The Wild Shore

By Kim Stanley Robinson,

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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…

Spoliation

By Ian J. Miller,

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Ian J. Miller Author Of A Face on Cydonia

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What is my book about?

To hide a corporation’s failure to properly service a space ship, Captain Jonas Stryker is prosecuted but saved from imprisonment by a dying man, who hires Stryker to collect asteroids for their mineral content. Stryker soon finds he must stop a shadowy corporate group called The Board, who employ space piracy, terrorism, and even weaponised asteroids to overthrow the Federation government.

Set in Lagrange points, space stations, the Moon and outback Australia, it is a fast-moving story with some speculative future technology. If you were interested in the NASA attempt to alter the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos, you might…

Spoliation

By Ian J. Miller,

What is this book about?

When a trial to cover-up a corporate failure ends Captain Jonas Stryker's career, he wants revenge against The Board, a ruthless, shadowy organization with limitless funds that employs space piracy, terrorism, and even weaponised asteroids. Posing as a space miner, Stryker learns that The Board wants him killed, while a young female SCIB police agent wants retribution against him for having her career spoiled at his trial. As Stryker avoids attempts to kill him, he becomes the only chance to prevent The Board from overturning the Federation Government and imposing a Fascist-style rule.
A story of greed, corruption and honour,…


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