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I've spent the past couple of decades studying life in prehistoric societies, so I come to books like this with some skepticism as to whether the author will glorify, demonize, or just make a mess of his/her depiction. But I have to say that Mr. Robinson does a great job of providing a balanced and accurate view of how our ancestors probably lived. I won't go into detail here, but suffice it to say that I read nothing here that made me think he didn't have a firm grasp of the academic literature, and much that confirmed that he did. A wonderful book.


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Shaman Kim Stanley Robinson 9780316098076 Books Reviews

What an interesting turn for a Sci-Fi writer. It is a wonder that our specie survived - or is it? Robinson again leaves us with more questions than answers about ourselves. What more can you ask of good writing? Well paced. Nicely researched. I got very cold reading this book and strangely warmed.
Loved it. Easily one of my favorite new authors and just picked up 2312 so excited to start it as well. Helps if you know the setting, southern France, approx 35,000 years ago. Just really great reading.
My 7th Kim Stanley Robinson novel, and for sure my favorite. Great prose, characters I really began to care about, and a painstakingly researched backdrop of solid anthropology, geology, biology, etc. It's a great deal of fun to try and guess where the story is set. You'll know it when you see it.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I recognized the descriptions of Thorn and Loon’s cave paintings- they are from the Chauvet Cave in France. Googling Chauvet Cave or watching Werner Herzog’s documentary “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” about the cave might be interesting to some... It was fun looking at the photographs while reading about their artistic endeavors.
I enoyed this book set in the last Ice Age in Europe. The people are hunter-gatherers and live in small tribes. The climate is cold with a very short summer, so gathering enough food to get through the long winter and spring is a primary focus, as are relationships among tribe members and with other groups. Loon, the main character, is a reluctant shaman-in-training. The book is his coming-of-age tale. I did not give it 5 stars because the book occasionally uses words and images that are too modern. Did they really have "pails"? One character uses a modern swear word. Couples "got married". Would also have appreciated a glossary of some paleolithic terms used, especially for the animals that don't exist anymore. However, the book was still very interesting and a good read.
i read all of kim stanley robinson's books. he's my favorite science fiction writer.

this is easily the fastest moving, easiest to read, easiest to understand, book of his. it's also a very spiritual book, which shows us the very likely truth that early men/women had our same questions/awe/poetic explanations about the cosmos and its mysteries.

this story of cavemen creates people who become very real as we read about their daily lives/loves/concerns. although their time is very removed from ours, many of their fears/loves/pains/pleasures are basic to our species. the characters were movingly portrayed.

i was very touched by the scenes written here, showing the love, care, and emotional attachment we all (well, a lot of us) have for family and friends. that has not changed in all the millennia since, and might be our greatest strength as a species.

when i read about the cave paintings, i just got chills.....the words almost seemed to bring me right to those very moments in time, when early painters created their work using rudimentary tools, yet using their artistic/visual skills to replicate what they experienced, as they observed and hunted animals.

there is some beautiful poetry here, and some haunting portrayals. very highly recommended.
Robinson's best novel of those I have read. For those of us not thrilled with long tech-weenie descriptions of how things might work someday, Robinson's descriptions of stone age technology are more interesting than tedious (sometimes) renderings of terra-forming etc. Moreover, his characters in this novel are the most well developed human beings rendered in any of his novels. He manages to avoid a single thoroughly repulsive female character! Even the judgmental, temperamental, and churlish "Heather" is replete with redeeming features. I'd enjoy seeing a sequel to this and see how the clan prospers with "Loon" as Shaman.
I've spent the past couple of decades studying life in prehistoric societies, so I come to books like this with some skepticism as to whether the author will glorify, demonize, or just make a mess of his/her depiction. But I have to say that Mr. Robinson does a great job of providing a balanced and accurate view of how our ancestors probably lived. I won't go into detail here, but suffice it to say that I read nothing here that made me think he didn't have a firm grasp of the academic literature, and much that confirmed that he did. A wonderful book.