Book Review: “Shaman” by Kim Stanley Robinson — Reviewed by Andrew Robins

Book Review:Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson — Reviewed by Andrew Robins
Orbit, 2013, Trade Paperback edition, 456 pp

Last year, I reviewed Kim Stanley Robinson’s excellent 2312. I very much enjoyed that book, so when the opportunity came up to review Shaman, I stuck my hand up and said, “yes please.”

Shaman is a very different book, in a very different setting. This the Earth of 30,000 years ago. Ice grips the planet, and Mankind’s hold on life is uncertain– but some of the themes explored in th...