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2312

By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
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Summary

Winner of the 2013 Nebula Award for best novel.

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

The first event takes place on Mercury, in the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. For Swan Er Hong, it will change her life. Once a designer of worlds, now Swan will be led into a plot to destroy them.

2312 is a bold vision of humanity's future and a compelling portrait of those individuals who will shape its events.

©2012 Kim Stanley Robinson (P)2012 Hachette Audio UK

Critic reviews

"Kim Stanley Robinson is one of science fiction's greats...fans of the Mars books will delight in this novel; new readers will be astonished by the depth, breadth and power of Robinson's invention." (Sunday Times)
 

"Polymathic, visionary brilliance." (Financial Times)

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Great world building and very interesting…

…but not the best of the author’s work. I love the way it forms part of his interconnected world of possible future events, and there are so many good ideas.
But the world building and ideas were a lot stronger than the plot, which at times felt like a vehicle to explore the world, rather than being something thrusting things forward organically.
Narrator was Ok but a bit wooden (ie good for the AI characters, but less good for the humans!!;-))

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Save yourself.

I am a massive sci fi consumer but this is painful! It’s so disjointed with so much introspection it’s easy to get utterly lost. Great ideas just ruined with a scatter gun narrative. I ended up so lost I gave up and can not find the mental energy to try and finish it.

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Difficult to listen to.

I was totally absorbed by the Mars Trilogy from the writing style to the science content and attention that KSR pays to building a fiction story on top of science fact.

Unfortunately this book hasn't quite lived up to that standard. I wonder if it is the narrator who manages in places to sound like a computer generated voice. The narrator's intonation also makes following some of the dialogue very difficult and their slightly flat tone borders on boring in places - perhaps I've been spoilt by Richard Ferrone's narration and I am being harsh.

Finally I think there is some kind of technical issue with this recording and there are about 10 or so places where the last word of a sentence is missing. I thought at first it was my imagination or an issue with my playback device but I have checked and also played back some places to other people who have confirmed it.

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Amazing view of a post-capitalist future!

Apart from the author’s odd obsessive hatred of China throughout all of their books, including this 1, this has been an incredible read!

Certainly for giving us a glimpse of a potential post-capitalist world. No utopia but a realistic communist civilisation expanding out into the stars!

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Good story

Enjoyed this story however as a non-Chinese living in China long term I did find myself cringing a bit at the narrator’s mispronunciations. It didn’t detract much from the overall enjoyment though. Well read.

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