June 24, 2021, 12:30 PM
PASigInteresting Book I Stumbled On: The Years of Rice and Salt
I’m going to get this for my Kindle as summer reading, I always find these “what if” alternate history stories fascinating:
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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 percent of Europe's population, instead of a third as it did in reality. Divided into ten parts, the story spans hundreds of years, from the army of the Muslim conqueror Timur to the 21st century, with Europe being re-populated by Muslim pioneers, the indigenous peoples of the Americas forming a league to resist Chinese and Muslim invaders, and a 67-year-long world war being fought primarily between Muslim states and the Chinese and their allies. While the ten parts take place in different times and places, they are connected by a group of characters that are reincarnated into each time but are identified to the reader by the first letter of their name being consistent in each life.
Wikipedia LinkJune 25, 2021, 02:52 PM
LoswsmithI have heard of this, but never read it. I have been thinking about trying it, and now am going too. If you like that kind of thing (alt. history/sci fi) you might try Harry Turtledove's
Guns of the South, which I really liked or, if you like Asia/Indian, S.M. Stirling's
The Peshwar Lancers. Both are individual books (not series') BUT both have different alternative history series' IF you liked these titles.