ONE OF BARACK OBAMAS FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR The best sciencefiction nonfiction novel Ive ever read. Jonathan Lethem If I could get policymakers and citizens everywhere to read just one book this year it would be Kim Stanley Robinsons 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 books of the year this extraordinary novel from visionary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis. One hopes that this book is read widelythat Robinsons audience already large grows by an order of magnitude. Because the point of his books is to fire the imagination.New York Review of Books If theres any book that hit me hard this year it was Kim Stanley Robinsons The 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 The Ministry for the Future struck like a mallet hitting a gong reverberating through the year ... its terrifying unrelenting but ultimately hopeful. Robinson is the SF writer of my lifetime and this stands as some of his best work. Its my book of the year. Locus Sciencefiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom. Bloomberg Green show more