The Ministry for the Future
A UN body is created to represent people not yet born, and spends decades trying to force the world to act on climate.
Kim Stanley Robinson opens with a heat wave in India that kills millions, then spends five hundred pages on the far harder question of what institutions would actually have to do next. The Ministry is a UN body charged with representing people not yet born. Told through meetings, eyewitness fragments and economics as much as plot, and unusual in treating the politics of climate as solvable rather than tragic.
Recommended by 1 Person
Slavoj Žižek
Socialist realism at its most noble and convincing. In the near future, a global heat wave that begins in India kills millions and spreads around the world. But humans decide on cooperation and gradually cope with the threat.
Source · May 2026
As an Amazon Associate, bookstoread.org earns from qualifying purchases. Links to Amazon on this page may earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. Spotted an error on this page? Tell us and we will fix it.