The Ministry for the Future (Bill Gates' 2022夏日閱讀推薦)

ONE OF BARACK OBAMAS FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2020If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future. Ezra KleinFrom legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades.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 usand in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face.It is a novel both immediate and impactful, desperate and hopeful in equal measure, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written.The best science fiction-nonfiction novel I've ever read.Jonathan Lethem, Vanity FairA breathtaking look at the challenges that face our planet in all their sprawling magnitude and also in their intimate, individual moments of humanity. Booklist (starred)A sweeping, optimistic portrait of humanitys ability to cooperate in the face of disaster. This heartfelt work of hard science-fiction is a must-read for anyone worried about the future of the planet.Publishers Weekly (starred)The Ministry for the Future ranks among Robinsons best recent works, a collection of actions and observations that adds up to more than the sum of its eclectic and urgent parts. SierraAlso by Kim Stanley Robinson:Red MoonNew York 21402312AuroraShaman