Shaman
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Buy on AmazonShaman: A Novel of the Ice Age is a 2013 novel by Kim Stanley Robinson. Set during the Ice Age, it tells the story of a trainee shaman, from a tribe of European early modern humans, who must learn the skills needed to survive and to aid his people.
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"It’s 32,000 years ago and an adolescent — Kim Stanley Robinson calls him Loon — who has been orphaned and taken under the wing of his tribe’s shaman hits the road and discovers all he needs to know to survive. Maybe it’s because the world Robinson creates feels so authentic and complete, but for several nights running, something happened: I dreamed I was living in Loon’s world, traveling in the same tribe, trekking along streams and rivers, through forest and over hill in an ancient state of mind."
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