![]() The fact that all these individuals are so different from each other makes its early stages a little sticky. New York 2140 does what Robinson’s award-winning Mars books did: it creates a whole world in such compelling detail that the reader starts to suspect the author has actually been there, in a time machine, and has come back to file what amounts to documentary reportage. They’re worse than the worse gods in Homer.” This means that in place of melodrama we get fine-grained future-realism. “Which god or idiot in Homer did that? None of them. “Immiserate the same people who keep you alive?” boggles one character, talking about the 1%. The villain in this novel is capitalism itself. Robinson is not a writer who does villains none of his characters here is evil, although some are grubbier and more compromised than others. This range and variety make summarising the plot a tricky business. ![]()
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