![]() ![]() For most of the 1980s, The Wild Shore stood on its own merits. ![]() But I don't want to discuss the series yet - it would take Robinson four years to write the next book, The Gold Coast, and another two years for the concluding book in the trilogy, Pacific Edge. Robinson's ambition is not clear from the start, unlike Gibson's, but The Wild Shore is indeed ambitious, and the implications deepen and develop as the series continues. The two books are worlds apart, in tone and intent, but that only speaks to me of the power and versatility of science fiction. The Wild Shore is an astonishing novel on its own, and I would rank this debut novel in the same league as that other, more famous debut from 1984, Gibson's Neuromancer. To start on a controversial note, I would like to say that Robinson's Three Californias series, of which The Wild Shore forms the first part, is one of the most brilliant series in science fiction. The Wild Shore, Kim Stanley Robinson, Orb, 1995, 378 pp. Review of Kim Stanley Robinson's The Wild Shore ![]()
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