![]() In the last of the novel's ten sections, Zhu, an aged philosopher teaching a seminar, muses on different approaches to the writing of history. ![]() It begins in the Middle Ages and guides the reader through 700 or so years of an imagined history, until it reaches a time more or less equivalent to now. At other times it tests the reader's patience, as the author's ceaseless desire to impart knowledge and information can become burdensome. At times it seems much too short, stuffed as it is with ideas about everything: politics, ecology, science, religion, history. It is a dense, informed, impassioned and huge novel by an author who is a comprehensive and insatiable thinker. ![]() ![]() Kim Stanley Robinson 's The Years of Rice and Salt is a storehouse of thought. Review | The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson ![]()
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