Talk:The Years of Rice and Salt

message: :Not only because of the long time scale, but also because of its realistic-utopian elements, and because of the frequent reflections about human nature, The Years of Rice and Salt resembles Robinson's Mars trilogy, a utopia brought to Earth.
I don't understand this: is it trying to say the Mars trilogy is "a utopia brought to Earth"? --Sam
No. I tried to say that there are similarities between Robinsons utopian Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt in the points of:
*long time scale
*realistisc-utopian elements (i.e. ambivalence of utopia)
*reflections about human nature
So, YRC is the Mars utopia brought to earth. -- till we *) 22:07, Dec 7, 2003 (UTC)
I'm confused, where is this edit? Jakesyl (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 17:56, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
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message: In this article it says the book ends in 2002 AD (1423 AH), but on one of the links provided it ends at 2030's AD or somewhere around there. Im not sure if there is some mix-up considering the book uses non-western calendars or if its just a general miss on wikipedia's part. Anyone bold enough to clarify?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.10.184.10 (talk) 13:43, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A question about the time scale 

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message: "In the last chapters the book becomes increasingly reflexive, citing fictional scientists and philosophers introduced in previous chapters as well as referring to Old Red Ink, who wrote a biography about a reincarnating jati group."
Shouldn't that be 'reflective'? If it's referring back to itself, that would be reflecting on itself, wheras 'reflexive' would be, well, 'a reflex'.
:Nope. Check your dictionary. "Reflexive" means operating upon oneself. It's a term borrowed from grammar, to describe works which self-reference. --Orange Mike 13:39, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
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