See that slender tower in the middle? That's the Met Life tower, which is one of the central actors – yes, that's clearly how KSR conceived it, following Latour – in Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140. I'm standing at the northern end of Hoboken, NJ, across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan.
I've written about New York 2140 before and I'll likely write about it again. Here's my current piece in 3 Quarks Daily, Through a 3D Glass Starkly, New York 2140 Redux.
