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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 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 ...
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 ...
Priest is a Florida native, born in Tampa in 1975. [1] She graduated from Forest Lake Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist boarding school in Apopka, Florida in 1993. She moved around quite a bit as a child of an Army father, living in many places such as Florida, Texas, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
"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.
Liu Kang, a character in the Mortal Kombat series; Meng Kang, a character in the Water Margin; Kang the Mad, a character in Jade Empire 2005 video game; Kang Tongbi or Widow Kang, a character in The Years of Rice and Salt 2002 counterfactual novel; Suzie Kang, an object-tracker in The Lost Room mini-series
The book follows two groups of characters, connected by 27 year-old Jim McPherson and his father Dennis. The Gold Coast was nominated for the Campbell , Locus , and British Science Fiction award in 1989.
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 ...