Shadow Hunter

by Will Baker

Book Overview

In a world full of supermalls, feel-good drugs, and computer-guided traffic patterns, thirteen-year-old Ronald is kidnapped by a secretive cave-dwelling people, and the ruling government responds with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671790463
• ISBN13: 9780671790462
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

A complicated book.

This book delves into a variety of things: Science Fiction, Nature, Pyschology, and Economics, as well as blends between those subjects. It does this very well. But I, personally, have not been excited by three of those four subjects, so for me, the book was fairly boring. It was well-written, but the page-turning aspect, as well as getting a 'feel' for it and sinking into it, and identifying with the main character...simply didn't happen.A good book, but just not for me. It may be for you.

Thought-provoking Environmental Science Fiction

I'm surprised to be the first person reviewing this book because it's been out for five years and was quite well-received when it was released, both in the sci-fi and environmental communities. The politics and "atomsphere" do occasionally outweigh characterization in this novel, but they don't detract from the author's purpose, which is to get the reader to think about the ways in which humans live in community with each other and with the larger world. Clearly influenced by the ideologies and thinking of the Deep Ecology movement, Baker imagines a blasted, divided world in which all of "nature" has joined together in a last desperate attempt to bring human civilization into equilibrium with the rest of the natural world. A very engaging read, and one that will leave you thinking about real ideas and humanity's place in the natural order of things. This book is ideal for the sci-fi reader looking for something to read on his or her next hiking or biking trip, or anyone else with an interest in futurology and the outdoors.