New York is still a vibrant city with horribly uneven income distribution. Finally, there’s an anonymous, sarcastic “citizen” who helps narrate, outlining the events that led up to novel. by Kim Stanley Robinson Read by Suzanne Toren, Robin Miles, Peter Ganim. Charlotte is a social advocate who helps run the Met building, and Vlade is the building’s super.
Amelia is a bubbly nature video blogger who travels the world in an airship, documenting the fragile nature of the world’s biosphere.
Franklin is a hedge fund manager who’s making a decent living betting on a housing bubble with real estate prices in the drowned coastlines, while 12-year-olds Stefan and Roberto are looking to literally strike it rich when they come across a centuries-old sunken treasure under the ruins of the Bronx. There’s Mutt and Jeff, a pair of programmers who are kidnapped after they unleash a bug in the financial markets, while Inspector Gen, an imposing and well-connected city police officer, sets off to look into their disappearance. Robinson depicts that life with a multitude of characters, all of whom come together around the building that they all inhabit, Manhattan’s MetLife Tower. What does he know Kim Stanley Robinson’s novels envision the dire problems of the futurebut also their solutions. In 2140, New York City is the new Venice, with canals replacing its streets, and people going about their lives in this new world. The science-fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson wrote the great climate-change novel.
Robinson imagines a world where humanity doesn’t react in time to slow down climate change.
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