The Years of Rice and Salt - Rilegato

Robinson, Kim Stanley

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ISBN 10: 0553109200 ISBN 13: 9780553109207

Casa editrice: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 2002

Riassunto

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. By the author of Red Mars.

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PRAISE FOR The Years of Rice and Salt

"Hugo winner Robinson follows three characters over seven centuries on an alternate Earth in which Islam and Buddhism are the dominant religions...Blessed with moments of wry and gentle beauty as friends and antagonists rediscover each other under different guises in exotically dangerous locales."
-Kirkus Reviews

PRAISE FOR KIM STANLEY ROBINSON’S Red Mars WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

“A tremendous achievement.”
–The Washington Post Book World

“An absorbing novel...a scientifically informed imagination of rare ambition at work.”
–The New York Times Book Review

“Promises to become a classic...This is epic science fiction in the best sense of the term–thoughtful, provoking, and haunting.”
–St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Green Mars WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

“Dense as a diamond and as sharp; it makes even most good novels seem pale and insignificant by comparison.”
–The Washington Post Book World

“Has the breathtaking scope, plausible science and intellectual daring that made Red Mars a hit.”
–Daily News of Los Angeles

Blue Mars WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

“If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be KIM STANLEY ROBINSON. Blue Mars represents a breakthrough even from his own consistently high level of achievement....Beautifully written...a landmark in the history of the genre.”
–The New York Times Book Review

“A complex and deeply engaging dramatization of
humanity’s future...exhilarating.”
–The Philadelphia Inquirer

L'autore:

Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of the Nebula and Hugo Award—winning Mars trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars, as well as The Martians, Antarctica, The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast, Pacific Edge, A Short, Sharp Shock, and other novels. He lives in Davis, California.

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• Editore: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0553109200
• ISBN 13: 9780553109207
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 658