Q&A Kim Stanley Robinson

摘要

For readers unfamiliar with your work, Shaman may seem a departure from your usual sf novels. If we look closely, where will we see the science in this paleontological novel? In the last two decades, archeology has made huge strides in its understanding of Paleolithic people, and I've used those scientific advances to try a fresh portrait of them. The newly discovered Chauvet Cave [in southern France] gave me a time and a place for my story, and the Ice Man, discovered [c. 1991] emerging from a glacier with all his gear intact, was very suggestive [of] their technology. So this book is sf in that only by way of science do we have this ever-clearer vision of our past, making it possible to tell the story.