 Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax)
by Robert J. Sawyer
The first book of a major SF trilogy of parallel worlds, by the award-winning authorRobert Sawyers SF novels are regularly nominated for the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award. These very different books have only their strengths in common: imaginative originality, unique scientific extrapolation, and great stories.Hominids, the first book of the Neanderthal Parallax, is a story of parallel worlds: our own, and another in which neanderthals, not homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligent species. In that world, neanderthal civilization has reached heights of culture and science comparable to our own, but very different in detail and philosophy. During a risky physics experiment deep in a mine in Canada, a neanderthal physicist, Ponter Boddi... Read more... |