The near future arrives with terrifying speed in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future. Told through fictional eyewitness accounts, the novel captures a planet in crisis and the desperate measures humanity takes to survive.
When climate disaster strikes, a new international agency—the Ministry for the Future—is tasked with protecting generations yet to come. From flooded cities to economic upheaval, every chapter reveals the staggering cost of inaction and the fierce ingenuity required to fight back.
Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year, this sweeping vision blends science and imagination to deliver a story that is urgent, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful.
The future is not postapocalyptic. It is now. And it belongs to us.
