Humans: Volume Two of The Neanderthal Parallax

ISBN: 1455857327

Author: Sawyer, Robert J.

Condition: New

Product Description In the Hugo Award-winning Hominids, Neanderthal quantum physicist Ponter Boddit fell through an interdimensional portal into our version of reality. In this Hugo-nominated sequel, Ponter - a character youll never forget - returns to our world and his growing relationship with geneticist Mary Vaughan, exploring our society with his penetrating, alien gaze. Sawyer takes on guns, religious assumptions, automobiles, and even the Big Bang in this highly entertaining tale of a (more or less) rational Outsider. The chapter at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial should be required reading for anyone who wishes to sit in the Oval Office. - Jack McDevitt on Humans The most unusual love story youve ever read. - Rocky Mountain News on Humans The biggest job of science fiction is to portray the Other. To help us imagine the strange and see the familiar in eerie new ways. Nobody explores this territory more boldly than Robert J. Sawyer. - David Brin on Humans Hominids is anthropological fiction at its best. - W. Michael Gear and Kathleen ONeal Gear, USA Today bestselling authors of People of the Thunder Hominids belongs on the same shelf as Robert A. Heinleins Stranger in a Strange Land. - Starlog About the Author Robert J. Sawyer is the author of 20 novels, and is one of a handful of authors to have won the Hugo, Nebula and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards for Best Novel. The ABC TV series FlashForward is based on his novel of the same name. He was born in Ottawa and lives just outside of Toronto, Canada.