Aurora, Robinson Kim Stanley

Автор: Robinson Kim Stanley
Название: The Years of Rice and Salt
ISBN: 0553580078 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553580075
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: With the incomparable vision and breathtaking detail that brought his now-classic Mars trilogy 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 Salt
It 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? What if the plague killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that could have been a history that stretches across centuries, a history that sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, a history that spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation. These are the years of rice and salt.
This is a universe where the first ship to reach the New World travels across the Pacific Ocean from China and colonization spreads from west to east. This is a universe where the Industrial Revolution is triggered by the world s greatest scientific minds in India. This is a universe where Buddhism and Islam are the most influential and practiced religions and Christianity is merely a historical footnote.
Through the eyes of soldiers and kings, explorers and philosophers, slaves and scholars, Robinson renders an immensely rich tapestry. Rewriting history and probing the most profound questions as only he can, Robinson shines his extraordinary light on the place of religion, culture, power, and even love on such an Earth. From the steppes of Asia to the shores of the Western Hemisphere, from the age of Akbar to the present and beyond, here is the stunning story of the creation of a new world.

"From the Hardcover edition.""

Автор: Robinson Kim Stanley
Название: Red Mars
ISBN: 0007310161 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007310166
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: The first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson`s massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. `The ultimate in future history` Daily Mail

Автор: Stanley Robinson Kim
Название: Aurora
ISBN: 0356500489 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780356500485
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Aurora is the critically acclaimed new novel from one of SF`s most powerful voices, telling the incredible story of mankind`s first voyage beyond the solar system in search of a new home

Автор: Kim Stanley Robinson
Название: Years of Rice and Salt, The
ISBN: 0006511481 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006511489
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: In this alternate history novel, Bold Bardash, a horseman in the army of Temur the Lame, rides west across the steppe and on to the Magyar Plain, where he comes across a town in which everyone lies dead. The opportunists flood in, and the world becomes a different place.

Автор: Kim Stanley Robinson
Название: Green Mars
ISBN: 0586213902 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780586213902
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: The storming second volume in the bestselling Mars trilogy -- 'the ultimate in future history' (Daily Mail) Mars: the Green Planet. Man's dream of a new world is underway but corrupted. Red Mars is gone, ripped apart by the violent and failed revolution of 2062. The First Hundred have scattered or died, and for the moment their dreams with them. The rebels are underground, dreaming of their utopia. The transnational corporations have a dream, too. Mars can be plundered -- for the benefit of a ravaged Earth. It can be terraformed to suit Man's need -- frozen lakes form, lichen grows, the atmosphere slowly becomes breathable. But most importantly, Mars can be owned. On Earth, couries are bought and sold by the transnationals. Why not Mars too? Man's dream is underway, but so is his greatest test. The survivors of the First Hundred -- Hiroko, Nadia, Maya and Simon among them -- know that technology alone is not enough. Trust and co-operation are need to create a new world -- but these qualities are as thin on the ground as the air they breathe.