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adamclarklawson 's review for:
Shaman
by Kim Stanley Robinson
After having read this book, I feel like I understand in a deeper way what prehistoric human life was like. I'm not even sure I would call the book good. But it is amazing what Robinson accomplished after putting so many constraints on himself. Were the analogies vivid and amazing? No. But he restrained himself to metaphors that people in the time of his writing could have gotten their heads around. I'm positive that if I tried to explain anything at all in prehistoric terms, I would make anachronistic mistakes on top of each other. You can tell that he was limiting his own vocabulary intensely since words themselves can be out-of-place metaphors. I think of Robinson as a science fiction author. There was definitely science involved here, but it was archaeology and anthropology. And... it feels very believable.