![]() This offers parallels to Robinson’s previous novel, Aurora, which also featured an ecosystem in distress (in that case, a generational spaceship). ![]() And a media star famous for her “assisted migrations” tries to transport polar bears in her dirigible from the warming Arctic to cooler Antarctica. ![]() A pair of “water rats” (homeless boys with a boat) search for sunken gold in the Bronx. An ambitious trader tries altruism and civic improvement to impress a woman. A tough cop investigates the coders’ disappearance and links it to a wide-ranging conspiracy. Two coders living in an inflatable structure on the building’s farm floor are held prisoner in an underwater container after one of them hacks the financial system. The head of the co-op board and the building’s super fend off an offer to purchase the building from a shadowy corporation so determined to buy that they’re willing to sabotage the building’s infrastructure. The Big Apple persists, despite climactic disasters that have flooded the lower floors of New York City's buildings and turned the metropolis into a so-called “SuperVenice.”Īrmistead Maupin’s Tales of the City meets George Turner’s Drowning Towers in this series of interconnected narratives concerning the residents of the Met Life tower, a historic skyscraper converted into a co-op. ![]()
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