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# Shaman Paperback – June 10, 2014

**Brand:** kim stanley robinson
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    an utterly captivating trip back human history
  

*by B***. on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 4, 2023*

Kim drops us back in human history 20,000 years.  And I was immediately engrossed.  This felt so right.  Yes, I thought, this is just what people would have been doing and would have been thinking this long ago.  No cave men with big clubs!  Intelligent, creative, resourceful, learning, feeling people!  And a great story with real people I cared about.  Oh, I didn't want it to end.  As good as the Mars series and many others of his books.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Innocence in the freezer.
  

*by I***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 20, 2013*

This book is a sort of docudrama of life in the upper Palaeolithic, say about 30,000 years ago. The characters are named after animals, or plants, or, in the case of the old shaman (Thorn) parts of plants. This gave me one disconcerting moment, where we have Cat up a tree watching. Sinister? Well, no. It is actually a cat thinking human thoughts.The story starts with the young Loon going on a wander. This involves leaving the tribe with nothing (including clothes) and having to survive for a fortnight. We follow him making fire, making clothes, hunting, gathering food, etc, and this is basically a microcosm of the rest of the book. There is a bit of an adventure in the second half but even this is mainly an outline of what Robinson thinks life in the upper Palaeolithic was like. I found this to be a bit silly in detail. The heroes have a long journey, and when they get home, they have run out of their food and they are nearly starved. Hold on! They are hunter gatherers. Those chasing them start of with wolves on leashes to track them. Again, hold on! Nobody puts a grey wolf on a leash, and even if they succeeded, the wolf will go after its food.There is a sort of innocence amongst all the characters: a sort of part of the garden of Eden transferred to the freezer. Robinson has done a lot of research, and what he describes seems authentic, however the way people behaved is perforce imaginary. And, of course, there is the curse of new discoveries. Robinson has the cave paintings done by male shamans, but recent evidence has indicated that the bulk of the hands are those of women, so it is most likely that many of the other paintings were also done by women.The story ends with the death of Thorn and Loon becoming the new shaman, and it is Loon that paints four horses. Robinson presumably intends this to be the very famous "four horses" painting, which places the action in Chauvet, in south east France. This makes walking north west to the sea a rather long journey, but apart from such considerations, I found this a genuinely interesting and enjoyable read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Coming of age during the Ice Age
  

*by V***B on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 14, 2021*

The opening pages of this book are not for everyone, as other reviewers have mentioned - it's a bit jarring to be thrown inside the head of a teenage boy who alternates between trying to survive a "Naked and Afraid" type scenario, and having sexual fantasies about everything from girls to deer to holes in the ground. But somehow, the book gains momentum and totally works. The main character's voice seems really authentic, balancing common themes like teenage rebellion, etc, with examples of how early humans in the ice age may have experienced these things as they came of age. Sure, Loon is an annoying teenager at the start of the book, but yet he has more survival skills than the average outdoorsman. He chafes at the path that adults are trying to rope him into (being a shaman), he looks forward to partying at the yearly festivals, he flirts with girls, etc. And as the book progresses, you can really see how he matures into a young man who is focused on his wife and children, as well as the good of his tribe. The MC can't be much older than 18-20 at the end of the book, since he is clearly pretty young at the start, but I'm impressed with his growth. Overall surprisingly realistic look at a boy coming of age during the Ice Age.

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