![]() ![]() In between chapters there’s snippets of quotes from various sources about New York and its history, often funny. He even addresses the reader straight on about his tendency to infodump. ![]() ![]() It is his most ironic mode yet, his most openly self-aware book. The book follows nine characters that all live in the same building: a market trader, a police inspector, an environmental activist/nude model internet star, the building’s manager, two orphan boys straight from Huckleberry Finn, a lawyer and two coders trying to rig the Wall Street system.Īt first the book is simply great. This time the sea level has risen spectacularly and New York has turned into a New Venice. The remaining 363, not so much.Īs the cover and the title make clear, New York 2140 follows firmly in the line of Kim Stanley Robinson’s near future novels: there was Washington & climate change in the Science of the Capital trilogy, refurbished in 2015 as the mammoth Green Earth, and California & three different scenarios in his early series The Wild Shore (1984), The Gold Coast (1988) and Pacific Edge (1990). It’s also no denying I avidly share the same concerns as so many: climate change, rising inequality, the grip of finance on global politics. ![]()
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