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The years of rice and salt by kim stanley robinson, paperback. Nov 21, 2011 stephen kings 112263 is only the latest book that imagines what might have been if history had gone a little differently. Buy the years of rice and salt reprint by robinson, kim stanle isbn. The years of rice and salt by chipmunken on deviantart. Complete summary of kim stanley robinson s the years of rice and salt. This is a universe where the industrial revolution is triggered by the worlds greatest scientific mindsin india. It explores the shape the world would have taken if 99% of the european population had been wiped out by the 14th century black plague. The years of rice and salt considers this question through the stories of individuals who experience and influence various crucial periods in the seven centuries that follow.
Description of the book the years of rice and salt. In the 14th century anno domini, the black plague decimates europe. Written by kim stanley robinson, narrated by bronson pinchot. Read the years of rice and salt a novel by kim stanley robinson available from rakuten kobo. Kim stanley robinson has a view of historical process that is refreshingly other to that of much science fiction. It is a dense, informed, impassioned and huge novel by an author who is a comprehensive and insatiable thinker. When the scouts of the mongol leader temur the lame tamburlaine enter hungary in 1405, they find only emptiness and death. The years of rice and salt won the locus award for. Buy the years of rice and salt by robinson, kim stanley from amazons fiction books store. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. The years of rice and salt by kim stanley robinson a novelist imagines 700 years of history in which the plague has wiped out the west and china and islam rule the globe. In this timeline, the black plague kills off the entire population of europe in the late 14th century, so its up to the muslim world, china, india, and the native americans to advance human civilization forward.
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