'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. '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 The waters rose, submerging New York City. But it's the radical imagination of the book that makes it so hard to put down.'― Business Insider New York 2140 Kim Stanley Robinson 3.58 13,067 ratings2,152 reviews It is 2140.

But it’s being a science fiction author that has landed Kim Stanley Robinson on the global literary map and The New York Times bestseller list. 'The thriller Robinson unspools in that flooded city is gripping on its own merits. The New Yorker has called him one of the most important political writers working in America today.Time magazine has called him a hero of the environment. '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 New York is still a vibrant city with horribly uneven income distribution. 'Kim Stanley Robinson envisions a future that's closer than we like to think.'― NPR Books by Kim Stanley Robinson Read by Suzanne Toren, Robin Miles, Peter Ganim. 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

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