This is a universe where the first ship to reach the New World travels across the Pacific Ocean from China and colonization spreads from west to east. Kim Stanley Robinson, “The Years of Rice and Salt” (2002) - Kim Stanley Robinson joins the exalted company of Faulkner, Proust, and Garcia-Marquez in the category of writers that I respect but do not particularly like reading. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Galileo's Dream.In 2008 he was named one of Time magazine's "Heroes of the Environment." The Years of Rice and Salt Posted on November 27, 2006 by Timothy Burke A couple of people responding in the “Production of History” thread have suggested Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Years of Rice and Salt for the week on time travel and alternate history. 1; 2; 3; First Prev 3 of 3 Go to page. The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. The Years of Rice and Salt. The Years of Rice and Salt. The Years of Rice and Salt: A Novel - Kindle edition by Robinson, Kim Stanley. Tuesday 05 March 2002 01:00. comments. ebook. The story follows six or seven individuals, though three in particular, as they are reincarnated over the ages. At times it seems much too short, stuffed as it is with ideas about … This is a universe where the Industrial Revolution is triggered by the world's greatest scientific minds—in India. This is a universe where the first ship to reach the New World travels across the Pacific Ocean from China and colonization spreads from west to east. HarperCollins, £7.99, 772 pages, paperback, published 3 February 2003.) Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. The main characters of The Years of Rice and Salt novel are John, Emma. Years of Rice and Salt is an instrumental post rock band based in London, United Kingdom. Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. This is a universe where the Industrial Revolution is triggered by the world's greatest scientific minds - in India. Jun 27, 2010 #41 Kriegdämmerung. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Galileo’s Dream.In 2008 he was named one of Time magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment.” Years of Rice and Salt, Backwards. Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. Nevertheless, The Years of Rice and Salt is for the most part a magnificent and endlessly fascinating book. The Years of Rice and Salt (Tahun-tahun beras dan garam) (2002) adalah sebuah novel sejarah alternatif yang dikarang oleh Kim Stanley Robinson.Novel ini menceritakan tentang dunia tanpa peradaban Kristen dan Eropa seperti yang kita ketahui sekarang. Thread starter The Doctor; Start date Jun 7, 2010; Prev. As one would expect from Robinson, the book is packed, almost overflowing, with ideas. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Years of Rice and Salt: A Novel. The Years of Rice and Salt PDF book by Kim Stanley Robinson Read Online or Free Download in ePUB, PDF or MOBI eBooks. ebook. The Years of Rice and Salt (2002) is Kim Stanley Robinson's latest novel, his first since 1997's Antarctica. The Years of Rice and Salt. by Kim Stanley Robinson. by Bantam Books. It is a dense, informed, impassioned and huge novel by an author who is a comprehensive and insatiable thinker. These are the years of rice and salt. Some preliminary notes: If you have Windows XP or Mac System X or later, you should be able to view Chinese, Arabic, and Greek characters. Read a sample Read a sample Description; Details; Reviews; With the same unique vision that brought his now classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. The Years of Rice and Salt spans almost two thousand years, taking the story from what we would call 0 BC all the way up until present day, without shirking a single era in between. These are the years of rice and salt. The Years of Rice and Salt is a sprawling, sumptuous fantasy novel about civilization, set against an alternate-historical backdrop of a world in which the Black Death of the 14th century wiped out almost the entire European population (in reality it took about half of it). Read a sample Read a sample Description; Details; Reviews; With the same unique vision that brought his now classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. These are the years of rice and salt. Individual lives are never more than a few dozen years apart, and each one is full of intricately researched detail ranging from architecture and technology to popular conceptions of leadership. Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt is a storehouse of thought. The Years of Rice and Salt While I find Kim Stanley Robinson’s Years of Rice and Salt interesting, I find it rather implausible. This is a universe where the first ship to reach the New World travels across the Pacific Ocean from China and colonization spreads from west to east. by Kim Stanley Robinson. These are the years of rice and salt. The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperCollins Voyager, £16.99, 724 pages, hardback; published 4 March 2002. ebook. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. by Kim Stanley Robinson. This is a universe where the Industrial Revolution is triggered by the world's greatest scientific minds—in India. These are the years of rice and salt. The Years of Rice and Salt It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur-the coming of the Black Death. “The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. The Years Of Rice And Salt by Robinson, Kim Stanley In an alternate history world in which the population of Europe is almost completely wiped out by the Black Death during the fourteenth century, three superpowers--China, India, and the nations of Islam--battle for supremacy in a World War destined to create a new world order. This is a universe where the Industrial Revolution is triggered by the world's greatest scientific minds—in India. Go. I'm finally updating this again as I read the book for the third time! Years of Rice and Salt. The near-total death of all Europeans strikes me as incredibly unlikely, so I have changed that to the death of 60-80% of the European population, which allows for the survival of a Christian majority in parts of Muslim Europe and several Christian-majority states. Read a sample Read a sample Description; Details; Reviews; With the same unique vision that brought his now classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. The Years of Rice and Salt is an alternate history, one with a simple premise: what if the black death had killed off 99% of Europe's population instead of a third? ebook. The Years of Rice and Salt, the famous novel by Kim Stanley Robinson, has Christian Europe completely eradicated by the Black Plague, and eventually the world is split down the middle by China and Islam. Published in June 3rd 2002 the book become immediate popular and critical acclaim in fiction, science fiction books. This is a little off-topic, but does anyone know of any TLs where all of Eurasia is wiped out by the *plague? Novel ini dicalonkan pada tahun 2003 dalam Hugo Award untuk kategori novel terbaik. 2,171 likes. The Years of Rice and Salt. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Galileo’s Dream.In 2008 he was named one of Time magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment.” ― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt As you might have imagined, this is a novel loaded with meditations and commentaries on all sorts of subjects, including the spread of religion, the development of our spirituality, how loci of power can shift, the drive behind human discovery, our interpretation of suffering, and I think I’ve barely scratched the surface with these. The Years of Rice and Salt, it is rightly suggested by Robinson's interviewer Nick Gevers in the infinity plus guest-edited issue of Interzone, "may well become one of SF's key texts". Read a sample Read a sample Description; Details; Reviews; With the same unique vision that brought his now classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. This is a universe where the first ship to reach the New World travels across the Pacific Ocean from China and colonization spreads from west to east. Roz Kaveney. This is a universe where the first ship to reach the New World travels across the Pacific Ocean from China and colonization spreads from west to east. Setting himself the Scheherazadean labor of holding his readers through a chain of tales, a series of endings and beginnings in which we must let go of one story and then quickly be caught up again in the next, he pulls it off with a trapeze artist's grace. 128” ― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt 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. He might be the only scifi writer in that category. The Years of Rice and Salt takes places in a world where the Black Death killed ninety-nine percent of Europe's population. The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson After the Black Death, 700 years of new life. The Years of Rice and Salt spans almost two thousand years, taking the story from what we would call 0 BC all the way up until present day, without shirking a single era in between. The best-selling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt returns with a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation's capital - and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. (Bistami) Pg. This is a universe where the Industrial Revolution is triggered by the world's greatest scientific minds--in India. by Kim Stanley Robinson. History teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed. (Most recent update: October 13, 2006, covering Books I, II, and VII-VIII.) Article bookmarked. 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