The Lucky Strike: A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions / a Real Joy to Be Had: 2 (Outspoken Authors) - Softcover

"The best nature writer in the U.S. today also happens to write science fiction." --"The Ends of the Earth"

"The foremost writer of literary utopias." "--Time" magazine

"It's no coincidence that one of our most visionary science fiction writers is also a profoundly good nature writer." --"Los Angeles Times"

"This stimulating little chapbook would work very well as a basis for classroom debate on speculative fiction, history, or the notion of free will." "--Publishers Weekly"

The Lucky Strike, the classic and controversial story Robinson has chosen for PM's new Outspoken Authors series, begins on a lonely Pacific island, where a crew of untested men are about to take off in an untried aircraft with a deadly payload that will change our world forever. Until something goes wonderfully wrong.
Plus ... A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions, in which Robinson dramatically deconstructs "alternate history" to explore what might have been if things had gone differently over Hiroshima that day. And featuring and in-depth, no-holds-barred Outspoken Interview that takes the reader deep into the mind and work, the history and politics of the author.