As the sea level rose, every street became a canal, every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city.
New York Timesbestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson delivers a bold and brilliant vision of New York in the next century.
'New York may be underwater but it's better than ever' - New Yorker
'Massively enjoyable' - Washington Post
'Gripping . . . so hard to put down' - Business Insider
'A document of hope as much as dread' - Los Angeles Review of Books
Novels by Kim Stanley Robinson:
Icehenge The Memory of Whiteness A Short, Sharp Shock Antarctica The Years of Rice and Salt Galileo's Dream 2312 Shaman Aurora New York 2140 Red Moon
'Robinson is one of the world's finest working novelists, in any genre. New York 2140 is a towering novel about a genuinely grave threat to civilisation' -- Guardian
'Robinson seamlessly binds together characters and narrative strands ... An immensely enjoyable reading experience' SciFiNow
'Even at 600-plus pages, there's a leanness to the prose that keeps the plot moving forwards...And Robinson handles setpieces with aplomb' SFX
'If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson' New York Times
'Robinson is one of our best, bravest, most moral and most hopeful storytellers' New Yorker
Author
About Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952. After travelling and working around the world, he settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched scientific basis of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win and is the author of the massively successful and lavishly praised ‘Mars’ series.