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The Years of Rice and Salt

by Kim Stanley Robinson

763 pages · 2003

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Alternate history based on a world where the Black Death killed most of the population of Christian Europe, China, India, and the Middle East are dominant regions, and Islam and Buddhism the dominant religions.

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