Book description
The Wild Shore is the first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson's highly-acclaimed Three Californias Trilogy.
2047: For the small Pacific Coast community of San Onofre, life in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack is a matter of survival, a day-to-day struggle to stay alive. But young Hank Fletcher dreams…
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1 author picked The Wild Shore as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Books that imagine the future fascinate me—Station Eleven was a favorite a few years ago—and The Wild Shore imagines a strange future for my native Southern California.
Written in 1984, it presents a world of isolated communities without modern conveniences and with only vague and fading recollections of the past. Living by harvesting local resources and bartering with other small communities, the young residents of this village hope for change and toy with joining a resistance movement.
The older village member who teaches reading and recounts his own version of history is brilliantly drawn. I was most intrigued by…
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Misanthropic psychologist Dr. Grace Park is placed on the Deucalion, a survey ship headed to an icy planet in an unexplored galaxy. Her purpose is to observe the thirteen human crew members aboard the ship—all specialists in their own fields—as they assess the colonization potential of the planet, Eos. But…
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