Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2023-05-12
Books mentioned on Best Of: A Weird, Wonderful Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Overstory
Discussed“and as much as the overstory has blown up the world I still would uh I mean actually that's a big audience say to them go back and read the echo maker”
Where to get it
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Time for Socialism
Discussed“one of his books one of his most recent books called time for socialism well between that and the Dalai Lama saying I love socialism I was kind of startled”
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The Knowledge Machine
The Knowledge Machine by Michael Strevens is a philosophical examination of how modern science operates and how it managed to achieve such extraordinary success in uncovering objective truths about the natural world.
Recommended“I recently wrote a book that if you haven't read it I think you'd really like it called the knowledge Machine by Michael stravins”
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The Echo Maker
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers is a critically acclaimed novel that explores themes of identity, neurology, and human connection following a tragic car accident in the Nebraska Sandhills.
Recommended“I recently reread one of his old novels the echo maker”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The Years of Rice and Salt
“he has his new book an unusual foray into non-fiction for him which is about his lifelong relationship right and I mean that in the the more human sense of the term with the Sierra Nevada's and it's right there in the title The High Sierra a love story”
Own book The Ministry for the Future
“so in in some ways I will say this I am more encouraged now than I was when I wrote Ministry for the future in 2019”
Own book The Ministry for the Future
“you might have brought this up because in my book Ministry for the future I have a long chapter about the U.S Navy where the wage ratio so-called is one to eight”