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	SF REVIEWS.NET: The Years of Rice and Salt / Kim Stanley Robinson
		SF REVIEWS.NET: The Years of Rice and Salt / Kim Stanley Robinson
		The Years of Rice and Salt is a sprawling, sumptuous fantasy novel about civilization, set against an alternate-historical backdrop of a world in which the Black Death of the 14th century wiped out almost the entire European population (in reality it took about half of it).
		When the cleric is exiled from his homeland years later, he undertakes the pilgrimage to Mecca, where he meets a young princess in whom he seems to recognize the spirit of the tiger who once protected him.
	www.sfreviews.net /yearsofrice.html (970 words)

	The Years of Rice and Salt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Years of Rice and Salt (2002, ISBN 0553580078) is an alternate history novel written by science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, a thought experiment about a world without Christianity.
		In the eighth Islamic century, almost 99 per cent of the population of medieval Europe is wiped out by the plague.
		Key issues of the novel are hybrid cultures; progress and science; alternate history; philosophy, religion and human nature; politics; feminism and equality of all humans; and the struggle between technology and sustainability.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt (783 words)

	Kim Stanley Robinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly, and many of his novels appear to be the direct result of his own scientific fascinations, such as the 15 years of research and lifelong fascination with Mars which culminated in his most famous work.
		By the conclusion of the story Mars is heavily populated and terraformed, with a flourishing and complex political and social dimension.
		The Years of Rice and Salt is an epic work of alternate history dealing with a world in which the Black Plague wiped out Europe entirely, leaving the world free for Asian expansion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson (2123 words)

	Kim Stanley Robinson: The Years of Rice and Salt
		The Years of Rice and Salt is divided into ten books, each separated by varying periods of time and running from the death of Temur in AH (After Hegira) 783 through 640 years of history to the present day.
		Because Europe is missing, the history of The Years of Rice and Salt is a struggle between the forces of Islam and China, with India caught in the middle.
		The Years of Rice and Salt is filled with ideas about human civilization and vitality which will cause the reader to take time to think about what Robinson has written and evaluate, perhaps re-evaluate, their own thoughts on a variety of subjects.
	www.sfsite.com /%7Esilverag/years.html (631 words)

	Blogcritics.org: 'Rice and Salt': Robinson's antidote to blind supremacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		George Mitchell, who for six years took the vote of bipartisan peers as "most respected member" of the US Senate and founded an academic institute on retirement in 1995, said "Vietnam" this morning, when he meant Iraq.
		There are so many layers to 'The Years of Rice and Salt' that it's undoubtedly become one of the handful of books I shall return to, finding new connections and more discoveries in an evolving reader's interchange with an involving and immensely compassionate writer.
		I found patience with 'The Years of Rice and Salt' well rewarded by the fresh thought it stimulates on who constitutes the real terrorists and where the true horror stories are in these troubled times.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2003/11/20/110830.php (1146 words)

	The Years of Rice and Salt
		In “The Years of Rice and Salt,” the principal companions are the Revolutionary, the Pious Man, and the Scientist; the Idiot Sultan puts in several appearances, too.
		The speculation in "The Years of Rice and Salt” presents the same sort of issue that Stephen Jay Gould addressed in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” In the latter work, Gould considered what would happen if biological history were begun again.
		That history would have taken another 500 to 1000 years to reach the state of things that we see from the college in the land that is not Calfornia.
	www.johnreilly.info /tyoras.htm (2633 words)

	Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt
		The Years of Rice and Salt is an alternative history of the world, diverging from our own historical time-line at that point in the 14th century when the Great Plague, or Black Death, swept Europe.
		The author is an accomplished science fiction writer and therefore resorts without apology, particularly near the end, to that mainstay of SF story-telling the "info-dump" (passages of expository prose), for instance in the form of extracts from contemporary historical writings.
		The Years of Rice and Salt is a story of individual struggle told on a broad historical canvas.
	www.rambles.net /robinson_years02.html (622 words)

	The Years of Rice and Salt
		Years of Rice and Salt first got my attention due to its interesting core plot, i.e.
		Subject-wise, _The Years of Rice and Salt_ pushed all the right buttons for me - opening with a Journey to the West pastiche was always going to score it points, then there was a section set in Samarkand, quotations from Ibn Khaldun, and some deftly-drawn portraits of medieval China.
		This is a massive and ambitious work, perhaps too ambitious as it attempts to show how the world would have developed if the Black Death of 14th century Europe had been even more virulent, and instead of wiping out a third of the population it wipes out just about everyone in Europe.
	www.thebigreadinglist.com /0002246791.html (1398 words)

	Excessive Candour
		Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt, a novel which spans 700 years of human life on this planet after the peoples of Europe are wiped out holus bolus by the Great Plague of circa 1350 A.D., has brought alternate history into the 21st century.
		Avoiding malice, and generally eschewing cheats or elisions in its limning of the passage of 700 years, the book manifestly urges its readers to understand that the continuity of the human species on this planet is in itself numinous.
		The novel ends calmly, humbly, in salt and rice; there is a joke at the very end who the final K will be.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue253/excess.html (1774 words)

	Creating a world without a Europe
		Keep an eye out for characters whose names begin with the letters B or K. "The Years of Rice and Salt" is a timely book, especially in its discussion of the various strains of Islam.
		He isn't interested in spoon-feeding exposition to his readers, so "The Years of Rice and Salt" is not a particularly easy read.
		Like "Antarctica," "The Years of Rice and Salt" has the kind of historical breadth and thematic depth that can attract a wider readership than normal for a work of science fiction.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/03/31/RV196912.DTL&type=printable (667 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "The Years of Rice and Salt" by Kim Stanley Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Years pass, humanity begins to recover, and then the world has its own version of the '60s, a countercultural efflorescence in the coastal city of Nsara (in what we'd call France).
		Nevertheless, "The Years of Rice and Salt" is for the most part a magnificent and endlessly fascinating book.
		That, perhaps, is the most enduring impression that "The Years of Rice and Salt" (for all the progressive uplift of its conclusion) leaves.
	archive.salon.com /books/feature/2002/03/06/europe/index1.html (712 words)

	Review of "The Years of Rice and Salt" by Kim Stanley Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I have to admit that I was disappointed by "The Years of Rice and Salt." Ironically, much of my disappointment was due to the book's failure to follow through on its excellent premise and beginning chapters.
		"The Years of Rice and Salt" is technically an alternate history in which disease wipes out all of Europe and most of Christendom in the late middle ages.
		And so ultimately I was disappointed by "The Years of Rice and Salt," which got off to a wonderful start but then seemed to fall apart.
	www.amherst.edu /~daschaich/writings/amazon/yearsricesalt.html (439 words)

	Years of Rice and Salt: Timeline
		One is the Chinese imperial calendar which numbers years by giving the name of the emperor and the year of his reign.
		Later this year, a child is born to Kang and Ibrahim.
		Return to the main study guide and commentary for The Years of Rice and Salt; the guestbook is there.
	www.geocities.com /heiankyo794/timeline.html (1297 words)

	Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt, reviewed by Fred Bush
		Spanning nearly seven hundred years, this alternate history is a prolonged meditation on social change, the impact of science on society, and religion's place in modern life.
		Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt begins with the extermination of Europe in the Middle Ages.
		The years of rice and salt are the burdensome times of a Chinese woman's life, after she has been married and had her children, when she spends her time supporting her family through backbreaking labor.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2002/20020520/rice_and_salt.shtml (1532 words)

	Kim Stanley Robinson: The Years of Rice and Salt - an infinity plus review
		The Years of Rice and Salt, it is rightly suggested by Robinson's interviewer Nick Gevers in the
		The Years of Rice and Salt is at its best in the superbly detailed accounts of these characters' lives, and in the steadily growing sense of who they are and how they can overcome the constraints of mortality and human blindness.
		The Years of Rice and Salt is also reviewed in Adam Roberts' feature on the 2003 Arthur C Clarke Award shortlist and by Peter Tillman.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/riceandsalt.htm (1007 words)

	Years of Rice and Salt: Trivia and Study Guide
		Born in 1378, he was not a young man at all when he took the throne, so either KSR has changed Chinese history significantly in having the Yongle die sooner, or he's taking artistic license in describing the Yongle's struggles to get his son to appreciate his position.
		He would still be around seventy years old when he makes the treaty with the Wanli to open his ports to the Chinese.
		Incidentally, the year is given in the North American version (corrected in the British paperback) as AH 1381, but though 1381 solar years have passed since Mohammed's Hegira, that calendar uses lunar years, and the spring of AD 2002 should be AH 1423 (as given in the Chronology in the beginning of the book).
	www.geocities.com /heiankyo794/tyoras-guide.html (7179 words)

	Book: The Years of Rice and Salt
		The Years of Rice and Salt considers this question through the stories of individuals who experience and influence various crucial periods in the seven centuries that follow.
		This is a look at the history that could have been–a history that stretches across centuries, a history that sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, a history that spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation.
		These are the years of rice and salt.
	www.mashelle.com /details/10001.html (433 words)

	New worlds: Two giant new 'alternative histories' vividly explore Islam ascendant
		The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson, 658 pp.
		Of the two, Robinson's "The Years of Rice and Salt" is perhaps the more prodigious, literary and challenging.
		But in "The Years of Rice and Salt," his seamlessly weaves all the necessary detail with vivid action.
	web.dailycamera.com /livingarts/books/24xrice.html (1142 words)

	English School
		Years of Rice and Salt include genocide and exploitation and universal war,
		But 700 years is a long span to make cohere as a novel.
		rice and salt come moments of happiness and celebration.
	www.ingilizcesitesi.com /years.html (599 words)

	Kim Stanley RobinsonThe Years of Rice and Salt Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Kim Stanley Robinson's 'The Years of Rice and Salt' is that work, that artifact of another timeline.
		Described from the outside, from the vantage point of our history, 'The Years of Rice and Salt' reads most like a fantasy, because the world described by Robinson is quite properly nothing like ours.
		Each novella tells the story of at least two and sometimes three characters who are given names beginning with B, K, and I. The novellas follow one another through the centuries, starting with the breakpoint as Bold, a barbarian on the steppes of Asia, finds the villages decimated by the plague.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2004/robinson-years_rice_salt.htm (1253 words)

	Profile \| Kim Stanley Robinson
		In the 700 years that follow, a world dominated by China and Islam steadily evolves into a precarious, ambiguous utopia shaped by the values of Sufism and Buddhism.
		Throughout The Years of Rice and Salt, Robinson's reincarnated characters struggle to reconcile their faiths with science and human freedom, a dialectic that Robinson clearly believes is essential to achieve the utopian synthesis.
		There's entertainment and even comfort in The Years of Rice and Salt, but like the rest of Robinson's work, this is not a story that flatters its readers or offers them an easy escape from reality.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/ksrobinson.html (1731 words)

	Lean Left: Book Review: The Years of Rice and Salt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Years of Rice and Salt is a perfect example of that ability.
		"Almost" because it is much, much greater in scope, covering literally two thousand years and the entire planet, than most other alternative history novels; "almost" because it posits the most dramatic of change that I have ever seen in an alternative history: a world without the West.
		The Years of Rice and Salt is very close to a masterpiece.
	www.leanleft.com /archives/003646.html (1082 words)

	Blog, Jvstin Style: The Years of Rice and
		The Years of Rice and Salt and will give something of a book review here and now.
		His narrative covers about 750 years, from the Golden Horde's discovery of the depopulated Europe, to a late 21st century (although the Christian calendar is not used) endcap.
		Its a book which is much easier to admire than to read and re-read, I think, but its definitely in the top tier of the books published last year, and probably one of the most ambitious alternate history novels I have read, or perhaps even SF novels in general.
	www.skyseastone.net /jvstin/unjvst/002290.html (960 words)

	Review - The Years of Rice and Salt - Kim Stanley Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Years presents certain problems when viewed in the scope of the genre.
		In the subgenre of alternate history, Years will be well-esteemed by the discriminating audience within that set.
		Comparing Isaac Asimov’s history building in the Foundation trilogy to Years is to compare Coors Light to a single-malt scotch: a thing many people like to a thing far fewer can properly enjoy.
	www.inchoatus.com /Reviews/The%20Years%20of%20Rice%20and%20Salt.htm (1300 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "The Years of Rice and Salt" by Kim Stanley Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A novelist imagines 700 years of history in which the plague has wiped out the West and China and Islam rule the globe.
		For the most part, what a novelist tries to do with any given book is far less important that what he or she actually manages to accomplish, but it's impossible to read "The Years of Rice and Salt" without stopping now and then to contemplate the vastness of the task Robinson has set himself.
		But perhaps what's most remarkable about "The Years of Rice and Salt" is the way it hews so closely to the lineaments of the human heart even as it fans out across such a mammoth stage.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/2002/03/06/europe/print.html (1441 words)

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