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'Vivid and beautiful . . . Astonishing' - Guardian

'A thrilling journey through an age of ice and stone - one of Kim Stanley Robinson's best!' - Greg Bear

An award-winning and bestselling SF writer, Kim Stanley Robinson is widely acknowledged as one of the most exciting and visionary writers…

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1 author picked Shaman as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This was one of those books that as I got past the halfway point I became sad as I realised I was heading towards the ending.

Set in prehistory, this book follows a young apprentice shaman making his way in a small hunter-gatherer band. I've never read a book that does such a good job of helping me live in my mind outside of our modern civilsation and with something approaching the view of the rest of the living world that our ancestors may have had.

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