![]() Needless to say, New York as we know it is no more. But New Yorkers? Why, for good or for ill, they're New Yorkers still! Pedestrians must make do with jetties, or walk the dizzying bridges between those skyscrapers that haven't already collapsed after losing the ongoing fight to stay watertight. Nobody has a car anymore, but boats are mainstays on the waterways. Submerged, the streets between buildings are cast now as canals. ![]() ![]() ![]() Uptown, being uptown both figuratively and literally, came through the crises brought on by humanity's hard-to-kick carbon habit relatively well, but downtown, everything is different. Not for the first time, and not, I can only hope, for the last, Kim Stanley Robinson takes aim at climate change in New York 2140, an immensely necessary novel as absorbing as it is sprawling about how that city among cities, so close to so many hearts, moves forward following floods that raise the seas fifty feet. ![]()
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