A Short, Sharp Shock

Kim Stanley Robinson

Original title: A short, sharp shock

earliest edition we have, 1990 Bantam, 1996 paperback 208 pages

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Kim Stanley Robinson, award-winning author of the bestselling Red Mars, Green Mars, and the soon-to-be-published Blue Mars, was called "a literary landscape artist, creating breathtaking vistas" by The Detroit Metro News. Now he confirms his reputation for brilliance and for the unexpected in this luminous short work.A Short, Sharp ShockA man tumbles through wild surf, half drowned, to collapse on a moonlit beach. Wh...

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Editions we hold

A Short, Sharp Shock paperback · 2015 · Anti-Oedipus Press · 154 pages · 9780990573340
A Short, Sharp Shock audiobook · 2012 · Blackstone Audiobooks · 9781433231049
A Short, Sharp Shock audiobook · 2012 · Blackstone Audiobooks · 9781433231056
A Short, Sharp Shock edition · 2009 · Random House Publishing Group · 9780307573957
A short, sharp shock edition · 2000 · HarperCollins · 180 pages
A Short, Sharp Shock paperback · 1996 · Bantam · 208 pages · 9780553574616
A short, sharp shock edition · 1990 · M.V. Ziesing · 147 pages

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