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RE: Book Club (Feb 2018) - Rynn - 02-17-2018
Looks like Diaspora grabs it by a smidgen
Enjoy reading folks! I'll make a discussion thread next week for it.
RE: Book Club (Feb 2018) - Duddy9 - 02-22-2018
I've just finished a book that I really enjoyed and would like to recommend to the forum book club.
Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140
![[Image: imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimages-na.ss...mrc&uact=8]](http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimages-na.ssl-images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F51PD2AvCiZL._SX319_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FNew-York-2140-Science-Capital%2Fdp%2F031626234X&docid=Hfmz24iTCEkv-M&tbnid=JTKlyzAPN0KGtM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwj83vO6ubfZAhXBC-wKHUgxAiAQMwgxKAAwAA..i&w=321&h=499&bih=925&biw=1920&q=New%20York%202140&ved=0ahUKEwj83vO6ubfZAhXBC-wKHUgxAiAQMwgxKAAwAA&iact=mrc&uact=8)
It's a hard science fiction novel based on finance and environmental science, with a fair dob of politics included. The characters are all enjoyable and relatable and the scenes describing a world set 122 years in the future fundamentally altered by climate change, are intriguing (I want to see this world!). Basically the book is an optimistic story set in a dystopian world, but really the book is a love letter to New York - past, present and future.
This is only the second KSR book I've read, the first being 2312. The books seems to be set in the same meta-universe as 2312 and the Mars trilogy, so if you enjoyed them you might enjoy this.