by Kim Stanley Robinson · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433440297
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«La Playa Salvaje» is the science fiction novel by Kim Stanley Robinson, published by Jucar Ediciones in paperback (338 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Henry, a seventeen-year-old youth living in San Onofre, a small surviving community on the California coast, in a world devastated by bombs. When two strangers from the American Resistance arrive in town, Henry discovers that North America is isolated under an international quarantine and that the struggle for dignity and human rights is only just beginning.
First installment of the Three Californias Triptych, translated by Domingo Santos. It won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and received a special mention from the Philip K. Dick in 1985.
Recommended for readers of post-apocalyptic science fiction and dystopias who want to start with Robinson's Californian trilogy.
Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer best known for his Mars trilogy of novels. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes, featuring scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the World Fantasy Award. The Atlantic magazine has called Robinson's work "the gold standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing." According to The New Yorker magazine, Robinson is "generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers."
