Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as eye-opening, this alternative history of the last 600 Years begins as the Black Death kills nearly everyone in Europe, and China, India, and the nations of Islam now control the world. ingenious.-- Newsday. . .
Exceptional and engrossing.-- New York Post Ambitious .
Probing the most profound questions as only he can, Robinson shines his extraordinary light on the place of religion, culture, power--and even love--in this bold New World.
Through the eyes of soldiers and kings, explorers and philosophers, slaves and scholars, Robinson navigates a world where Buddhism and Islam are the most influential and practiced religions, while Christianity is merely a historical footnote.
But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that could have been--one that stretches across centuries, sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, and spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation.
History teaches us that a third of Europe\'s population was destroyed.
A thoughtful, magisterial alternate history from one of science fiction\'s most important writers.-- The New York Times Book Review 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. . . .
In his grandest work yet, the acclaimed storyteller constructs a world vastly different from the one we know.
With the same unique vision 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.
Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as eye-opening, this alternative history of the last 600 Years begins as the Black Death kills nearly everyone in Europe, and China, India, and the nations of Islam now control the world
