2312 [Paperback]

From the acclaimed author ofNew York 2140andRed Mars, this NYT bestselling novel tells the story of a future where humanity has populated miraculous new habitats engineered across the solar system -- and the one death that triggers a precarious chain of events that could destroy it all.

The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future.

The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. It is an unexpected death, but one that might have been foreseen. For Swan Er Hong, it is an event that will change her life. Swan was once a woman who designed worlds. Now she will be led into a plot to destroy them.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. Intellectually engaged and intensely humane in a way SF rarely is, exuberantly speculative in a way only the best SF can be, this is the work of a writer at or approaching the top of his game.
Iain M. Banks A brilliant, plausible account of how humans might colonize planets, moons and asteroids,2312is also about the future of art and family.
NPR Books A magnificent achievement . . . hugely imaginative and beautifully written.
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