Short, Sharp Shock - Softcover

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Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952. After travelling and working around the world, he settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched hard science of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win.

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A man out of time…is a man in deep water.

A man tumbles through wild surf, half-drowned, to collapse on a moonlit beach. When he regains consciousness, he has no memory of who he is or where he came from. He knows only that the woman who was washed ashore with him has disappeared sometime in the night, and that he has awakened in a surreal landscape of savage beauty – a mysterious watery landscape encircled by a thin spit of land.

In a perverse world of which he has no understanding, he must struggle to find the women held hostage by a savage cannibalistic tribe. But he must also struggle to find himself, because he has no idea what he is, or why he's here.

'Short Sharp Shock' finds Robinson writing at the height of his imaginative power. Moving, mysterious and exotic, this is a real page-turner with a fascinating conundrum at its very heart.

'If I had to chose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson'
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW