Now she will be led into a plot to destroy them. Swan was once a woman who designed worlds. For Swan Er Hong, it is an event that will change her life. It is an unexpected death, but one that might have been foreseen. The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future. Earth is no longer humanity’s only home new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Of course, you can just accept things as they are presented and not worry too much about that.From the acclaimed author of New York 2140 and Red Mars, this NYT bestselling novel tells the story of a future where humanity has populated miraculous new habitats engineered across the solar system - and the one death that triggers a precarious chain of events that could destroy it all. Somebody who reads 2312 first will probably have a much harder time getting into the universe, understanding it and building a mental image of how humanity got to that point. Even if some things are different you can easily spot those differences and put them in a whole bunch of context.
My point being that you will recognise a lot of stuff, and a lot of the state of affairs and developments in 2312 immediately makes sense if you have read the Mars trilogy before. And doing it this way means each time I have a chance to invent a whole new history, and even if they are somewhat similar, there's still a lot of pleasure to be had there in the details.īUT: After having read the first 200 pages of 2312 I dare say that while some details, ideas and developments differ from the Mars trilogy timeline a lot of stuff fits very well. I think it's best to keep on updating one's views on what is "most likely to happen," and write accordingly. Even within my Mars stories there are a couple alternative historical lines to the main one described in the trilogy. I don't see that the advantages of some larger macro-history are very large, compared to the flexibility that I've gained by making each novel have its own future history. I've never done it, and so of course now it's too late, and I don't regret it. KS: That's right, I don't like linking up my various projects into one larger future history. 2312 appears in some ways closely related to both your Mars trilogy and Science in the Capital trilogy, but I am assuming that it is not exactly part of the same future history.
Kim Stanley Robinson has clarified this in an interview. They are not in the same timeline/universe.
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