Lucky Strike

US: PM Press, 2009. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Combining dazzling speculation with a profoundly humanist vision, Kim Stanl ey Robinson is known as not only the most literary but also the most progre ssive (read "radical") of today's top rank SF authors. His bestselling Mars Trilogy tells the epic story of the future colonization of the red planet, and the revolution that inevitably follows. The Years of Rice and Salt is based on a devastatingly simple idea: If the medieval plague had wiped out all of Europe, what would our world look like today? His novel Galileo's Dr eam is a stunning combination of historical drama and far-flung space opera , in which the ten dimensions of the universe itself are rewoven to ensnare history's most notorious torturers. "The Lucky Strike," the classic and controversial story Robinson has chosen for PM's Outspoken Authors series, begins on a lonely Pacific island, wher e a crew of untested men are about to take off in an untried aircraft with a deadly payload that will change our world forever. Until something goes w onderfully wrong ... Plus: "A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions," in which Robinson dramatically deconstructs "alternate history" to explore what might have been if things had gone differently over Hiroshima that day. As with all Outspoken Author books, there is a deep interview and autobiography: at length, in-depth, no-holds-barred, and all-bets-off: an extended tour though the mind and work, the history and politics of our Outspoken Author. Surprises are promised.