![]() ![]() Sounds grim, right? But the book is, at heart, more an adventure novel than anything else, with a cast of characters - all living in a modified version of the MetLife building - making their way through a few years in a New York City that sounds a lot like New York today. The natural rise of Manhattan’s landscape means the Cloisters are the new Wall Street, and lower Manhattan is the “intertidal zone,” where the water washes up to 46th Street every 12 hours and washes back down. The oceans are about 50 feet higher than before Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx are shallow, toxic seas and what life remains is mainly in the skyscrapers, which are firmly sunk in the bedrock. In New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson, one of the towering giants of the science-fiction genre, envisions our city after it has been vastly changed by global warming. ![]() A look at the Manhattan of Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140. ![]()
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