The Ministry for the Future

About “The Ministry for the Future”

The Ministry for the Future is a 2020 novel by Kim Stanley Robinson that explores the impacts of climate change through fictional eyewitness accounts. It portrays a near-future world rather than a post-apocalyptic one. The book was named one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year. It has received praise from multiple sources, including Jonathan Lethem, Ezra Klein, and the New York Review of Books. Critics have called it a sweeping epic about humanity’s efforts to address climate change. The novel has been described as masterly and hopeful, with some calling it the book of the year.