The Years of Rice and Salt

Very simply, the book is an Alternate History which asks the question "What if instead of killing a third of Europe, the Black Death wiped out 99% of them?" It would result in a very different past than what we experienced, and this book is a series of short stories set in this imagined past. The short stories follow some souls who are continually reincarnated, tying them in to one big story. ...more

Very simply, the book is an Alternate History which asks the question "What if instead of killing a third of Europe, the Black Death wiped out 99% of them?" It would result in a very different past than what we experienced, and this book is a series of short stories set in this imagined past. The short stories follow some souls who are continually reincarnated, tying them in to one big story. Very interesting.    hide