The Years of Rice and Salt
A Novel
by Kim Stanley Robinson
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appears in Alternate History, Science Fiction, and Fantasy.
It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur_x0097_the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe's populations was destroyed. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead How would the world have changed This is a look at the history that could ...
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appears in Alternate History, Science Fiction, and Fantasy.
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