The Years of Rice and Salt - Couverture rigide

Robinson, Kim Stanley

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0002246791 ISBN 13 : 9780002246798

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

The Great Plague destroyed Europe. Now the world’s a different place … From the award-winning author of the Mars trilogy, `the ultimate in future history’ (Daily Mail), comes the most ambitious alternate history novel ever written.

As Bold Bardash, a horseman in the army of Temur the Lame, rides west across the steppe and on to the Magyar Plain, he comes across a town in which everyone lies dead. Long dead. Plague has struck Europe. Kali’s black blanket has fallen over the lands of the West and nothing will ever be the same again.

Into this empty land pour the opportunists: the merchants, slavers and warlords. The Chinese cross the oceans in their huge fleets; the Arabs traverse the deserts by camel and mule and the Mediterranean by dhow. The last Europeans are killed or enslaved – consigned to the seraglios of the sultans. So die the ancestors of Da Vinci and Copernicus; Columbus and Machiavelli; the Spanish Inquisition and the Conquistators; Shakespeare, Newton and the Pilgrim Fathers; Einstein and Hitler. And the world becomes a different place.

In this extraordinarily ambitious, poetic and powerful novel, Kim Stanley Robinson takes us on a journey through seven hundred years of history as it never was, but might have been.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952. After travelling and working around the world, he settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched scientific basis of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win and is the author of the massively successful and highly praised ‘Mars’ series.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0002246791
• ISBN 13: 9780002246798
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 688
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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