Phil in SF quoted The Lucky Strike by Kim Stanley Robinson (PM Press Outspoken Authors, #2)
Combining dazzling speculation with a profoundly humanist vision, Kim Stanley Robinson is known as not …
Anyone can do a dystopia these days just by making a collage of newspaper headlines, but utopia's are hard, and important, because we need to imagine what it might be like if we did things well enough to say to our kids, we did our best, this is about as good as it was when it was handed to us, take care of it and do better.
— The Lucky Strike by Kim Stanley Robinson (PM Press Outspoken Authors, #2)
From an interview of Kim Stanley Robinson in the book.