Robinson has built a New York City that people would still want to live in.Įxploring the world of Borne is like navigating a video game. This book is fascinating for New Yorkers, but anyone with an interest in climate change and Robinson's work will like it. In some ways, the novel is hopeful because it shows that humanity will figure out a way to adapt with the terrifying threat of climate change.

Seeing how characters survive in this future is satisfying. We know that the planet is warming and that sea levels will dramatically change big cities in the future.

It's a dystopian novel that doesn't really feel like a dystopian novel because the plot is intimately tied to our current reality. In New York 2140, sea levels have risen 50 feet and lower Manhattan is covered in water, and the MetLife building serves as a hub for the novel's main characters. Although we have a little bit of time before rising sea levels will affect housing and businesses, it's hard to not picture what the future of the most populous U.S. The fear of living in a place that will one day be covered in water is very real for New Yorkers and many other coastal dwellers around the world.

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