![]() ![]() ![]() Orbit Books launched a mini-site to accompany the publication of the novel, with a chapter, Extracts(1), illustrated and animated. 2312 is a bold vision of humanity's future and a compelling portrait of those individuals who will shape its events. Once a designer of worlds, now Swan will be led into a plot to destroy them. For Swan Er Hong, it will change her life. The first event takes place on Mercury, in the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. But in 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront our past, present and future. Earth is no longer our only home new habitats have been created throughout the solar system, on moons, planets and in between. Scientific advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. This will be a novel for anyone curious to see what our future looks like – a grand science-fictional adventure in every sense." " 2312 will be set in our solar system three hundred years from now a solar system in which mankind has left Earth and found new habitats. ![]() Orbit publisher Tim Holman described the setting of this novel thus: It was announced in November 2009 as the first of a three-book deal with publisher Orbit (however, 2312 is a stand-alone novel and not the first volume of a trilogy). ![]() It was published in hardcover on in the USA and in the UK it will be published in paperback on Jin the UK. First edition US hard cover, artwork by Kirk BenshoffĢ312 is the title of a Kim Stanley Robinson novel first published in May 2012. ![]()
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