''A Short, Sharp Shock'' (sometimes titled ''Short, Sharp Shock'') is a 1990 fantasy novel by
Kim Stanley Robinson.
[Kim Stanley Robinson, ''A Short, Sharp Shock'', Harpers Collins, 1990] The story deals with a man who awakens without memory in a strange land and journeys through it to find the woman he woke alongside.
His journey takes him along the narrow strip of land, surrounded by ocean, which makes up the whole world.
The phrase "
short, sharp shock" is taken from
Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan was a Victorian era, Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), who jointly created fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which ...
's operetta ''
The Mikado''.
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External links
Google Books
1990 American novels
Novels by Kim Stanley Robinson
American fantasy novels
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