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Sarah Zimmerman
About this listen
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 UKListeners also enjoyed...
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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- Jamie
- 21-06-23
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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- Abdimalik abdullahi
- 21-09-23
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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- Bob Conrod
- 08-12-22
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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- geo
- 15-06-24
It's a mess, ....
I did listen this audiobook for a few hours, but I gave up. Purchased it as it was in some weird ranking almost number one, not for me though. It's a mess and .....ohhh never mind, I want to forget about it anyway.
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- Stephen Upton
- 24-03-23
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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- Stephen J. Watt
- 26-10-23
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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