Perhaps Robinson's finest novel, '2312' is a treasured gift to fans of passionate storytelling readers will be with Swan and Wahram in the tunnel long after reaching the last page.', 2312 is a monumental tour-de-force that re-imagines the solar system in ways no one has envisioned before. Now she will be led into a plot to destroy them.Ī brilliant, plausible account of how humans might colonize planets, moons and asteroids,2312is also about the future of art and family., Robinson's extraordinary completeness of vision results in a magnificently realized, meticulously detailed future in which social and biological changes keep pace with technological developments., A brilliant, plausible account of how humans might colonize planets, moons and asteroids, 2312 is also about the future of art and family., 'In his vibrant, often moving new novel, '2312,' Robinson's extrapolation is hard-wired to a truly affecting personal love story. Swan was once a woman who designed worlds. For Swan Er Hong, it is an event that will change her life. It is an unexpected death, but one that might have been foreseen. The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future.

Earth is no longer humanity's only home new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future.

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Science Fiction Novel The year is 2312. From the acclaimed author of New York 2140 and Red Mars, this NYT bestselling novel tells the story of a future where humanity has populated miraculous new habitats engineered across the solar system-and the one death that triggers a precarious chain of events that could destroy it all.

2312 by kim stanley robinson