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...The world is approaching the “zombie years” of natural disasters and rapidly warming temperatures as imagined by my lunch date, the science-fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson....
...In the past couple of years, peers including Adelphi Capital and Sloane Robinson have thrown in the towel while others such as Egerton Capital and Pelham Capital are running smaller hedge fund businesses...
...Work-life consultant Joe Robinson is also on a mission to help us properly switch off....
...Notable examples are Brian Aldiss’s Non-Stop (1958), Robert Heinlein’s Orphans of the Sky (1963) and more recently Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora (2015)....
...Morgan Stanley tagged the lawsuit “meritless” when it asked the court in October to send the case to arbitration....
...Chess currently has zero government support and he lacks a sponsor, so his exceptional talent is being backed by the John Robinson Youth Chess Trust and by the ECF’s Accelerator Programme....
...Finally, I was late to The Ministry for the Future: A Novel, by Kim Stanley Robinson, in much the same way that humanity is late in waking up to climate change....
...To the handful of recent classics such as Richard Powers’ The Overstory (2018), and Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future (2020) can be added Martin MacInnes’ In Ascension....
...That figure was ahead of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, demonstrating Centerview’s pre-eminence in blockbuster situations....
...Surely it’s possible that Stanley Kubrick, who loved Kurosawa, saw that scene and reverse-imagined it a few years later in 2001: A Space Odyssey as a bone hurled skyward becomes a waltzing spaceship?...
...Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘The Ministry for the Future’ is published in paperback in October....
...War-trophy Cassandra and powerless servant Cilissa, played with fierce integrity by Nina Bowers and Kate Stanley Brennan, add to the female voices caught up in the blood-soaked sequel to a gruesome war....
...For what kind of dancing was Bill “Bojangles” Robinson famous? The Sword in the Stone was the first of four Arthurian novels by which British author?...
...Rivals include traditional freight brokers such as CH Robinson and digital freight start-ups like Convoy in Seattle. Amazon looms large too....
...If Venice is a kind of theatre, with her cavalcade of boats an unfolding diorama, you have just discovered her best seats. the-luxury-collection.marriott.com Stanley Stewart Lounge Bar at JK Place, Paris...
...Kim Stanley Robinson’s article (“A way back for a world in flames”, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, August 21) makes for terrifying reading....
...Wine critic Jancis Robinson reveals some of her best bubbly for the winter, from a £10 Crémant to a memorable Krug....
...The third portrait of Mary Robinson, often known as Perdita, in the Wallace Collection is by George Romney....
...Kim Stanley Robinson’s climate plan What does it feel like to live on the brink of a vast historical change? It feels like now. Humanity stands on the brink of disaster....
...Kim Stanley Robinson, the science fiction writer, has memorably described space tourism as “bungee jumping” for the ultra-rich. It is hard to disagree with much of this criticism....
...The theme continued in novels, notably John Lanchester’s 2019 fable, The Wall, and last year’s The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson....
...Continue north into North Audley Street and cut through Providence Court into Brown Hart Gardens (Charles Stanley Peach, 1903-6)....
...Deutsche Bank has hired Richard Robinson as a managing director and vice-chair of global industrials....
...If you had been shipwrecked on this coast with a romantic designer, this might be the camp you would create, some cross between Robinson Crusoe’s island and a chic Ibizan love nest....
...(FT) Jennifer Robinson’s Lunch with the FT As Julian Assange’s longest-serving lawyer, Ms Robinson has watched as the WikiLeaks founder, once feted as the future of investigative journalism, has made powerful...
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