Kim Stanley Robinson is one of my favorite science fiction writers and this book is a perfect example of the genre. True science fiction takes the science of today and imagines continuing and changed into the future based on whatever story the writer chooses to use as a lens; this story was ‘climate change’ and what happens when we don’t and when we do account for it in our human lives.
It was told in 106 chapters, most of them vignettes, but a handful of them followed a continuous story line. It was read by a lot of narrators with very authentic accents that lent to the authentic representation of the dozens of different countries that were represented.
Not only did I thoroughly enjoy the story but I think it should become part of regular reading for high school students!