The Ministry for the Future
A Novel
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4.0 • 645 Ratings
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- $2.99
Publisher Description
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S 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 I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem, New York Times bestselling author of The 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 there’s any book that hit me hard this year, it was Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, a sweeping epic about climate change and humanity’s efforts to try and turn the tide before it’s too late." -Polygon (Best of the Year)
"Masterly." —New Yorker
Customer Reviews
Maybe I didn’t get it all?
I love the theme and the experiment of the idea… but I found myself not caring by the end and just trying to finish.
Massive ideas, tedious execution
The premise and optimism is absolutely appreciated. I also don’t know how at least one-fifth of its content wasn’t seen as filler an immediately cut. There is a repetitious format of main character story, nameless-faceless testimony, meeting minutes (!?!? Zzz), and chapters dedicated to riddles that hardly feel supplemental. There was some extra legwork to be done to convey the sentiments of this story’s inhabitants. This was a struggle to finish. There was a chapter dedicated to listing agencies and their functions, it went on for at least 5 pages and it almost killed all of my momentum (ch.85). It is possible to finish, just do it without feeling bad about glancing over the parts that feel like they deserve to be overlooked.
Little bit disappointing
This is too optimistic to enjoy entirely. You know, the US stance for the climate change is not supporting the common sense. So, it seems too far away from our hope and reality, leading us a dystopia instead of utopia which was described in the novel.