In Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel “New York 2140” the flooded New York has all the big city charm and dazzle and fascination it ever had: “From here, the flooded Lower Manhatten lies at their feet like a Super-Venice, awe-inspiring, water-glistening, grand. Their city.”
It’ all there: the skyscrapers, the business people, the bars, but everything is seaside. And sea level rise is the big bet at the stock market.
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[…] Whether or not director Tim Fehlbaum knew and references here Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel “New York 2140” from 4 years before, it is striking that both stories are set in a – or the same – […]