Description
Description
As Bold Bardash, a military horseman, 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. So die the ancestors of Da Vinci, Newton, and Shakespeare. A novel of the past 700 years as it could have been.
About the Author
About the Author
Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed The Ministry for the Future, Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Galileo's Dream. He has been named as one of Time magazine's "Heroes of the Environment." He serves on the board of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"A thoughtful, magisterial alternate history from one of science fiction's most important writers."--The New York Times Book Review
"Exceptional and engrossing."--New York Post
"Ambitious . . . ingenious."--Newsday PRAISE FOR KIM STANLEY ROBINSON'S Red Mars WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL "A tremendous achievement."--The Washington Post Book World
"An absorbing novel . . . a scientifically informed imagination of rare ambition at work."--The New York Times Book Review "Promises to become a classic . . .This is epic science fiction in the best sense of the term-thoughtful, provoking, and haunting."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Exceptional and engrossing."--New York Post
"Ambitious . . . ingenious."--Newsday PRAISE FOR KIM STANLEY ROBINSON'S Red Mars WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL "A tremendous achievement."--The Washington Post Book World
"An absorbing novel . . . a scientifically informed imagination of rare ambition at work."--The New York Times Book Review "Promises to become a classic . . .This is epic science fiction in the best sense of the term-thoughtful, provoking, and haunting."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Del Rey Books
Pub date:
2003-06-03
Length:
784 pages
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