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Kerensa
gatherer
Username: Kerensa
Post Number: 172
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 11:00 pm: |     |
I found this book at the library today.
"The Years of Rice and Salt - Imagine a World without Europe". First published 2002.
'New Scientist' called it "A huge, complex and highly enjoyable book"
"A vanguard of the Mongol horde rides west across the steppes into an eerily silent world. People lie dead in villages and in the streets of towns. The Black Death has struck Europe. There are virtually no survivors.
Into this empty land pour merchants, warlords and refugees, and from this day forward history is shaped by the East instead of the West. Japanese ships cross the Pacific Ocean and Chinese ships cross the Atlantic to colonise the New World, while a scientific revolution is begun in Samarkand.
And the destinies of a cast of unforgettable characters weave a bight new pattern through seven hundred years of history as it never was, but might have been."
Some of you might be interested. |
Annie
storyteller
Username: Annie
Post Number: 809
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - 11:08 pm: | |
Sounds interesting, Kerensa, thanks. If you're planning to read it, let us know how you liked it afterwards.  |
Puffnpuss
bear cub
Username: Puffnpuss
Post Number: 11
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 03, 2004 - 5:04 pm: | |
Kim Stanley Robinson usually writes a pretty good book. On that basis alone I'd give it a try.
The Dude abides. |
Kerensa
gatherer
Username: Kerensa
Post Number: 179
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 11:25 am: | |
I only read about 12 pages and then Robert. J. Sawyer was more important for the read through.
But in the read through nothing much happens so far.
Today I will start again Kim Stanley Robinson. |
Kerensa
gatherer
Username: Kerensa
Post Number: 181
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 13, 2004 - 12:35 pm: | |
I edited my post but must have made a mistake because the old version stayed here. Sorry |
Kerensa
gatherer
Username: Kerensa
Post Number: 182
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 13, 2004 - 12:35 pm: | |
I read a bit on Sawyers page and found this here about Kim Stanley Robinson. Interesting.
"Hybrids is a classic example of a SF story leading its readers into confronting questions that they might rather have not asked. Among hard SF writers Sawyer most resembles Kim Stanley Robinson in his willingness to indulge in exposition and scene-setting." from SFsite Review of Sawyers books.
http://www.kimstanleyrobinson.net/
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Thalion
storyteller
Username: Thalion
Post Number: 882
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Monday, June 14, 2004 - 10:13 am: | |
---But in the read through nothing much happens so far.---
Then make something happen. 
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they pass by - Douglas Adams |
Bartholomewcm
gatherer
Username: Bartholomewcm
Post Number: 207
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 25, 2004 - 11:17 pm: | |
Those seeking a visualization of Robinson's Mars trilogy are directed to Arthur C. Clarke's 1994 non-fiction compendium of CGI image projections, The Snows of Olympus.
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Kerensa
hunter
Username: Kerensa
Post Number: 426
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, June 05, 2006 - 6:02 pm: | |
I need help for some dates in the book. I am nearly finished and the book is amazing!
Hegira of Mohammed -0-
>before Hegira - after Hegira<
Year 3 of Tang dynasty
(Buddhist Year 1122)
(Christian Year 622 A.D.)
The chapters have this dates of years:
783 - 970 - 1030 - 1050 - 1190 - 1210 - 1333 - 1400 -
last one 1423 and underneath he writes
Isfahan Conference
(The 25th Year of China's 5th Military Assemblage)
(Year 2525 Buddhist Calendars)
(Christian Year 2002 A.D.)
Note: Islamic and Chinese calendars are lunar, Christian and Buddhist calendars are solar.
I can't make head nor tales of it! Numbers are my very week point.
I would like to know the Christian years so I can understand when they went to the different states/continents.
Thank you
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Kerensa
hunter
Username: Kerensa
Post Number: 427
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 7:39 pm: | |
Ok, nobody can help me, never mind! I googled but found nothing! |
Kerensa
hunter
Username: Kerensa
Post Number: 428
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 8:34 pm: | |
Here is a Review about "Years of Rice and Salt" if you are interested.
http://www.sfsite.com/06b/yr130.htm |
Prehistorical Fiction, SF and Fantasy