seven major science fiction awards – a first for a book.



Robinson’s presentation will also serve as the grand finale for the One Book Steamboat community’s reading. Watch the presentation live at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 1 on the library’s Crowdcast platform, http://www.CrowdCast.io/e/OneBookSteamboat.

To find out more, visit SteamboatLibrary.org.

Lola R. McClure