The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Years of Rice and Salt

by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Great Plague destroyed Europe. Now the world’s a different place … From the award-winning author of the Mars trilogy, ‘the ultimate in future history’ (Daily Mail), comes the most ambitious alternate history novel ever written.

As Bold Bardash, a horseman in the army of Temur the Lame, rides west across the steppe and on to the Magyar Plain, he comes across a town in which everyone lies dead. Long dead. Plague has struck Europe. Kali’s black blanket has fallen over the lands of the West and nothing will ever be the same again.

Into this empty land pour...

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I am a huge Kim Stanley Robinson fan, and this book exceeded even my expectations. A thoughtful, engaging, and inspiring look at what might have been.

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