There’s a lot of ground to cover! It’s been so long that this website has been updated that things have accumulated.

World Inequality Conference

Kim Stanley Robinson visited Paris for the World Inequality Conference 2026, celebrating the launch of the World Inequality Lab’s Global Justice Report: A Plan for Equality & Prosperity
Within Planetary Boundaries, by Lucas Chancel, Gabriel Zucman, Thomas Piketty and colleagues.

The report doesn’t just go about making an overview on where we stand on various forms of inequality, it doesn’t just make a list of policy recommendations to decision makers, it goes way beyond that: it imagines bold global solutions, discusses specific reforms for national and international institutions, addresses specific clauses in how institutions’ charters are written and how conditions might change in the future, proposes all-new types of institutions to enact the changes it envisions, and also quantifies all that with all sorts of simulations for the remainder of the 21st century.

It is a sweeping vision of transformation towards a better future, one that is anchored to our present and enacted through incremental reforms, and so reads like a complement to The Ministry for the Future. In fact, KSR’s Ministry is referenced in the report’s introduction! Quite an achievement for this novel to influence the world’s issues of our time.

In that conference, Piketty was in discussion with Robinson. Their talk is titled “Utopia and Dystopia in the XXIst Century” (4/Jun/2026);

UNESCO

While in Paris, KSR appeared at UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)’s Thought Leaders series of events: Designing a Just Climate Future (3/Jun/2026):

Even more interviews

As per KSR, he has done around 600 talks, panels, podcasts, etc since The Ministry for the Future came out some five years ago (no, that’s not a typo) and I’ve been trying to track them and list them here on this site. I’m sure I have missed some and some are not uploaded online, but still the list is long!

19/Oct/2025 KSR on Future in Review: Scenario Planning Climate Solutions (YouTube).

9/Jan/2026 KSR on The BMJ for a special issue on the climate emergency (BMJ article; YouTube).

29/Jan/2026 KSR on the Blind Spot Podcast (YouTube).

2/Mar/2026 KSR on No Small Endeavor: this one sticks out as KSR goes through some rarely heard topics, like his upbringing, ethics and religion. Abridged (YouTube) and unabridged (YouTube full video, YouTube podcast version).

17/Mar/2026 KSR on Crisis and Critique: on his work, utopic realism, the future of Mars, Fredric Jameson… and so on (YouTube).

Recording of a 17/Apr/2026 event: KSR at the Nevada Museum Of Art for the A+E Summit: Under Pressure: Proposal for the Future (YouTube).

21/Apr/2026 KSR on the Berkeley Climate Change Network (YouTube).

28/Apr/2026 KSR on Dreaming Against The Machine (YouTube).

16/Jun/2026 KSR on How To Train A Happy Mind: “What If the Future Is Better Than We Think?” (YouTube).

19/Jun/2026 KSR and Cory Doctorow on a livestream of the UN Human Rights Council‘s Independent Expert on International Order: Imagining the Future of the World and the UN (YouTube), unfortunately the video is cut short at a spicy moment.

24/Jun/2026 KSR on Anne Therese Gennari’s Hey Change Podcast (YouTube).

Along with climate scientists, Robinson chimed in to give his opinion on the summer heat waves in two articles by the Associated Press (24/Aug/2026 and 17/Sep/2026). On that infamous first chapter of Ministry:

I just have this instinctive sense, no, this is too harsh. This is too … I’m not willing to read this one aloud.

2026/Sep/26 KSR in discussion with Janna Levin on Pioneer Works‘ Science+Ficton series: on Science, Fiction, and the Power of Speculation (website):

10/Oct/2026 KSR quote in this article by Futura Sciences on climate disasters.

Also, Liam Young‘s climate-focused exhibition In Other Worlds at the Barbican Centre, London, included quotes from KSR (The Reviews Hub, The Hollywood Reporter, Kill Screen).

Essay in “Living, Together”

Samantha Paige Rosen edited a collection of essays, “Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection“, which was published in July 2026 (Beacon Press).

KSR’s contribution is on “describing the magic of communities that are led by everyone”.

Rosen did a presentation (Popville) and several interviews (Bomb Magazine, The Rumpus, Boston Globe) to promote the collection.

The Ministry for the Future recommended

Here is Ministry‘s much-discussed first chapter read by Verbum Dictum: 35°C Wet-Bulb (YouTube):

The Week: Slavoj Zizek recommends Ministry!

Down The Tubes: Ministry for a graphic novel adaptation

Also, recommendations of Ministry by Big News Network, Make Use Of, Nautilus.

Related articles

• Universe Today: A roadmap for terraforming Mars and the Mars trilogy
• Free Press Journal (India): Ministry and heat protection laws for Asian workers
• Hindustan Times: Ministry and India’s hot summer
• Daily Kos: Ministry and Europe’s heat wave 
• Sunday Times (Sri Lanka): Ministry and the promises of international institutions
• Brighter Kashmir (India): Ministry and climate action in Kashmir
• Times Higher Education: Ministry and teaching utopian and dystopian narratives in higher education

Tom Clegg

Tom Clegg has sadly passed away. He was an editor and translator that worked a lot to get KSR’s work recognised and published into French, at Bragelonne SF. Locus Mag has an obituary and an appreciation by KSR. Read more on Clegg on DreamSaga and read his review of The Years of Rice and Salt at Noosfere (in French).