` Robinson is one of the world`s finest working novelists, in any genre. New York 2140 is a towering novel about a genuinely grave threat to civilisation` Guardian The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted & it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been. Though changed forever. Every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an isl&. Through the eyes of the varied inhabitants of one building Kim Stanley Robinson shows us how one of our great cities will change with the rising tides. & how we too will change. ` Robinson is one of our best, bravest, most moral & most hopeful storytellers` New Yorker ` If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson` New York Times