Why did I love this book?
Something very bad and highly possible happens in the first chapter of this well-researched work of science fiction, and the year it ‘happens’ is a scant four years away. Climate change is not just a problem for the future, friends, and this tome puts it front and center, drawing on recent (2020) events, such as the Atlantic hurricane season and the Australian wildfires to make its case. But that’s not the part that will keep you up all night. The terrifying bit is the fact that the very bad thing that happens is still not enough to light a fire under the people who can actually save the human race. Shudder.
25 authors picked The Ministry for the Future as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
“The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem
"If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein (Vox)
The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite…