29 Jul
2003
29 Jul
'03
5:59 p.m.
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt. An alternate history in which the mortality rate from the Black Death in Europe was 99%, so Christianity was pretty much obliterated. Several hundred years of "what if" based on Islam and Buddhism being the dominant religions of the world. Good stuff so far. And a welcome relief after 2000+ pages about Mars and Mars-like continents. William Crump