The Years Of Rice And Salt: Signed Hardcover – Import, January 1, by. Kim Stanley Robinson (Author) › Visit Amazon's Kim Stanley Robinson Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author/5(). The Years of Rice and Salt: A Novel by Kim Stanley Robinson, is a epic covering an alternative historical time line from the Middle Ages to (roughly) the present. Like all alternate histories, there is a point of departure.4/5(). A map of the world of the alternate history book "The Years of Rice and Salt", by Kim Stanley Robinson. This map is based on one from the book (which is credited to Jeffrey L. Ward), it shows the four main blocs or alliances on the eve of the "Long War" (specific date is AH or AD).
The Years of Rice and Salt is an alternative history novel published in Its working title was A World Without www.doorway.ru the 14th century Anno Domini, the Black Plague decimates Europe. The Muslim, Indian and Chinese civilizations are the ones that will drive world history, through hardships and wars, discoveries and revolutions. Kim Stanley Robinson's ambitious exploration of alternative history in The Years of Rice and Salt poses the daunting question "How would our world have developed without Europe?" (Or, rather, without European culture?) When the scouts of the Mongol leader Temur the Lame (Tamburlaine) enter Hungary in , they find only emptiness and death. Oddly enough, this is my first Kim Stanley Robinson novel, and I've seen a lot of folks say that it does not hold a candle to his Mars trilogy. If true, these books probably must be rated 10 out of 5 or something, because I haven't read a novel this original and this expansive in a while. Highly recommended.
The Years of Rice and Salt is an alternate history novel by American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, published in 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. A map of the world of the alternate history book "The Years of Rice and Salt", by Kim Stanley Robinson. This map is based on one from the book (which is credited to Jeffrey L. Ward), it shows the four main blocs or alliances on the eve of the "Long War" (specific date is AH or AD). Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. He is the author of eleven previous books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Fifty Degrees Below, Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Antarctica--for which he was sent to the Antarctic by the U.S. National Science Foundation as part of their Antarctic Artists and Writers' Program.
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