The Lucky Strike

The Lucky Strike, the classic and controversial story Robinson has chosen for PM's new Outspoken Authors series, begins on a lonely Pacific island, where a crew of untested men are about to take off in an untried aircraft with a deadly payload that will change our world forever. Until something goes wonderfully wrong.Plus ... A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions, in which Robinson dramatically deconstructs alternate history to explore what might have been if things had gone differently over Hiroshima that day. And featuring and in-depth, no-holds-barred Outspoken Interview that takes the reader deep into the mind and work, the history and politics of the author.