The Years of Rice and Salt
- Published: 2002
- Hugo Award for Best Novel, 2003 —
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, 2003 —
In an alternate history world in which the population of Europe is almost completely wiped out by the Black Death during the fourteenth century, three superpowers--China, India, and the nations of Islam--battle for supremacy in a World War destined to create a new world order. By the author of Red Mars. Reprint.