The Years of Rice and Salt

Black Numenorean · 10-13-2007, 03:05 PM

I suggest reading this great science fiction and alternate history novel by Kim Stanley Robinson. It weaves together a bunch of stories in a scenario where the black plague killed 99% of Europe. This leaves Islam and Buddhism as the principal religions, and the middle-east and china as the principal world powers. Here is the wikipedia entry

GrayMouser · 10-21-2007, 07:58 AM

Have heard it's one of the best AH novels out there, and I'm a big fan of the worlds of "What-If"?

**Mari** · 11-23-2007, 08:19 PM

I'd like to read it, but I don't have time yet. Perhaps during the winterbreak AFTER finally writing my thesis...
Can't allow myself to start reading before it, because then I won't be able to put the book down and actually start doing what I have to do.

10-13-2007, 03:05 PM	#1
Black Numenorean Hobbit Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tol-Trainte Posts: 16	The Years of Rice and Salt I suggest reading this great science fiction and alternate history novel by Kim Stanley Robinson. It weaves together a bunch of stories in a scenario where the black plague killed 99% of Europe. This leaves Islam and Buddhism as the principal religions, and the middle-east and china as the principal world powers. Here is the wikipedia entry __________________ Gather round my children, for you shall hear the tale of Arhdfaes..... Yutin tarwenwe pisi epion Arhdfaes.....

10-21-2007, 07:58 AM	#2
GrayMouser Elf Lord Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ilha Formosa Posts: 2,068	Have heard it's one of the best AH novels out there, and I'm a big fan of the worlds of "What-If"? __________________ Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill

11-23-2007, 08:19 PM	#3
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	I'd like to read it, but I don't have time yet. Perhaps during the winterbreak AFTER finally writing my thesis... Can't allow myself to start reading before it, because then I won't be able to put the book down and actually start doing what I have to do. __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...