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Kim stanley robinson is a new york times bestseller and winner of the hugo, nebula, and locus awards. For the residents of one apartment building in madison square, however, new york in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city. Sfx magazine via getty images kim stanley robinson photographed at a book talk in 2012. Not for the first time, and not, i can only hope, for the last, kim stanley robinson takes aim at climate change in new york 2140, an immensely necessary novel as absorbing as it is sprawling about.
Kim stanley robinson envisions a future thats closer than we like to think in new york 2140. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed forty signs of rain, the years of rice and salt and 2312. His work has been described as humanist science fiction and literary science fiction. His books combine strong science with powerful social themes. Kim stanley robinson and the science friday book club. New york 2140 is a 2017 climate fiction novel by american science fiction author kim stanley robinson. Robinson s latest is an immersive, characterrich drama set in a waterlogged future.
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