A Short, Sharp Shock Audiobook (Free)

Kim Stanley Robinson, award-winning author of the bestselling trilogy Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars, was called “a literary landscaping artist, creating breathtaking vistas” by the Detroit Metro News. Today he confirms his status for brilliance as well as for the unexpected in this luminous short function.

A guy tumbles through wild surf, half drowned, to collapse on a moonlit seaside. When he regains awareness, he has no memory space of who he’s or where he originated from. He knows only that the woman who about A Short, Sharp Surprise washed ashore with him offers disappeared sometime in the night time and that he has awakened in a surreal panorama of savage beauty-a secret watery globe encircled by a thin backbone of land. Aided by strange tribesmen, he journeys to the cove of the spine kings, a brutal race which has enslaved the woman and several of the tribesmen. That’s only the beginning of his mission, as he struggles to find her identity with this wondrous and cruel land-and looks for out the girl whose hang on his imagination is usually both unfathomable and unshakable.

Haunting and lyrical, filled with unusual beauty and terrible peril, A BRIEF, Sharp Shock is an ambitious and enthralling story by among science fiction’s most respected talents.