This was a dense, thick book but reading it was a joy. It's one of those I call "Bigger Brain Books." Because after reading this, my brain is definitely bigger.

This is a history of the climate crash and how the world clawed out from under it. Some of it is rough and bleak and some of it is hope but all of it is smart. Various ideas would get in my head and percolate around and then I'd tell a lot of people about it and get angry that they don't actually exists, for instance capping corporate wages so that the highest earner makes no more than 10x what the lowest earner makes. Give everyone an adequate living wage and then give the decisionmakers 10x that and not the current 1000x average difference. (No one should earn in 15 minutes what it takes their employee a year to make!)

Anyway, KSR is climbing higher and higher on my favorite authors list. I would have given it 5 stars had there been just a bit more human story and connection as opposed to so much infodumping, as fascinating as it was.