Tibbets had chosen his men well - most of them, anyway. In peacetime Fitch would be hanging around a pool table giving the cops trouble. Until something goes wonderfully 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. The Lucky Strike by Kim Stanley Robinson 424 ratings, 3.87 average rating, 84 reviews Open Preview The Lucky Strike Quotes Showing 1-1 of 1 A thug. 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 Dream 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, where a crew of untested men are about to take off in an untried aircraft with a deadly payload that will change our world forever. His bestselling Mars Trilogy tells the epic story of the future colonization of the red planet, and the revolution that inevitably follows. Combining dazzling speculation with a profoundly humanist vision, Kim Stanley Robinson is known as not only the most literary but also the most progressive (read ' radical') of today's top rank SF authors.
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