Robinson manages to write a fiction that is somehow more radicalizing in its implications than the excellent works of non-fiction detailing the climate crisis, partly because he tries to imagine not the apocalypse scenarios, but instead the prevailing ones.
Imaginative in a way that feels real, ambitious, and somehow dreamlike all at once, Ministry for the Future’s partly episodic telling of the world yet to come explores fascinating concepts and possibilities. But it never strays from the critical human elements of loss, life, and the deep urge to press forward.