![]() ![]() In fact, New York becomes something of a frontier city again, in its own way a boom town. ![]() The world has recovered from two massive economic depressions following the two “Pulses” - two decades-long periods of rapid sea level rise following major ice-sheet collapses in Antarctica - and is now mostly soldiering on again as normal. “THE FLOODS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY revealed a salient fact that wasn’t very important before: lower Manhattan is indeed much lower than upper Manhattan, like by about fifty vertical feet on average.” In Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140, out this month, this now extremely important fact has combined with rising sea levels to transform the city into what its inhabitants have come to call a SuperVenice: a hacked-together improvisation they navigate via water taxis, skybridges, airships, and private boats they store in the ruined lower floors of skyscrapers. ![]()
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