But it’s being a science fiction author that has landed Kim Stanley Robinson on the global literary map and The New York Times bestseller list.

Time magazine has called him a hero of the environment. Enjoy this nice intervention by Kim Stanley Robinson in the New Yorker. The New Yorker has called him one of the most important political writers working in America today. Robinson's work has a strong, intelligent social conscience - GQ Starkly beautiful and fundamentally optimistic - THE CONVERSATION Only sci-fi can drown Manhattan and make you want to live there - BLOOMBERG BUSINESS WEEK This may well be Robinson's masterpiece and is surely the most important piece of sf in years - MORNING STAR There have been more than a few environmental catastrophe tales set in a future New York, but possibly none of them have been this interesting - LOCUS One of the most exciting books in climate change fiction yet written. Greetings from my shelter in Milwaukee to wherever you are in the world. Robinson handles setpieces with aplomb - SFX It's near impossible to capture the vibrance of the entire city in the span of one single novel, yet Kim Stanley Robinson manages to do just that and more - NEWSWEEK Like all great sci-fi, New York 2140 is as much inward-looking as it is forward-. In our new series Imagining the Next Future, Polygon explores the new era of science fiction in movies, books, TV, games, and beyond to see how storytellers and innovators are. What does he know Kim Stanley Robinson’s novels envision the dire problems of the futurebut also their solutions. a thoughtful, innovative page turner - STARBURST Even at 600-plus pages, there's a leanness to the prose that keeps the plot moving forwards.

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An immensely enjoyable reading experience * SciFiNow * Robinson's writing is so evocative that you can imagine that any one of his paragraphs could feature in the film of the book.

New York 2140 is a towering novel about a genuinely grave threat to civilisation - GUARDIAN Robinson seamlessly binds together characters and narrative strands. Robinson is one of the world's finest working novelists, in any genre.

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