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Kim Stanley Robinson, award-winning writer of the best-selling trilogy Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars, was called "a literary scenery artist, creating breathtaking vistas" by the Detroit Metro Information. Now he confirms his reputation for brilliance as well as for the unforeseen in this luminous brief work.A guy tumbles through untamed surf, one half drowned, to collapse on the moonlit beach. When he regains consciousness, he does not have any recollection of who he's or where he originated from. He understands only that the girl who cleaned ashore with him has vanished sometime in the night time and that he has awakened in a surreal scenery of savage beauty-a incomprehensible watery world encircled by the thin backbone of land. Aided by bizarre tribesmen, he journeys to the cove of the backbone kings, a brutal race that has enslaved the girl and several of the tribesmen. That is only the start of his search, as he battles to find her id in this wondrous and cruel land-and looks for out the girl whose hold on his imagination is both unfathomable and unshakable. Haunting and lyrical, filled up with unusual beauty and terrible peril, A Brief, Sharp Shock can be an ambitious and enthralling tale by one of knowledge fiction's esteemed abilities. Kim Stanley Robinson is known for the verisimilitude of his personas as well as for the meticulously investigated hard-science basis of his work. His works contain ecological topics and focus on the strong hyperlink between the individual personas and the natural world. He has acquired both Nebula and Hugo honors.
