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Jun 03, 2002 in the years of rice and salt, kim stanley robinson uses the black plague to remove the europeans, leaving the old world to the chinese, islam, and the many cultural groups that end up in india. Listen to years of rice and salt by kim stanley robinson. Based on the timeline compiled by mark rosa in 2004 original timeline here, offline since 2009. It is a dense, informed, impassioned and huge novel by an author who is a comprehensive and insatiable thinker. The years of rice and salt by kim stanley robinson a novelist imagines 700 years of history in which the plague has wiped out the west and china and islam rule the globe. Kim stanley robinson the years of rice and salt audiobook part 1 jeniffer betty. The chinese discover the americas, their diseases spread through the native american populations, and their armies plunder the incans.
National science foundation as part of their antarctic artists and writers. There are an infinite number of ways to illustrate the journey of human beings through time and space, and one of the best is through science fiction. In the mars books, robinson simply had various protagonists be pioneers of lifeextension as well as of planetary colonisation. In his grandest work yet, the acclaimed storyteller constructs a world vastly different from the one we know. In the past, kim stanley robinson has on occasion turned his attention to alternate history, from the lucky strike 1984 to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions 1991, however the years of rice and salt is the first time robinson has created a novel length examination of alternate history. Kim stanley robinson propose dans the years of rice and salt une. In the 14th century anno domini, the black plague decimates europe. Fiction, black death, science fiction, long now manual for civilization. The novel explores how world history might have been different if the black death plague had killed 99% of europes population, instead of a third because fewer catsmore rats. Kim stanley robinson is a winner of the hugo, nebula, and locus awards. The novel is divided into ten books, each focusing on one or sometimes more incarnation of the main characters. The years of rice and salt what should i read next.
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