Bill connected the novel’s conclusion to an odd and tantalizing Douglas Rushkoff article, while drawing a link to David Graeber’s important work on debt and debt jubilees and also finding this Kim Stanley Robinson thought about how science fiction works on the present and future.īill also published an extensive reflection on how the novel imagines and responds to the present and the future. Vanessa pointed us to the great archy and mehitabel. In response to last week’s blog post Paul meditated on comparisons to other novels. The novel was up for a Hugo award this year, but lost out last night to The Stone Sky. And there’s been plenty! Once again the online, distributed book club model proves itself. Let me begin by pulling together online commentary and links from readers so far. For all posts on this reading, click here.) (If you’d like more information on the reading plan and the schedule we followed, click here. Now I’d like to make space for some additional reflections, both mine and yours. Today I’d like to wrap up our online book club‘s reading of Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140.*įor weeks we’ve been working through the novel, chapter by chapter.
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