A Short, Sharp Shock

Mass Market Paperback, 208 pages

English language

Published Feb. 1, 1996 by Bantam.

ISBN:
978-0-553-57461-6
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OCLC Number:
34305689

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Kim Stanley Robinson, award-winning author of the bestselling Red Mars, Green Mars, and the soon-to-be-published Blue Mars, was called "a literary landscape artist, creating breathtaking vistas" by The Detroit Metro News. Now he confirms his reputation for brilliance and for the unexpected in this luminous short work.A Short, Sharp ShockA 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 know only that the woman who 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 world encircled by a thin spine of land. Aided by strange tribesmen, he will journey to the cove of the spine kings, a brutal race that has enslaved the woman and several of the tribesmen. That is …

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Subjects

  • Science Fiction
  • General
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Fantasy - General
  • Science Fiction - General
  • Fiction / Science Fiction / General