by Kim Stanley Robinson · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783453319004
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«New York 2140» is the science fiction novel by Kim Stanley Robinson, published by Heyne Verlag in hardback (813 pages, in German).
In 2140, the sea has flooded New York, turned into Venice: life takes place in the upper floors and the rich occupy the skyscrapers. Denver has replaced the city as financial center, and the country has been returned to nature. The novel New York 2140 follows several inhabitants and the social consequences of this transformation.
German translation by Jakob Schmidt. Edition published in 2018.
For science fiction readers interested in climate fiction and urban dystopias.
Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer best known for his Mars trilogy of novels. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes, featuring scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the World Fantasy Award. The Atlantic magazine has called Robinson's work "the gold standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing." According to The New Yorker magazine, Robinson is "generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers."
