Shaman: A Novel of the Ice Age (Audiobook)

from Book-Dragon1952

This novel takes place thirty thousand years ago during the ice age. We follow the tale of Loon and his pack trying to survive the very harsh environment of the ice age. He is destined to be the pack's next Shaman, or Medicine Man. This is not a position he wants, but has no real say about his pl...

from vladmihaisima

Fantasy about the life in the ice age. Tracks the adventures of a human, starting from his initiation rites, to finding and keeping a partner, to taking the place of the old shaman. There a lot of details about what the daily life must have been back then and we get the point of view of the chara...

from Ma_Washigeri

Had to skip through this detailed account of life in the stone age. Written well but wallowing in detail does not necessarily make a narrative more interesting. And regular comments on 'spurting' from a penis does not make it more grown up. And two or three vague references to the narrator inhabi...

from PDCRead

Having made his mark in science fiction Robinson is now writing historical fiction. I have read Galileo's Dream before, which i really enjoyed, so was looking forward to this one. This story is set in Palaeolithic times, when the glaciers set the northern boundary and is centred around a characte...

from nmele

I probably missed some, but this is the first book I've read in a long time that deals with characters from pre-history, a sub-genre that stretches back at least to Jack London. Robinson's characters, geography and ecology are all wuite plausible and engaging. HHe even makes knapping stones sound...