Shaman

"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."