A Short Sharp Shock

About this book

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 Shock A 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 only the beginning of his quest as he struggles to find her identity in this wondrous and cruel land -- and seeks out the woman whose hold on his imagination is both unfathomable and unshakable. Haunting and lyrical filled with uncommon beauty and terrible peril A Short Sharp Shock is an ambitious and enthralling story by one of science fictions most respected talents.