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The Wild Shore

The Wild Shore

DystopianPost-Apocalyptic
Pages
352
Published
1984
Language
English

Synopsis

In a future where America is quarantined after a nuclear attack, seventeen-year-old Henry dreams of restoring his country to its former glory. But for his community in Onofre Valley, simply surviving is a daily struggle. When two strangers arrive claiming to represent a new American resistance, Henry and his friends are pulled into an adventure that will force them to confront the harsh realities of their world and the end of their innocence.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

AdventurousTenseThought-Provoking
Coming of AgeSurvivalReluctant Hero

Genres

Dystopian Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction

About the author

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Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson (born 1952 in Waukegan, Illinois) is an American science fiction writer, best known for the Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars). His fiction centres on ecology, economics and the role of scientists in solving collective problems, and includes the Three Californias trilogy, The Years of Rice and Salt, 2312, New York 2140 and The Ministry for the Future. He holds a PhD in English from the University of California, San Diego, where he wrote on Philip K. Dick, and has...

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