The Lucky Strike

(Paperback)

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The classic and controversial story which Robinson has personally chosen for PM Presss new Outspoken Authors series begins on a lonely Pacific island, where a crew of untested men are about to take off in an untried aircraft with a deadly payload that will change the world forever. Until, that is, something goes wonderfully wrong. As a special addition, Robinson has also included an essay, A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions, which dramatically deconstructs history to explore what might have been if things had gone differently over Hiroshima on that fateful day in 1945.

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"The foremost writer of literary utopias."
--Time

"The best nature writer in the U.S. today also happens to write science fiction."
--The Ends of the Earth

"It's no coincidence that one of our most visionary science fiction writers is also a profoundly good nature writer."
--Los Angeles Times

"If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson."
--The New York Times

Author Bio

Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of Antarctica, Fifty Degrees Below Zero, The Martians, Sixty Days and Counting, and The Years of Rice and Salt, as well as the award-winning Mars trilogy. He lives in Davis, California.