The book is set in a New York City suffering from a 50-foot rise in seawater. Robinson has previously addressed sea level rise directly and indirectly in his works Aurora, 2312, and the Mars trilogy. Denver has replaced New York as the center of American finance and culture, and much of the United States has been deliberately abandoned by humans in order to make room for wildlife.
The affluent live in newly constructed skyscrapers in Uptown Manhattan and near The Cloisters, as both locations remain above water. Robinson chose to prominently feature the building as it was designed to resemble the St Mark's Campanile in Venice. Several of the book's characters live in the MetLife Tower on 23rd Street, which the tenant association has outfitted with flood-prevention mechanisms and boat storage. Most of Manhattan below 46th Street is flooded, and has earned the nickname "SuperVenice". Robinson has said that the novel does not take place in the same "future history" as his novel 2312. Most of New York City is permanently underwater, however, people still live in the upper floors of the buildings, much like in the Venice of today. The novel occurs mostly in a fictional future New York City, permanently inundated by two major rises in seawater levels caused by climate change. The novel received generally positive reviews. The novel is set in a New York City that has been flooded and altered by rising water. New York 2140 is a 2017 climate fiction novel by American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson.
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