He is not my favorite writer, but his books are exhaustively researched, and influential, and the topic is endlessly fascinating, in that special anxiety-inducing way. Especially since every day I walk by the building that apparently is the main location of his new book.
It is probably worth reading simply because I will learn something about a future worth hoping for. Got a hold put on it at the library.

Q&A: Kim Stanley Robinson Explains How He Flooded Manhattan – Scientific American