The Ministry for the Future

Book Playlist

The Ministry for the Future Playlist

by Kim Stanley Robinson, Simon Saito

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 13, 2026

This playlist moves between the novel’s immediate climate peril, its worldwide political and financial responses, and the hard-won possibility of collective action. The instrumental opening ranges from electronic unease and vast, slow-building orchestral textures to more organic calm; the vocal songs then bring in grief, protest, complicity, and stubborn hope. Together, the tracks echo a near-future world under pressure without reducing its complicated human story to either catastrophe or easy optimism.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Comptine d'un autre été, l'après-midi

Yann Tiersen · Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Bande originale du film)

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2

La valse d'Amélie

Yann Tiersen · Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Bande originale du film)

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3

Cirrus

Bonobo · The North Borders

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4

Migration

Bonobo · Migration

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5

Order from Chaos

Max Cooper · Emergence

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6

Repetition

Max Cooper · Yearning for the Infinite

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7

Erupting Light

Hildur Guðnadóttir · Without Sinking

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8

A Rainbow in Curved Air

Terry Riley · A Rainbow In Curved Air

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9

Lower Your Eyelids To Die With the Sun

M83 · Before the Dawn Heals Us

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10

Memories of Green

Vangelis · Blade Runner (Music From The Original Soundtrack)

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11

Become Ocean

John Luther Adams · John Luther Adams: The Become Trilogy

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12

Virginal II

Tim Hecker · Virgins

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13

Requiem for Dying Mothers, Pt. 2

Stars Of The Lid · The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid

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14

Big Yellow Taxi

Joni Mitchell · Ladies of the Canyon

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15

Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)

Marvin Gaye · What's Going On

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16

Beds Are Burning

Midnight Oil · Diesel And Dust

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17

The Seed

AURORA · A Different Kind Of Human – Step 2

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18

(Nothing But) Flowers

Talking Heads · Naked

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19

After the Gold Rush

Neil Young · After the Gold Rush (2009 Remaster)

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20

Earth Song

Michael Jackson · HIStory - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE - BOOK I

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