Average people eking out a precarious existence in the more sunken parts of the city band together to resist the twin threats of storm surges on the one hand and wealthy, predatory speculators from the higher and drier sections of the city on the other. In its pages, the half-sunken (owing to global warming and consequent rising sea levels) but still-vibrant future Manhattan, criss-crossed by skybridges and streets-turned-canals, that figures peripherally in some of Robinson’s other works, here takes center stage. New York 2140 is a sprawling, magnificent tour de force. (The inconsistencies are explained in Galileo’s Dream, where we learn that these various narratives belong to distinct but closely adjacent timelines.) Recurring themes in his stories include ecology, archeological exploration, anti-capitalist politics, and the ineluctable passage of time – all of which feature in New York 2140, which, like much of his work (including Icehenge, The Martians, 2312, Galileo’s Dream, and Aurora) fits almost-but-not-quite into the future history established in the Mars trilogy, his best-known work. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the best science-fiction writers working today. 'A thoroughly enjoyable exercise in worldbuilding, written with a cleareyed love for the city's past, present, and future.'― Kirkus 'Robinson has established himself as the great humanist of speculative fiction.'― Village Voice 'Massively enjoyable'― The Washington Post But it's the radical imagination of the book that makes it so hard to put down.'― Business Insider 'The thriller Robinson unspools in that flooded city is gripping on its own merits. 'As much a critique of contemporary capitalism, social mores and timeless human foibles, this energetic, multi-layered narrative is also a model of visionary worldbuilding.'― RT Book Reviews (Top Pick!) 'An exploration of human resilience in the face of extreme pressure.starkly beautiful and fundamentally optimistic visions of technological and social change in the face of some of the worst devastation we might bring upon ourselves.'― The Conversation 'Kim Stanley Robinson envisions a future that's closer than we like to think.'― NPR Books New York 2140 is a towering novel about a genuinely grave threat to civilisation.'― Guardian 'Science fiction is threaded everywhere through culture nowadays, and it would take an act of critical myopia to miss the fact that Robinson is one of the world's finest working novelists, in any genre.

'Relevant and essential.'― Bloomberg Businessweek 'New York may be underwater, but it's better than ever.'― The New Yorker

New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson