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# Humans: The Neanderthal Parallax, Book 2

**Brand:** robert j. sawyer
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			        		&quot;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 Sawyer.&quot;--David Brin on &quot;Humans &quot;&quot;Hominids is anthropological fiction at its best.&quot;-- W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O&apos;Neal Gear, &quot;USA Today-bestselling &quot;authors of Raising Abel &quot;A rapidly plotted, anthropologically saturated speculative novel . . . [with] Sawyer-signature wide appeal.&quot; &quot;-The Globe & Mail on &quot;Hominids
						    	
					    	
						
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			        		Robert J. Sawyer is the author of the Neanderthal Parallax series, including the Hugo Award-winning Hominids. He won the Nebula Award for The Terminal Experiment and the Aurora Award for FlashForward, basis for the ABC TV series. He is also the author of the WWW series&#x2015;Wake, Watch and Wonder&#x2015;and many other books. He was born in Ottawa and lives in Toronto.
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I love this series! I've always enjoyed anthropological sci-fi and thrillers.  This is one of the best.  Most explore what it means to be human by presenting "the other" as non-human.  In this series that is done by juxtaposing 2 very different kinds of humanity.  The first book introduces two earths, 2 ways to evolve and live in the environment.  The relationship between genders is explored, how crime is handled, scientific and philosophical differences compared.  This second novel tackles questions of love, the soul, religion, and punishment.  I love Pinter and Mare! We will see how the greater problems in each world are solved as well as there own challenges. Next book please!
            
*by R***R on July 10, 2017*

I love this series! I've always enjoyed anthropological sci-fi and thrillers.  This is one of the best.  Most explore what it means to be human by presenting "the other" as non-human.  In this series that is done by juxtaposing 2 very different kinds of humanity.  The first book introduces two earths, 2 ways to evolve and live in the environment.  The relationship between genders is explored, how crime is handled, scientific and philosophical differences compared.  This second novel tackles questions of love, the soul, religion, and punishment.  I love Pinter and Mare! We will see how the greater problems in each world are solved as well as there own challenges. Next book please!
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Part Two of a Terrific Series
            
*by B***K on July 20, 2013*

This is Book Two of the Neanderthal Parallax.  The basic premise is that a portal has been accidentally opened between our own world and that of a parallel one in which neanderthals were the ones who evolved and "gliiksins" (us) died out.  The time of the separation is estimated to have been about 40,000 years ago, although we will have to wait until Book Three (with some hints at the end of this one) about how the split occurred.  I confess I don't understand enough about quantum theory to know how plausible this all is, but have no trouble taking it as scientifically demonstrated within the story.Ponter Boddit accidentally -- and then later purposefully -- crossed over into our world, found himself in a deep nickel mine in Canada, and managed to make himself understood because of an implanted computer device that was able to translate English for him, however imperfectly.  He made friends with Mary Vaughan, a Canadian geneticist who was able to demonstrate that he was in fact descended from neanderthals based on her research in DNA from fossils.  In fact, they became such good friends that Ponter invited Mary to visit his world for his daughter's bonding ceremony.  Not much like the Catholic marriage she had been through many years before.See, Ponter's people do not have any religion: no God, no afterlife, none of that.  So his understanding of Mary's hang-ups is limited, and she continues to be shocked and/or upset by things that are completely natural in Ponter's world, and I have to admit I side with him on much of this.  But I must admit I don't think I could participate in the flensing of a deer carcass, either.But this is not merely a reciprocal travelogue of the two worlds.  It is a deeply human (yes, human is the right word on both sides of the portal) story of complexity and sensitivity.  Perhaps we can get a glimpse of just how sensitive by the fact that Book Three is entitled "Hybrids."  I've started reading it at once.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Book number two of a three book fantasy series
            
*by M***E on January 3, 2019*

Book number two of a three book fantasy series.  I read the well printed and bound MMPB.  I am reading the trade paperback of the third book, _Hybrids_, now.The inter-dimensional gateway between the Homo Sapiens and Homo Neanderthal worlds has been re-established.  The various governments on both sides of the gateway are being stupid.  I am not surprised.The rapist was revealed.  I was surprised.  And the solution was most unexpected and, deserved.
  

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