New York 2140
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Publisher Description
Az óceán szintje megemelkedett, és New York városa elsüllyedt. A lakói alkalmazkodtak az új helyzethez, és New York ugyanaz a nyüzsgő, élettel teli metropolisz maradt, ami mindig is volt - noha örökre megváltozott. Minden egyes utca csatornává vált, minden egyes felhőkarcoló egy szigetté. Kim Stanley Robinson az egyik épület különböző lakóinak szemén át mutatja meg nekünk, hogyan alakul át világunk egyik legnagyszerűbb városa az apállyal és a dagállyal. És mivé alakul eközben maga az ember.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Unlike J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World, which was also set on a mid-22nd-century Earth devastated by global warming but focused on the effects of that cataclysm on the human psyche, Robinson's latest near-future novel examines the political and economic implications of dramatically higher ocean levels, specifically their effects on New York City. The writing, ironically, is dry; several sections are exposition-heavy. They not only explain why 2140 Lower Manhattan is submerged but contain dense analyses of how investments in real estate could be evaluated via a "kind of specialized Case-Shiller index for intertidal assets." Such sections illustrate the comprehensive thought Robinson (2312) has given to his imagined future, but they slow down the various interesting narrative threads, which concern a diverse cast of characters, including a reality-TV star who travels above the U.S. aboard an airship; the superintendent of the old MetLife building, which now contains a boathouse; and an NYPD inspector called in to investigate the disappearance of two coders. Readers open to an optimistic projection of how humans could handle an increasingly plausible environmental catastrophe will find the info dumps worth wading through.)
