The first, a massive calamity caused by rising temperatures melting Antarctic ice, cause sea levels to rise ten feet in ten years. "New York 2140" is Robinson's most straightforward attempt to imagine the consequences of our environmental inaction today. His stories are adventures first, but they keep coming back to the anxiety that, as a species, we're wrecking the planet, and we don't really have a good imagination of what the planet is going to look like afterward. Is this fragile environment portable? Can we fix it if we break it? What is there left to do if we can't? Robinson's past books mostly been set in space - on interstellar starships or amid the long terraforming project of the planet Mars - but they've centered on questions of how we treat planet Earth. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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