This future New York is beset by emergent problems of our own time primarily, the effects of global warming due to the release of carbon, as well as the failures of the capitalist system. Finally, there’s the citizen, or sometimes it’s the city, with an historic perspective on the political and economic landscape of New York 2140.Īs Kim Stanley Robinson’s title suggests, this is futuristic New York. Also, Vlade, her superintendent, Franklin, a speculator on the stock market and real estate who specialises in the intertidal areas of drowned New York Stefan and Roberto, two orphan boys who stumble upon a fortune in gold from a sunken treasure and Amelia, young and beautiful with an internet show of her own, flying the world in her air ship to rescue animals. There’s Charlotte Armstrong, head of the Household Union for the building in which they all live. There’s Inspector Gen, a tall African-American police chief who is tasked with investigating their mysterious disappearance. There’re two guys, Mutt and Jeff, quants, meaning they are advanced computer programmers, who see the corruption of the system and attempt an ill-conceived hack to change things.
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