I had heard lots of great recommendations in climate circles and as a marine scientist and hard sci-fi lover I thought this would be my kind of book…And yet this book tries to do way too much and ends up not doing much of anything well. As a novel it’s boring, as climate science it’s shallow, as climate policy it’s not a particularly helpful vision for dealing with the climate crisis, and it’s attempt to include countless global perspectives ends up weighed down by clichés and stereotypes. As a Native Hawaiian, the chapter from the “Hawaiian’s” perspective was particularly cringeworthy. And despite a full cast, there still ends up being many embarrassingly awful cross-racial accents.