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I was supposed to read this for a September group read, but I had to quit before I died of boredom. I made it through 17% before reaching this decision, and cannot fathom spending close to another 19 fucking hours listening to this thing. Bottom line - too many characters, overly bloated writing, and nowhere near enough of a point. I don't really care about what kind of stone people are tying their boats off to in a flooded New York, or if they walk across the man-made footpaths linking building...
This is a compelling idea ruined by flabby writing and awful dialogue. I got angrier and angrier at the waste of my time as I read this. The level of my anger is totally unwarranted. All I can tell you is how I feel.Best stuff: descriptions of the disaster and how the city came through it, technical descriptions of the problems of life in partly submerged skyscrapers.Worst stuff: WHY DO ALL THESE CHARACTERS FROM DIFFERENT WALKS OF LIFE SEEM TO THINK AND TALK THE SAME TO ME!?! It's maddening.Afte...
2.5ish stars.An epic slice-of-life story. Is that too big of a contradiction? It's a behemoth and I don't think it really needs to be. I feel like I still would have caught Robinson's vision and adequately understood all of the relevant points with about 200 fewer pages. The future vision of New York is really cool, especially because it's so much more recognizable and believable than 90% of dystopian/cli-fi/whatever novels that take place in the future. There are many similar books with much mo...
This is a novel of great and towering ideas, indeed!SF idea novels have a long and fantastic tradition in SF and I'll be honest: I love them all. It's a very specific and niche SF, but thank the heavens, Robinson made it big enough in people's estimations to be able to keep writing the fantastically deep stuff and let the world-building go wild.Remember 2312? Remember the Mars trilogy? He dives deep into location and gives us a very broad view of a whole world or a whole time, drilling deep into...
Don't miss this week's Book Geeks Uncompromised podcast episode!1.5 starsJust over hundred years in the future parts of the ice caps have melted, causing the sea level to rise fifty feet, submerging many coastal cities. New York, however, still functions as a major metropolis despite the challenges to city buildings.While this is a fascinating premise, the delivery was way too bogged down in the author’s apparent passion for New York City and technical descriptions of the financial industry.The
I have often complained about the lack of climate change novels. This is a novel about climate change and you know what? I absolutely loved it! ‘New York 2140’ was just what I wanted: a big novel about a city, its people, and its politics changing with the climate. As in Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson deftly examines environmental influences on society, the emergence of resistance, and a convincing future political economy using appealing characters, vivid settings, and satisfying plotting. More...
This is the first KSR's which I abandon (at 30%). I just can't get into it; nothing draws me in. Maybe it's a mood thing, but I didn't have this issue with his books so far. Perhaps I will revisit it in the future; time will tell.
This story is one where I feel like it's really hard to rate it so I've gone with a 3.75*s for now. This book is set in New York in the year 2140 when the ice has melted and the sea levels have risen. New York has grown exponentially upwards with more and more buildings soaring for the skies and many of the older ones either cracking, toppling or having to be sured up and made watertight. We follow an entire cast of characters who are all in some way connected to one another and to the building
Robinson’s epic of the Big Apple – post-climate catastrophe – follows multiple characters living in the same high-rise building. The various storylines converge around the search for two missing residents who may hold the answer to why a real estate group is suddenly trying to buy out the other residents and take over the building. Like all of Robinson’s novels, New York 2140 is peppered with political and economic lectures – some interesting, some tedious. The most transparent flaw in all of Ro...
About a third of the way though and getting so bored I had to stop and make a note about it. There's no story, just a bunch of people wandering around. The few plot hooks are flimsy and small. And some of the characters are just too explicitly mouthpieces for a political message. Bummed because KSR is one of my all time faves and his latest books have been exciting and interesting. This needed stronger editing.
It is amazing how urgent and relevant this novel remains, even though it was published in 2017 and takes place over a century from today. In contrast KSR’s latest novel, ‘The Ministry for the Future’, takes place a mere three decades later, and is a much more urgent call to action in terms of the impact of climate change.Already UN News reports that this year may be the third-hottest on record, with the average global temperature set to be about 1.2°C above the preindustrial (1850-1900) level in...
It’s no denying I’m a KSR fanboy. It’s also no denying I avidly share the same concerns as so many: climate change, rising inequality, the grip of finance on global politics. So I really wanted to like this book. And I did – up unto the first 250 pages. The remaining 363, not so much.As the cover and the title make clear, New York 2140 follows firmly in the line of Kim Stanley Robinson’s near future novels: there was Washington & climate change in the Science of the Capital trilogy, refurbished
