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  <title><![CDATA[Tiempos De Arroz Y Sal (Bestseller Internacional)]]></title>
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  <default_description>It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur&amp;#8212;the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe's populations was destroyed. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that could have been&amp;#8212;one that stretches across centuries, sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, and spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation.

Through the eyes of soldiers and kings, explorers and philosophers, slaes and scholars, Robinson navigates a world where Buddhism and Islam are the most influential and practiced religions, while Christianity is merely a historical footnote. Probing the most profound questions as only he can, Robinson shines his extraordinary light on the place of religion, culture, power&amp;#8212;and even love&amp;#8212; in this bold New World.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic of speculative fiction. This one has really stuck with me, and continues to inform my thinking on any number of topics, not least the clash of civilizations, the impermanence of human culture, the non-inevitability of European historical domination, how indigenous American societies might ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21856156">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[lesson to be learned: just because you like one book (or in this case, three) by a particular author doesn't necessarily have to imply that you will have to like all books. This, my darlings, is a blatant case in point.  <br/><br/>Thy premise: The black plague knocks out 99 percent of Western Euro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23077768">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dear Kim Stanley Robinson,<br/><br/>I think your Mars trilogy is one of the greatest pieces of science fiction every written.  I've read it twice in the past ten years and will probably read it three more times before I grow old.  I even read the first book in your eco-thriller trilogy and, though...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20234912">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In retrospect, it's surprising that there aren't MORE fantasy novels about a group of people being reincarnated multiple times, with lives sprawling through a centuries-long alternate history. But, if there were, most all of them would not be as good as this.<br/><br/>The reincarnation plot (compl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3681037">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book. I wanted to read the book on its premise alone: What if Europe had been wiped out by the plague, how would world history have been shaped without a European influence?<br/><br/>The book is a series of different short stories that catalogue the lives of people at differe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2178452">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is an intriguing book about a group of characters that keep getting reincarnated together, who end up fleshing out an alternative world history beginning from a &quot;what if&quot; that has most of christian europe dying out from a much more virile form of the black plague in the middle ages.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18887999">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like Kim Stanley Robinson.  His fiction focuses on relationships primarily, both among people to each other, and between people and the world they live in.  He's definitely among the most &quot;literary&quot; of the science fiction A-listers, but does not use his writing to create a sense o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33454690">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel wasn't what I thought it would be, but that's a compliment in my book. I thought it would be a sort of medieval version of The Stand, with hoary images of Black Death ravaged cities all over Europe. Instead Robinson uses the big &quot;What If&quot; gimmick (what if the Black Death was 99%...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27647017">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An alternate history, in which the what-if is, what if European culture had been totally eradicated by the Black Plague.  Using the conceit of a group of repeatedly reincarnated souls returning again and again as the thousand-odd year saga unfolds, Robinson hits yet again with a thoroughly brilliant...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27267540">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmm.  I liked the Mars trilogy and had high hopes for this one but couldn't get more than 3/4 of the way through.  Premise - excellent.  Execution - awkward.  &quot;What if the Black Death had wiped out 99% of Europe's population instead of only 30-40%?&quot;  Whole course of history altered, etc et...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5957197">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Continuing my thematic reading (books about America during the 15th century), this is a fiction book describing an alternate history in which 99% of Europe is killed by the plague.  Consequently, there is no Columbus, and most of the world is Buddhist or Muslim.<br/><br/> It's an interesting conce...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33704594">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In an alternative history, the Black Death destroys Europe and the world is divided between China and the nations of Islam, with India and the New World asserting themselves in lesser ways.  It is seen through the eyes of the same group of people, reincarnated time after time, striving to make the w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45709657">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most creative ideas as a plot device I have ever read.  This book tells an alternate history of the world from the dark ages to present day.  The story starts with the black plague decimating almost the entirety of the European population, with the result of an eastward expansion into the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42919166">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the few books I couldn't force myself to finish. I usually enjoy alternate histories and post-apocalpyse fiction, so I thought I would enjoy this, but....no. <br/><br/>First, there didn't seem to be any overarching storyline. Characters are introduced, some contrived/random events happen, s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71900088">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[1.) I've never read his Mars Trilogy, so I had no preconceptions.<br/>2.) This book is long.<br/>3.) If you aren't into Chinese or Persian cultures, there's a chance you'll never make it through this book.<br/><br/>The book is the story of a group of people bound together as they re-incarnate th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63524020">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an interesting tale on two levels. The basic milieu is an alternate reality--a world in which the Black Death killed off three times the number of Europeans than it did in our world, 99% of the total population. The role that European nations played in world history is now taken by other nat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72958181">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, not read exactly, just till the page 200-ish. I'm afraid this is a lost battle. No more Mr. Robinson for me. Maybe when I was twenty... but now it is too late. Now I like obvious things put straight, not all tangled up to sound more mystical and mysterious. I liked the idea of this book, but t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43010897">more...</a>]]></body>
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