By Robert J. Sawyer

Robert Sawyer's SF novels are perennial nominees for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, or either. basically, he needs to be doing whatever correct considering that each has been anything new and diverse. What they do have in universal is innovative originality, nice tales, and special clinical extrapolation. His most recent isn't any exception.

Hominids is a robust, stand-alone SF novel, yet it's additionally the 1st booklet of The Neanderthal Parallax, a trilogy that might learn exact species of individuals. they're alien to one another, but certain jointly by way of the unending quest for wisdom and, underneath their adjustments, a typical humanity. we're a type of species, the opposite is the Neanderthals of a parallel international the place they, now not Homo sapiens, turned the dominant intelligence. In that global, Neanderthal civilization has reached heights of tradition and technological know-how resembling our personal, yet is especially various in historical past, society, and philosophy.

During a dicy test deep in a mine in Canada, Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist, unintentionally pierces the barrier among worlds and is transferred to our universe, the place within the comparable mine one other scan is happening. damage, yet alive, he's shortly famous as a Neanderthal, yet purely a lot later as a scientist. he's captured and studied, on my own and bewildered, a stranger in an odd land. yet Ponter is usually befriended-by a physician and a physicist who percentage his questing intelligence and boundless enthusiasm for the world's strangeness, and particularly by means of geneticist Mary Vaughan, a lonely girl with whom he develops a distinct rapport.

Meanwhile, Ponter's companion, Adikor Huld, reveals himself with a messy lab, a lacking physique, suspicious humans throughout, and an explosive homicide trial that he can't probably win simply because he has no thought what really occurred. speak about a systematic challenge!

Contact among people and Neanderthals creates a dating fraught with clash, philosophical problem, and probability to the life of 1 species or the other-or both-but both wealthy in boundless chances for cooperation and development on many degrees, from the sensible to the esthetic to the clinical to the religious. briefly, Robert J. Sawyner has performed it back.

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