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The Years of Rice and Salt

The Years of Rice and Salt

The Years of Rice and Salt is an alternate history novel by American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, published in 2002. The novel explores how world history might have been different if the Black Death plague had killed 99% of Europe's population, instead of a third


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“A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.”

Book 1: "Awake to Emptiness", Ch. 1
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

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“Rock is much more malleable than ideas.”

Book 6: "Widow Kang", Ch. 3
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

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“It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.”

Book 2: "The Haj in the Heart", Ch. 5
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

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