New York 2140 [Paperback]

New York Timesbestselling 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.Kim Stanley Robinsonis aNew York Timesbestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimedForty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt, and2312. In 2008, he was named a Hero of the Environment byTimemagazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California. 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 Kim Stanley Robinson envilÁ