![]() It’s a polemic about how and more pertinently why our market based economic systems fail and fail again. Here’s the thing though, despite Robinson’s just reputation as a (the?) leading climate change novelist, New York 2140 isn’t about climate change really. Robmatic: I’m not aware of any other novels that are set in a future flooded New York. What a stunningly original idea for a story. In the comments on Adam Roberts’ Guardian review we find the following exchange: Robinson’s characters live co-operatively mostly in one building, the former Met Life skyscraper, but exist in a variety of colliding worlds outside. ![]() ![]() Coastal cities are therefore largely underwater. Kim Stanley Robinson’s fascinating and provocative 18th novel New York 2140 is set several decades after two major climate events have raised sea levels hugely. ![]()
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