Saturday, August 22, 2020

New York 2140 (by Kim Stanley Robinson)

This was okay. I read it for the "book about climate change" category and it took me a long time to get through it. By the end I wasn't really enjoying any of the characters, and I wanted more of a clear plot.  It's about New York in the year 2140 (as you may have guessed) when half the island is underwater due to climate change. The worldbuilding is good. The narrative jumps back and forth among multiple characters and none of them have a particularly compelling emotional throughline.

I generally love speculative fiction, but something about this made it a slog for me. 

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