![]() ![]() ![]() This is an enormous book, a challenging one, an unerringly personal one – in both its often unconventional form and its quirky reach, it's an antidote to the lock-step stylistic somnolence of so much contemporary mainstream science fiction. ![]() In Paperback 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson Orbit, 2012 Readers of Kim Stanley Robinson’s hyper-intelligent science fiction are accustomed to his fascination with world-building (his justly-revered Mars trilogy) and with sprawling narrative landscapes (particularly his masterpiece, The Years of Rice and Salt ), and his latest, now in paperback (one of those slightly-taller-than-normal rack paperbacks that feel so curiously comfortable in the hand and fits neatly in absolutely no type of bag or satchel ever invented), 2312, beautifully combines the two elements on a scale the author has never before achieved. ![]()
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