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The Great Plague destroyed Europe. Now the world’s a different place … From the award-winning author of the Mars trilogy, ‘the ultimate in future history’ (Daily Mail), comes the most ambitious alternate history novel ever written.



Trade Review

‘One of the finest working novelists in any genre’
GUARDIAN

'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’
NEW YORK TIMES

Praise for THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT:

‘A dazzling work of speculation with all the qualities of a great historical novel – it is by turns thrilling, tragic, funny and thoughtful’
SCOTSMAN

‘A 600-year tapestry of striving, joy, unhappiness and ambiguity … this marvellous book may be the most hopeful thing you read for a long time.’
EVENING STANDARD

‘Stunning’
GUARDIAN

‘A huge, complex and highly enjoyable book’
NEW SCIENTIST

Years of Rice and Salt

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    A Paperback by Kim Stanley Robinson

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint HarperCollins
      Published 2 March 2003
      ISBN-13 9780006511489
      978-0006511489
      ISBN-10 0006511481
      Also in:
      Contemporary Fiction Dystopian & Alternative History Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Great Plague destroyed Europe. Now the world’s a different place … From the award-winning author of the Mars trilogy, ‘the ultimate in future history’ (Daily Mail), comes the most ambitious alternate history novel ever written.



      Trade Review

      ‘One of the finest working novelists in any genre’
      GUARDIAN

      '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’
      NEW YORK TIMES

      Praise for THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT:

      ‘A dazzling work of speculation with all the qualities of a great historical novel – it is by turns thrilling, tragic, funny and thoughtful’
      SCOTSMAN

      ‘A 600-year tapestry of striving, joy, unhappiness and ambiguity … this marvellous book may be the most hopeful thing you read for a long time.’
      EVENING STANDARD

      ‘Stunning’
      GUARDIAN

      ‘A huge, complex and highly enjoyable book’
      NEW SCIENTIST

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