New York 2140
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NOMINATED FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2018
'A towering novel' - Guardian
'Relevant and essential' - Bloomberg Businessweek
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…
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My home port, New York City, never stops entertaining me, with endless pockets of culture to explore. Kim Stanley Robinson’s book centers on parts of Manhattan that I know very well, like Madison Square Park, and reimagines them in a Venice-like environment, with most of the city’s streets submerged in water.
While climate change is clearly at play, this book isn’t all doom-and-gloom. There’s a somewhat quirky cast of characters that all inhabit the same building and include a media star known for her airship escapades and a couple of coders whose disappearance has monumental consequences for the financial industry.…
From Janet's list on novels that wonder about the future.
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