2025: Kevin Hallinan, Milestone Book Selection
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Year of Recognition
8-16-2025
Recognition
Promotion to the rank of Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Book Selection
The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Keywords
Academic tenure, promotion, professional milestone
Recommended Citation
Hallinan, Kevin, "2025: Kevin Hallinan, Milestone Book Selection" (2025). Milestone Recognition Program. 169.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/svc_milestone/169
Why the honoree chose the book
The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year, this extraordinary novel from visionary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis.