Shaman

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Review “Robinson’s expert world building and lyrical prose offer Jack London-esque pleasures as they depict the stark beauties of the icy landscape – it’sdesolation, dangers and the desperate choices it forces people to make whenpushed to the edge of existence. Richly detailed.”•Kirkus”This novel bears themarkings of Robinson’s consummate skill with a sort of anthropologicalfiction…Spectacular world building.”•Booklist”A seriously composed andcompelling novel about prehistoric life…some of the most intelligententertainment you can find.”•NPR Books”A thrilling journey through an age ofice and stone – one of Kim Stanley Robinson’s best!”•Greg Bear”This bookproves once again that Robinson’s fascination with the human condition andmankind’s journey transcends easy genre labels…Despite all his previousaccolades, this may be Robinson’s best work to date, focused so sharply as itis on the simplest way of being human.”•Library Journal”The novel is anamazing piece of recreation, vividly evoking the deprivations, animalisticbeliefs and day-to-day struggles of a primitive tribe.”•Financial Times(UK)”Intellectually engaged and intensely humane in a way SF rarely is,exuberantly speculative in a way only the best SF can be, this is the work ofa writer at or approaching the top of his game.”•Iain M. Banks on2312″Robinson’s extraordinary completeness of vision results in amagnificently realized, meticulously detailed future in which social andbiological changes keep pace with technological developments.”•PublishersWeekly on 2312″2312 is a monumental tour-de-force that re-imagines the solarsystem in ways no one has envisioned before. Whether comparing thecompositions of Beethoven to those of skylarks and warblers, or describing alife-threatening sunrise on Mercury, Robinson fills 2312 with joy andexuberance, danger and fear, and the steadily mounting suspense of a mysterythat spans the planets. This is the finest novel yet from the author who gaveus the Mars Trilogy and GALILEO’S DREAM. An amazing accomplishment.”•RobertCrais” In his vibrant, often moving new novel, “2312,” Robinson’sextrapolation is hard-wired to a truly affecting personal love story. […]Perhaps Robinson’s finest novel, “2312” is a treasured gift to fans ofpassionate storytelling; readers will be with Swan and Wahram in the tunnellong after reaching the last page.”•LA Times Read more About the Author KimStanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo,Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books,including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed FortySigns of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt and 2312. In 2008, he was named a”Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine, and he works with the SierraNevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California. Read more

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Product Details:

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Orbit; Reprint edition (June 10, 2014)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316098086
• ISBN-13: 83
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.2 x 8.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• #374 in Alternate History Science Fiction