He lives in Davis, California.Ĭo-Organized by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia GSAPP, and Orbit Books. In 2008, he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. Kim Stanley Robinsons New York 2140 is a new kind of Anthropocene novel called cli-fi (climate fiction), a genre focused on the projected and/or actual. The novel received generally positive reviews. The novel is set in a New York City that has been flooded and altered by rising water. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt and 2312. New York 2140 is a 2017 climate fiction novel by American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson. Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards.

Through the eyes of the varied inhabitants of one building Kim Stanley Robinson shows us how one of our great cities will change with the rising tides. Last summer, the science-fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson went on a backpacking trip with some friends. Though changed forever.Įvery street became a canal. The waters rose, submerging New York City.īut the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been. Kim Stanley Robinson participated in a Tribute to Richard Powers, discussed with Powers in a Conversation about the Art of Fiction and introduced him to the award. Presentation by Kim Stanley Robinson on the release of his latest novel, New York 2140 (Orbit, 2017)

Critical, Curatorial & Conceptual Practices By 2140 sea level has risen by around fifty feet, leaving coastal cities the world over with major problems.

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