If you need me to do so, I would call it speculative fiction rather than science fiction, which it can only be linked … One of Robinson's more interesting works however, is The Years of Rice and Salt (2002), an alternate history novel where the Black Plague wipes out European civilization, charting the progress of a world dominated by Muslim, Buddhist, Daoist, Confuscianist and Hindu culture and philosophies. Kim Stanley Robinson’s alternate history novel The Years of Rice and Salt caused a sensation in the SF world when it came out in 2004. In this novel, the Black Death kills all Europeans with the exception of small pockets in northern Scotland. The first two major iterations of monotheism eliminated, The Years of Rice and Salt posits a Jonbar point wherein Black Death wipes out 99% of Christendom and Judaism in Europe. "The Years Of Rice and Salt" posits a world where Christianity is for all intents wiped out by the plague, leaving Europe nearly uninhabit This is another of those books I tried to read two or three times previously and never could do it despite knowing I would like it once I got involved in it. At times it seems much too short, stuffed as it is with ideas about everything: politics, ecology, science, religion, history.
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The Years of Rice and Salt: A Novel by Kim Stanley Robinson, is a 784 epic covering an alternative historical time line from the Middle Ages to (roughly) the present. More By and About This Author.
It's basically a character and life study, a series of mini-biographies of characters living in an alternate history spanning hundreds of years of time.
The Years of Rice and Salt necessarily has a extensive cast of characters from the several major eras explored in the novel. The Years of Rice and Salt: Amazon.co.uk: Robinson, Kim Stanley: 9780006511489: Books It's hard to review in part because it's a very interesting and unusual book. In essence laying out the red carpet for Islam to expand westwards and China eastwards, Robinson revisions the world to be dominated by these two major powers. Buy The Years of Rice and Salt by Robinson, Kim Stanley from Amazon's Fiction Books Store.
Kim Stanley Robinson, Years of Rice and Salt I can’t deny it, mired in my own chaoses, subject to the bad plotting of my own life and unrelenting happenstance. The characters keep reincarnating in different eras, their fates tangled together, important to each other in each life they share. THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT Kim Stanley Robinson, Author.