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The years of rice and salt

Kim Stanley Robinson · 2002 · Novel

Setting: alternate history

Synopsis

With the incomparable vision and breathtaking detail that brought his now-classic Marstrilogy to vivid life, bestselling author KIM STANLEY ROBINSON boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. In his grandest work yet, the acclaimed storyteller constructs a world vastly different from the one we know....The Years of Rice and SaltIt is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur--the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed. But what if?

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Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: FictionBlack DeathScience FictionLong Now Manual for CivilizationFiction, alternative historyScience Fiction - GeneralFiction - Science FictionAmerican literature

isfdb_id: 22722

openlibrary_id: OL81659W

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