“[ The Ministry for the Future ] struck like a mallet hitting a gong, reverberating through the year ... it's terrifying, unrelenting, but ultimately hopeful. Robinson is the SF writer of my lifetime, and this stands as some of his best work. It's my book of the year.”

— Locus

“If there's any book that hit me hard this year, it was Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Futur e, 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)

“One hopes that this book is read widely--that Robinson's 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 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 Klein ( Vox )

“Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom.”

— Bloomberg Green

“The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I've ever read.”

— Jonathan Lethem