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The Years of Rice and Salt is an alternate history novel by American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, published in 2002.The novel explores how world history might have been different if the Black Death plague had killed 99 percent of Europe's population, instead of a third as it did in reality.
From the alternate history book The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. Malaria: a kingdom in the animated film Igor. Maldavia: principality in Eastern Europe that is mentioned by Muffy in the Arthur season 10 episode "Family Fortune". Manberg: See L'Manberg. Mandorra: European kingdom in the U.S. motion picture, The Brigand.
The Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt rely heavily on the idea that scientists must take responsibility for ensuring public understanding and responsible use of their discoveries. Robinson's scientists often emerge as the best people to direct public policy on important environmental and technological questions, of which politicians ...
Later -- and this was corrected in the British paperback -- he calls the present year 2002 "AH 1381", and there are a few other places where he seems to be using solar (Persian) Muslim years. He should have gone back and corrected the entire text. I've replaced "ca. 1400" for Chapter 1 with "1405". --User:Heian-794 0:01, Jan 11, 2005
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Years and Years is a dystopian science fiction drama [2] television miniseries [3] [4] written by Russell T Davies.Taking place between 2019 and 2034, [5] the six-part series follows the lives of the Lyons family, who witness increasingly tumultuous global affairs and the rise to power of Vivienne Rook, an outspoken British celebrity businesswoman turned populist politician whose controversial ...