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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.
Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American science fiction writer best known for his Mars trilogy.Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes and feature scientists as heroes.
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Meggett began cooking and offering home help to wealthy white families, including the Dodge family, who regularly visited Edisto Island from Maine and employed Meggett on and off for 45 years. [1] She also worked as secretary at a community center for 28 years, quitting only after the office received computers.
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 ...
A story about an 8-year-old girl named Bessy who doesn't care about garbage and puts a mess anywhere she goes. When the fairy of all cleanliness saw this, she cursed Bessy and was chased by garbage everywhere she goes, giving her the ability to mimic its traits. In the end, the fairy undos her curse as she starts to care for the environment.