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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.
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 ...
"Down and Out in the Year 2000" – Originally published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1986. (subsequently anthologized) "Festival Night" (from Red Mars) In: Nebula Awards 29, 1995, ed. Pamela Sargent, ISBN 0-15-600119-5. "From 2312 (excerpt)" – Lightspeed Magazine, May 2012.
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No. I tried to say that there are similarities between Robinsons utopian Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt in the points of: long time scale; realistisc-utopian elements (i.e. ambivalence of utopia) reflections about human nature; So, YRC is the Mars utopia brought to earth. -- till we *) 22:07, Dec 7, 2003 (UTC) I'm confused, where ...
The novel is set in the year 2312, in the great city of Terminator on Mercury, which is built on gigantic tracks in order to constantly stay in the planet's habitable zone near the terminator. Swan Er Hong, an artist and former asteroid terrarium designer, is grieving over the sudden death of her step-grandmother, Alex, who was very influential ...
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