To The Last Page

The cover of Kim Stanley Robinson's latest exploration of man, nature and science might be a little deceptive, but only just a little. The image of a future New York with lower Manhattan flooded, presumably in the year 2140, is certainly representative of the focus that the author places on an important city and how it might very likely be affected by climate change in the near future, but this is not just another work of speculative environmental disaster fiction. Kim Stanley Robinson doesn't waste time on the hows and whys of something that seems inevitable to anyone who knows that we've already passed the point of no return as far as environmental change is concerned and just how likely such disastrous repercussions will be. No, Robinson is more interested in how we choose to move forward after the inevitable happens. This is typical of Kim Stanley Robinson. He's not content to just spin an entertaining science-fiction adventure in a futuristic New York, nor does he ...