The Ministry for the Future: A Novel [Paperback]

ONE OF BARACK OBAMAS FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR

An unsettling masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will impact us all.

The best science-fiction nonfiction novel Ive ever read. Jonathan Lethem,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Fortress of Solitude

The Ministry for the Future's setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. This extraordinary novel from visionary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis.

If theres any book that hit me hard this year, it was Kim Stanley RobinsonsThe Ministry for the Future, a sweeping epic about climate change and humanitys efforts to try and turn the tide before its too late. -Polygon(Best of the Year)

Masterly. New Yorker

Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy, 2312, Aurora, and New York 2140. In 2008, he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California.

"[A] compelling work of speculative fiction about solving the climate crisis around the world... This story is heavy but important. Be prepared to lose sleep as you won't want to pause for anything."AudioFile on The Ministry for the Future Score a point for the audacity of hope....Robinson digs deep into how, with institutional support and some off-the-books black ops, revolutionary ideas could still seize our world. Shelf Awareness on The Ministry for the Future [A] gutsy, humane view of a near-future Earth...Rló~