--- product_id: 40026673 title: "New York 2140 (Science in the Capital)" price: "¥8833" currency: JPY in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.jp/products/40026673-new-york-2140-science-in-the-capital store_origin: JP region: Japan --- # New York 2140 (Science in the Capital) **Price:** ¥8833 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** New York 2140 (Science in the Capital) - **How much does it cost?** ¥8833 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.jp](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/40026673-new-york-2140-science-in-the-capital) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson returns with a bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century. As the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city. There is the market trader, who finds opportunities where others find trouble. There is the detective, whose work will never disappear -- along with the lawyers, of course. There is the internet star, beloved by millions for her airship adventures, and the building's manager, quietly respected for his attention to detail. Then there are two boys who don't live there, but have no other home -- and who are more important to its future than anyone might imagine. Lastly there are the coders, temporary residents on the roof, whose disappearance triggers a sequence of events that threatens the existence of all -- and even the long-hidden foundations on which the city rests. Review: Perfect exciting homage to NYC, past, present and future - Such a beautiful homage to NYC from past to present to future! If tryouts love NYC, its people, its aura and its history, you will love this novel. I readcit on Audible. The seven readers were outstanding. My favorite was "The Citizen," whose snarky observations and historical factoids have now made me buy the hard copy of this novel, so i can highlight his pages. Also, the style in which it is written, reminds me of a contemporary John Dos Passos, the characters incorporate economics. government, science, influencers, science and climate change, and societal norms. The novel is largely optimistic. New Yorkers have always been resilient people, and this story imagines what that would look like after the oceans rise 50 feet to put Manhattan under water until about 50th street. It does what I always wished the film "Waterworld" could have done; examined society as it adapts to changes. The plot kept me anxious to continue reading about my new friends everyday. It is one of the few books that I finish, and immediately want to begin over again! Review: and entertaining - the best of the lot come in the sections featuring The ... - After I read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy what seems a half a lifetime ago, I didn't read a novel by him until 2312. I did try to read THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT, but after 80 or so pages I couldn't go one any further and put it down, never to pick it up again. I returned to Robinson's work with 2312 and AURORA, skipping SHAMAN, which was not my cup of tea. I eyed NEW YORK 2140 with a sideways glance. I wasn't sure that I wanted to read it, thinking that once again it might not be for me, but man did it sound interesting. The deal was sealed when Robinson appeared on The Coode Street podcast; his descriptions of the book and how he went about researching it and putting it together were enough to get me to pick it up and give it a try. NEW YORK 2140 is not a novel in the usual sense. There is no real plot, although there are several events that are strung through the book that actually do have a beginning, middle, and end. There are also characters that the reader follows from the beginning of the novel to the end of the novel, and their lives do intersect because those previously mentioned events do intersect and overlap. And there is conflict, but not the sort of conflict a reader is used to seeing in a novel that is structured in a typical fashion. Even the title is a bit misleading, as the novel starts in 2140 but ends a few years later after the events that are recounted within are complete. What NEW YORK 2140 does provide, as does 2312, is a snapshot, a snapshot of a few characters within one of the largest and most well-known cities in the world as they - and the city - go about their daily lives. You'd be right to ask "why should a care about New York in 2140?". Well, it's under 50 feet of water. To be fair, not all of it is under 50 feet of water, but most of it is. In fact, the book itself answers the question of why you should care about New York instead of any of the other coastal cities that are under water. Back to this in a bit. Or maybe not. It's really a difficult novel to describe. Structurally, the novel is broken into parts, and each part has subsections that follow individual characters - or, in two cases, a couple of characters. There is also an additional subsection for a character called "The Citizen". Robinson is famously known for liberally sprinkling infodumps throughout his books, and NEW YORK 2140 is no exception. While infodumps are spread everywhere throughout the book - and I'll have to say I didn't mind them in the least, as they were in my opinion well done, informative, and entertaining - the best of the lot come in the sections featuring The Citizen. It is in these sections that the reader learns about the two events - The First Pulse and The Second Pulse - that put NYC and the other coastal cities under water. What's more, we learned how the Pulses came about in wondrous detail that should, but won't, convince any climate change denier that we have really screwed up this planet and we'd better do something about it yesterday. The Citizen doesn't just tell us about how NYC got to be in the state it's in ecologically, he tells us about finance as well, how the Pulses affected the global economy, and how current (to the novel) solutions to the problem are no different than what was done in the past. It's very clear throughout the book that Robinson has done his research. As a side note, and in bits that most readers may not enjoy but I found amusing, The Citizen, a snarky resident of NYC, refers to the text of the book itself, letting his audience know that he knows what he's saying is being read, and is giving those same readers permission to skip these sections if they want to, while at the same time letting them know that they're going to be ignorant of many facts if they skim through his parts. The thing that is fresh about this novel is that while it is a post-disaster novel, it doesn't dwell on the disaster (or in this case disasters). The point is not the disasters - the point is how a subsection of society deals with the nasty hand it's been dealt. Robinson also lets us know that it really is all about money. Yes, there is climate change which will lead to disaster. But money, really, makes the world go around. Nearly all of the characters have either something to do with finance or are affected by those that have something to do with finance. A major plot (there's that word here) point involves how to manipulate the global economy in the aftermath of a hurricane that hits New York. The characters here are secondary. I don't think Robinson means for the reader to be enamored of these characters at all. I don't think there's any character that grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and made me pay attention to him or her - although I did feel sorry for the two kids that continually did stupid things and got into trouble for them. This, like 2312, is a story about ideas, but ideas based in reality, ideas that we could find becoming a reality if we're not careful. Back to one point I made earlier, about why we should care about New York and not any other coastal city. Don't skip The Citizen sections. And don't skip any of the rest of the sections either. They're too good to pass up. This is the first audiobook I've listened to that has more than a couple of narrators. There are seven of them, and they are all wonderful. While I haven't taken the time to learn which narrators performed which sections (although it's a safe bet that the female narrators did the sections centering on the females, and the same with the males of course), I'm really partial to the guy that performed The Citizen. This was a great cast performing a great book. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,607,751 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #450 in Hard Science Fiction (Books) #2,259 in Science Fiction Adventures #2,262 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 3,367 Reviews | ## Images ![New York 2140 (Science in the Capital) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91u25Kx-+HL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect exciting homage to NYC, past, present and future *by P***O on September 23, 2025* Such a beautiful homage to NYC from past to present to future! If tryouts love NYC, its people, its aura and its history, you will love this novel. I readcit on Audible. The seven readers were outstanding. My favorite was "The Citizen," whose snarky observations and historical factoids have now made me buy the hard copy of this novel, so i can highlight his pages. Also, the style in which it is written, reminds me of a contemporary John Dos Passos, the characters incorporate economics. government, science, influencers, science and climate change, and societal norms. The novel is largely optimistic. New Yorkers have always been resilient people, and this story imagines what that would look like after the oceans rise 50 feet to put Manhattan under water until about 50th street. It does what I always wished the film "Waterworld" could have done; examined society as it adapts to changes. The plot kept me anxious to continue reading about my new friends everyday. It is one of the few books that I finish, and immediately want to begin over again! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ and entertaining - the best of the lot come in the sections featuring The ... *by J***Z on February 25, 2018* After I read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy what seems a half a lifetime ago, I didn't read a novel by him until 2312. I did try to read THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT, but after 80 or so pages I couldn't go one any further and put it down, never to pick it up again. I returned to Robinson's work with 2312 and AURORA, skipping SHAMAN, which was not my cup of tea. I eyed NEW YORK 2140 with a sideways glance. I wasn't sure that I wanted to read it, thinking that once again it might not be for me, but man did it sound interesting. The deal was sealed when Robinson appeared on The Coode Street podcast; his descriptions of the book and how he went about researching it and putting it together were enough to get me to pick it up and give it a try. NEW YORK 2140 is not a novel in the usual sense. There is no real plot, although there are several events that are strung through the book that actually do have a beginning, middle, and end. There are also characters that the reader follows from the beginning of the novel to the end of the novel, and their lives do intersect because those previously mentioned events do intersect and overlap. And there is conflict, but not the sort of conflict a reader is used to seeing in a novel that is structured in a typical fashion. Even the title is a bit misleading, as the novel starts in 2140 but ends a few years later after the events that are recounted within are complete. What NEW YORK 2140 does provide, as does 2312, is a snapshot, a snapshot of a few characters within one of the largest and most well-known cities in the world as they - and the city - go about their daily lives. You'd be right to ask "why should a care about New York in 2140?". Well, it's under 50 feet of water. To be fair, not all of it is under 50 feet of water, but most of it is. In fact, the book itself answers the question of why you should care about New York instead of any of the other coastal cities that are under water. Back to this in a bit. Or maybe not. It's really a difficult novel to describe. Structurally, the novel is broken into parts, and each part has subsections that follow individual characters - or, in two cases, a couple of characters. There is also an additional subsection for a character called "The Citizen". Robinson is famously known for liberally sprinkling infodumps throughout his books, and NEW YORK 2140 is no exception. While infodumps are spread everywhere throughout the book - and I'll have to say I didn't mind them in the least, as they were in my opinion well done, informative, and entertaining - the best of the lot come in the sections featuring The Citizen. It is in these sections that the reader learns about the two events - The First Pulse and The Second Pulse - that put NYC and the other coastal cities under water. What's more, we learned how the Pulses came about in wondrous detail that should, but won't, convince any climate change denier that we have really screwed up this planet and we'd better do something about it yesterday. The Citizen doesn't just tell us about how NYC got to be in the state it's in ecologically, he tells us about finance as well, how the Pulses affected the global economy, and how current (to the novel) solutions to the problem are no different than what was done in the past. It's very clear throughout the book that Robinson has done his research. As a side note, and in bits that most readers may not enjoy but I found amusing, The Citizen, a snarky resident of NYC, refers to the text of the book itself, letting his audience know that he knows what he's saying is being read, and is giving those same readers permission to skip these sections if they want to, while at the same time letting them know that they're going to be ignorant of many facts if they skim through his parts. The thing that is fresh about this novel is that while it is a post-disaster novel, it doesn't dwell on the disaster (or in this case disasters). The point is not the disasters - the point is how a subsection of society deals with the nasty hand it's been dealt. Robinson also lets us know that it really is all about money. Yes, there is climate change which will lead to disaster. But money, really, makes the world go around. Nearly all of the characters have either something to do with finance or are affected by those that have something to do with finance. A major plot (there's that word here) point involves how to manipulate the global economy in the aftermath of a hurricane that hits New York. The characters here are secondary. I don't think Robinson means for the reader to be enamored of these characters at all. I don't think there's any character that grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and made me pay attention to him or her - although I did feel sorry for the two kids that continually did stupid things and got into trouble for them. This, like 2312, is a story about ideas, but ideas based in reality, ideas that we could find becoming a reality if we're not careful. Back to one point I made earlier, about why we should care about New York and not any other coastal city. Don't skip The Citizen sections. And don't skip any of the rest of the sections either. They're too good to pass up. This is the first audiobook I've listened to that has more than a couple of narrators. There are seven of them, and they are all wonderful. While I haven't taken the time to learn which narrators performed which sections (although it's a safe bet that the female narrators did the sections centering on the females, and the same with the males of course), I'm really partial to the guy that performed The Citizen. This was a great cast performing a great book. ### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.5 stars really. Takes a while to get going. *by J***Y on February 8, 2024* I loved Robinson's book Ministry of the Future, so I was looking forward to this one. This one's not nearly as entertaining nor the story is gripping. Had to force my way to the first half of the book because it is a lot of character introduction and set up. About halfway through the book. It gets really good and the story takes off. It just seemed like a bunch of little stories, some of them almost impossible stories, that intersected and somehow bounced along together. I don't think I can recommend it. ## Frequently Bought Together - New York 2140 - 2312 - Aurora --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.jp/products/40026673-new-york-2140-science-in-the-capital](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/40026673-new-york-2140-science-in-the-capital) --- *Product available on Desertcart Japan* *Store origin: JP* *Last updated: 2026-05-17*