

A Short, Sharp Shock
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrator: Richard Powers
Unabridged: 4 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 03/06/2012
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrator: Richard Powers
Unabridged: 4 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 03/06/2012
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Kim Stanley Robinson is a bestselling author 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 Forty Signs 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 Sierra Nevada Research Institute. For his book Antarctica, he was sent to the Antarctic by the US National Science Foundation as part of their Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program.
Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory, and Bewilderment was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Surreal with a strange logic underlying it all. The geography of the world is fascinating: a thin peninsular continent that runs across the equator of a water world. It's populated by strange creatures: men with trees growing out of their shoulders and women with faces on their eyes. The infighting......more
“The novels and short stories of Kim Stanley Robinson constitute one of the most impressive bodies of work in modern science fiction.”
New York Times“Kim Stanley Robinson, justly famous for his science fiction, has created a mesmerizing fantasy work in A Short, Sharp Shock…Robinson’s imagination is far-ranging and he has a pointed way with words…Robinson’s evocation of pain is unforgettable. A Short, Sharp Shock is guaranteed to haunt the reader for a long time.”
Amazon.com, editorial review