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The Years of Rice and Salt

Kim Stanley Robinson

Blurb from a JoCoNaut:

"An alternate take based on the question "What if the Bubonic Plague killed 99% of Europe?" Major world powers evolve in China, India, the Middle East, and the various peoples of the Americas, and the book takes 10 steps through time until it catches up to the Present Day."

Content Warnings include Sexism, Racism, War, Slavery, Addiction, Body Horror, Death, Genocide, Sexual Assault, Islamophobia, Murder, Violence, Grief, Fire, Colonialism, Suicide, Drugs