Query: 2000's science fiction novels about race and ethnicity and the United States
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Chronic City
A Hole in Texas
Evidence from documents: Chronic City: 2000's: (2009) is a novel by American author Jonathan Lethem.
and the United States: the novel is "set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan
science fiction novels about race and ethnicity: Biller, a black hobo who unexpectedly turns Internet wizard; and Georgina Hawkmanaji, often referred to as the ostrich-woman, a Turk heiress to "twenty million or so of inherited Armenian plunder."


Strange things happen in the NYC depicted in the novel; a mysterious tiger randomly destroys buildings and underground stations; a grey fog envelops Manhattan's Downtown; people are fascinated by mysterious chaldrons, gorgeous vases that are only seen in pictures, because nobody seems to have ever seen the originals; people keep asking Chase about his fiancée, Janice Trumbull, stranded on the orbital space station
A Hole in Texas: 2000's science fiction novels about race and ethnicity and the United States: a novel by Herman Wouk. Published in 2004, the book describes the adventures of a high-energy physicist following the surprise announcement that a Chinese physicist (with whom he had a long-ago romance) had discovered the long-sought Higgs boson.


Parts of the plot are based on the aborted Superconducting Super Collider project.
race and ethnicity: The review in ''Nature'' had some criticism, saying that the "scientific explanations are pat and usually come in the form of long e-mails that bog down the plot", that the discussions of the Chinese people "verge on racism", and that the book's ending "falls flat".