![]() ![]() 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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