Product Description An award-winning and bestselling SF writer, Kim Stanley Robinson is widely acknowledged as one of the most exciting and visionary writers in the field. His latest novel, 2312, imagined how we would be living 300 years from now. Now, with his new novel, he turns from our future to our past - to the Palaeolithic era, and an extraordinary moment in humanity's development. An emotionally powerful and richly detailed portrayal of life 30,000 years ago, it is a novel that will appeal both to his existing fans and a whole new mainstream readership. Review Robinson's expert world building and lyrical prose offer Jack London-esque pleasures as they depict the stark beauties of the icy landscape - it's desolation, dangers and the desperate choices it forces people to make when pushed to the edge of existence. Richly detailed. -- KIRKUS REVIEWSThis novel bears the markings of Robinson's consummate skill with a sort of anthropological fiction...Spectacular world building. -- BOOKLISTA seriously composed and compelling novel about prehistoric life...some of the most intelligent entertainment you can find. -- NPR BOOKSA thrilling journey through an age of ice and stone - one of Kim Stanley Robinson's best! -- GREG BEARThis book proves once again that Robinson's fascination with the human condition and mankind's journey transcends easy genre labels...Despite all his previous accolades, this may be Robinson's best work to date, focused so sharply as it is on the simplest way of being human. -- LIBRARY JOURNALVivid and beautiful . . . Astonishing ― GuardianAn amazing piece of recreation, vividly evoking the deprivations, animalistic beliefs and day-to-day struggles of a primitive tribe ― Financial TimesLow-tech lives and Ice Age conditions are all superbly evoked ― Daily MailRobinson's prose is rich and detailed . . . Superb ― SFXAn intelligent, and at times mesmerising novel ― Irish Examiner Book Description An extraordinary portrayal of life in the Palaeolithic era, 30,000 years into our past, by the multi-award-winning author described recently by the Sunday Times as 'one of science fiction's greats' About the Author Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. He is the author of over twenty previous books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the highly acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain. He lives in Davis, California.
