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New York 2140

Written by: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Robin Miles, Peter Ganim, Jay Snyder, Caitlin Kelly, Michael Crouch, Ryan Vincent Anderson, Christopher Ryan Grant, Robert Blumenfeld
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New York Times best-selling author Kim Stanley Robinson returns with a bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century.

As the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city. There is the market trader, who finds opportunities where others find trouble. There is the detective, whose work will never disappear—along with the lawyers, of course.

There is the internet star, beloved by millions for her airship adventures, and the building's manager, quietly respected for his attention to detail. Then there are two boys who don't live there, but have no other home—and who are more important to its future than anyone might imagine.

Lastly there are the coders, temporary residents on the roof, whose disappearance triggers a sequence of events that threatens the existence of all—and even the long-hidden foundations on which the city rests.
©2017 Kim Stanley Robinson (P)2017 Hachette Audio
Adventure Post-Apocalyptic Hard Science Fiction Space Opera
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"New York may be underwater, but it's better than ever."—The New Yorker
"Relevant and essential."—Bloomberg Businessweek

"Science fiction is threaded everywhere through culture nowadays, and it would take an act of critical myopia to miss the fact that Robinson is one of the world's finest working novelists, in any genre. New York 2140 is a towering novel about a genuinely grave threat to civilisation."—Guardian

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Meh

Book is meh, a large portion of the book is boring with few chapters in-between that are exciting. Nice concept on how life is in 2140 but could of been executed better. Over I wouldn’t recommend it unless you really like finance and stock markets.

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Casual antisemitism

Maybe I’m being hyper sensitive, but casual mention of the Jews controlling the money was one of the lies jilted used to perpetrate the Holocaust. It was a useless non-sequitur and threw me off the book completely.

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