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From the acclaimed author of New York 2140 and Red Mars, this NYT bestselling novel tells the story of a future where humanity has populated miraculous new habitats engineered across the solar system -- and the one death that triggers a precarious chain of events that could destroy it all.

The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future.

The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. It is an unexpected death, but one that might have been foreseen. For Swan Er Hong, it is an event that will change her life. Swan was once a woman who designed worlds. Now she will be led into a plot to destroy them.

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575 pages
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Orbit
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May 22 2012
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Après une thèse consacrée à l'oeuvre de Philip K. Dick, Kim Stanley Robinson publie de nombreux romans et nouvelles qui l'imposent sur la scène internationale. Sa Trilogie martienne lui a valu une renommée mondiale. 2312 a paru chez Aces Sud en 2017. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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"A brilliant, plausible account of how humans might colonize planets, moons and asteroids, 2312 is also about the future of art and family." "NPR Books""

"A feast for the imagination and intellect - shockingly clever" "Sun (UK)""

"An sf masterpiece." ""Library Journal"""

"Beautifully written and with strong mental imagery" "SciFi Now""

"In his vibrant, often moving new novel, "2312," Robinson's extrapolation is hard-wired to a truly affecting personal love story. [...] Perhaps Robinson's finest novel, "2312" is a treasured gift to fans of passionate storytelling; readers will be with Swan and Wahram in the tunnel long after reaching the last page." "LA Times""

"Inherently epic stuff... expect interplanetary strife, conspiracies, more big ideas than most SF authors pack into a trilogy... [yet] this is ultimately in so many respects a book about Earth... a wise and wondrous novel" "SFX""

"Intellectually engaged and intensely humane in a way SF rarely is, exuberantly speculative in a way only the best SF can be, this is the work of a writer at or approaching the top of his game." "Iain M. Banks""

"Robinson's extraordinary completeness of vision results in a magnificently realized, meticulously detailed future in which social and biological changes keep pace with technological developments." "Publishers Weekly""

"This is a grand tour of an intensely imagined interplanetary future of modified human beings, terraformed planets, experiments in economics and sociology and hundreds of other delights. All of it is in Robinson's eloquent, enthusiastic and inimitable prose" "Morning Star (UK)""

"2312 is a monumental tour-de-force that re-imagines the solar system in ways no one has envisioned before. Whether comparing the compositions of Beethoven to those of skylarks and warblers, or describing a life-threatening sunrise on Mercury, Robinson fills 2312 with joy and exuberance, danger and fear, and the steadily mounting suspense of a mystery that spans the planets. This is the finest novel yet from the author who gave us the Mars Trilogy and GALILEO'S DREAM. An amazing accomplishment." "Robert Crais"" --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004RD8544
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Orbit (May 22 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2571 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 575 pages

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Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. He is the author of eleven previous books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Fifty Degrees Below, Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Antarctica--for which he was sent to the Antarctic by the U.S. National Science Foundation as part of their Antarctic Artists and Writers' Program. He lives in Davis, California.

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D. Merriam

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Reviewed in Canada on August 31, 2019

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The science that KSR was extrapolating on is now slightly outdated, as various measures of the climate feedback mechanisms we've triggered are outstripping the conservative predictions in past IPCC reports. In real-life 2019, we are later in The Dithering and closer to The Big Melt than we thought we'd be when 2312 was published - so that knowledge can pull the reader out of the story occasionally. That said, I found my third reading of this book enchanting as ever, with its ruminations on the futures of art, community, and politics in an era of space elevators, teerraformed planets, increased lifespans and huge computing power tied together by a ripping mystery plot'

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I'm amazed that he managed to jam such a big story ...

Reviewed in Canada on August 12, 2014

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KSR does it again! He is the bomb! I'm amazed that he managed to jam such a big story into only one book. As always, the work is incredibly well researched, and he's not standing still, still moving on into new worlds and ideas. He is a sci-fi treasure.

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Don Loughran

An Excellent Read for Futuristic Mystery Lovers

Reviewed in Canada on July 4, 2015

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2312 takes you to a time when routine, personal DNA modifications and worlds created out of asteroids are common place. It's in this environment that Robinson crafts a who-done-it mystery that spans the solar system. An excellent read.

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Ron

Ok story made complex for no benefits.

Reviewed in Canada on October 31, 2021

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Ok story but made way too complex and inter-chapter breaks were mostly nonsensical with little value.

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Chuck Mac

Good observation on what happens when we don't take care ...

Reviewed in Canada on September 1, 2017

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Good observation on what happens when we don't take care of our planet. Somewhat optimistic on the technical and economic possibilities in a 350 year period, maybe.
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Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on September 5, 2018

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good book

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msafiri

surprisingly good read

Reviewed in Canada on November 23, 2014

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Nice handling of current topics. Even the google-esque way some chapters are written. Choppy, but covers ideas from a wide variety of angles.

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Owen

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on May 22, 2018

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loved it

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John

Detective Novel with Solar System Tour

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 14, 2021

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This is an interesting read, although as ever with KSR I found a few sections less interesting than others – I suppose having read many of the author’s books, it should not be a surprise.
The world building is as ever excellent. We jump forward three centuries; the Solar System is colonised and ‘humans’ are not just humans anymore – a vast array of genetic modifications means there are dozens of types of people. All are represented – spacers, smalls, mixed sex, the list goes on. Our lead is Swan, a middle-aged artist, adventurer and well, all sorts. Her home is Terminator, a city on Mercury that moves with the sun to avoid burning up. Here KSR takes us on an evocative tour of the planet, and later we get the same treatment for asteroids turned into farms, spacecraft, zoos, and tourist attractions, we tour the moons and rings of Saturn, the skies of Venus and a climate change devasted Earth. Swan is slowly pulled into the world of politics, following in her grandmother’s footsteps as an unofficial representative of one of the main power blocks in the Solar System.
There are some oddities. The book is littered with chapters called ‘extracts’ which appear to be, well, random extracts from some text or other, and ‘lists’ which are, lists of stuff. I am not entirely sure of the purpose of these sections and I could have done without them. There is also a long chapter where Swan and another character as stuck in a long tunnel – perhaps there is some deeper meaning to it, but it passed me by.
Overall, this is worth a read for the world-building if nothing else – it is absolutely superb. The surfing on Saturn, the sailing on an ocean terrarium (terraformed asteroids), the trips around the ‘drowned’ planet Earth, which is always central to people – the homeland as it were.

John Chandler

Four stars, but only just.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 12, 2017

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I'm giving this four stars because I liked it, but only just. I can certainly understand the very mixed reviews, as the book has moments of great promise but also a disappointing lack of "something". The main plot seems to lurk in the background, and the resolution was anti-climactic, but there is a very coherent and interesting amount of world building (literally, in some instances!) going on as you would expect from the author. It's just a shame the potential wasn't fully realised.

If you're looking for a strong plot and a pacy style, this isn't the right book for you. For an exploration of the world of "2312", there's more of interest here. Coming to this after just finishing Aurora, and being a huge fan of the Mars trilogy, it's clear that the book has some links between both. 2312 seems to exist in a slightly alternative version of the Mars trilogy universe, and echoes some of the themes explored more fully in Aurora. It was these links and the exploration of the world that helped save the story for me.

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Raymond Walker

Good but not all that you may wish for.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 30, 2018

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I am a fan of "Hard Sci-fi" I have been for many a year and "Kim Stanley Robinson", in this book, treats the genre well. I enjoyed the book, the oddness and the characters. This book should have had a rave review from me, It did not, just a couple of little things put me off. He was not ready to go right out there with the hard sci-fi. The lists and asides were mainly dull and uninformative, trying to take it into the realms of hardcore sci-fi, but the story was too easy to read and too coherent to be considered such. A perfect outcome.
This is a great crossover book for those that like mainstream science fiction but think that they may wish to visit the "Dark Side" and enter the strange realms of Hard Sci-fi. In that, at least, Mr Robinson has done a good job.

Greenrig

I read the manual, but where the story?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 15, 2021

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This is an odd book. If you want to read about terraforming the Solar System, then there are more than enough details here for you. The locations move effortlessly ( in litle time, and apparently no cost) fom Mercury to Pluto. The small cast move around mainly to deliver messages and hold meetings - seems odd in 2312.
But, there's virtually no plot, no story, no arc of problems overcome. The protagonists are not attractive; being selfish, irritating and barely even character sketches. At least, Red Mars had some memorable people. I was disappointed.

Darragh Jennings

Dense, ambitious and ultimately rewarding but hard to get through

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 7, 2021

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It took a long time for me to find the hook in this book. Far longer than I think many people would hang around for. I was very tempted to give up on this book until it became clear what one of the central plots was. I felt a bit like Swan in not being let in on the secret for long enough for it to be very frustrating. Altogether this is an extremely competent and interesting exploration if a possible future, replete with fantastical technological and biological breakthroughs and for that, I love it. But it's not a great novel. The pacing suffers a lot from the heavy world building. Character development, while present, is very drawn out and the fact that there is a romantic subplot almost comes out of nowhere, but it's not really a welcome surprise. It doesn't feel forced, it does feel like it came naturally for the characters but I didn't cheer them on in tbe resolution of that subplot. I think this is largely due to how the characters are written. Swan and Wahram are in their 100s but Swan reads like a 19 year old who has travelled a lot but still hasn't grown up and uses her fists and her screams to express her feelings and progress her arguments whereas Wahram reads like a sedate 60 year old.

If you're a big fan of sci fi and you want to experience Kim Stanley Robinson's possible future and revel in the level of detail and complexity, definitely read this book. If you're looking for a great, compelling story, I don't think this book is for you.

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