The Wild Shore

Earlier this year I read this author's most recent novel, The Ministry For the Future. I liked it so much, I decided to read all his books, having not read any of them before. The Wild Shore is his debut and the first of a trilogy: Three Californias. Each book in the trilogy imagines a different futu......more

In the year 2047, humanity struggles to survive in the ruins of coastal California. Almost 50 years before, nuclear blasts decimated thousands of cities across the United States. However, this is the only world teenaged Henry knows: a world revolving around harvests, fishing, the howl of the Santa A......more

I had already read his Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars) and had liked them but had trouble at times with his didactic style/approach, even when I agreed with his point of view (which I don't always). However, this book was his first novel and I really liked it. It has a simplicity......more

This is a SF post-apoc novel of an unusual kind. There is a nuclear attack in the past that devastated the USA, but the book’s present is not a usual struggle of survival with mutants, radiation sickness and new glory, but a life in a rural post-war community. This is the debut novel by Kim Stanley......more

(...) Information is key in the novel. Just like the readers, the characters are in the dark about what happened. They are also in the dark about what is happening, for Robinson shows glimpses of a bigger narrative in world politics in the aftermath of the attack – but characters nor readers get to k......more