The Ministry for the Future (2020)

Robinson makes a new international institution's work part of the drama, asking how finance, technology, public pressure and everyday lives might combine to change a dangerous trajectory. The opening heat catastrophe is harrowing, but the novel keeps looking for organised responses. Read it for an unusually sustained attempt to imagine action at several scales. Its short arguments and shifting voices are part of the method, and its invented pathway invites debate rather than serving as a forecast.