NOMINATED FOR THE HUGO NEBULA BSFA AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDS The year is 2312. Scientific
and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer
humanity's only home new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons
planets and in between. But in this year 2312 a sequence of events will force humanity to
confront its past its present and its future. 'Intellectually engaged and intensely humane'
Iain M. Banks 'Kim Stanley Robinson is one of science fiction's greats . . . fans of the Mars
books will delight in this novel new readers will be astonished by the depth breadth and
power of Robinson's invention' Sunday Times 'Capacious and marvellous future-history' Guardian
'Blends mystery and suspense with lyrical evocation of a complex future' Sunday Telegraph 'A
novel of ideas that also sets out to be tremendous fun' Independent
