Combining masterful storytelling with a deeply humanistic vision, Kim Stanley Robinson is known not only as the most literary but also as the most progressive (see "radical") of contemporary top science fiction writers.

Lucky Strike, this classic and controversial story, begins on a remote Pacific island, where a crew of untested men is about to take off in an untested aircraft loaded with a deadly cargo that will change our world forever. Until something goes unexpectedly and wonderfully wrong...

An alternative history of the bombing of Hiroshima with the radical perspective of Kim Stanley Robinson.