About this title: The first volume in this new science fiction trilogy examines the humans of this universe and the Neanderthals of a parallel world where they are the dominant intelligence. When a Neanderthal physicist pierces the barrier between the two worlds and finds himself in this universe, he is quarantined and studied, while in his own world his lab partner is investigated for his murder.
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780765345004ISBN:0765345005
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. Ex-Library with stickers and stamps. Light edge wear to soft cover. Covers reinforced for libray use. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 448 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very good. In great condition, a nice tight copy! Ships First Class with Delivery Confirmation to most U.S. locations for no extra charge. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Tor
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780765345004ISBN:0765345005
Description: Donato. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. VG+ 444 p. 1st mass market paperback edition from Tor, 2003. VERY GOOD PLUS. Donato cover art. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Tor, New York
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780765345004ISBN:0765345005
Description: Slight crease on spine, book is otherwise untouched. First in a t rilogy of novels (followed by "Homonids" and "Hybrids") in which human civilization encounters a parallel reality where Neandert ha ls became the dominant species. Winner of the Hugo Award... read more
Binding: MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
ISBN-13:9780765345004ISBN:0765345005
Description: Very Good. 0765345005 Mass Market Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light curve to the spine / light reading creases to the covers. read more
Description: Good. 0312876920 Ex-library book with stickers and stampings. Overall nice condition book with clean text and good binding unless otherwise noted. Most items ship within 24 hours. read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction, New York, NY
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780765345004ISBN:0765345005
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Tor Books, New York
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780765345004ISBN:0765345005
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. (061107) 1st Mass Market Paperback edition is in Very Good+/Fine condition with crinkle creases in spine, very light overall wear. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 448 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books, New York
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780312876920ISBN:0312876920
Description: Fair in Fair jacket. 0312876920 The covers have a little shelf wear and there is some creasing around the spine. The dust jacket is covered in library plastic. There are library stamps on the top edges of the pages and on the back endpaper. There is call number sticker on the spine and other library stickers on the back cover. The edges of the pages have some very slight soiling. Ponter Boddit, a Neaderthal scientist from a parallel world, ends up in our own world, trapped and confused by our ... read more
Description: As New. Appears to be unread, square and solid, perfect in every way-you'll howl at the moon with feverish glee upon receipt of this book! read more
Description: [0-765-34500-5] [date not indicated], later printing. (Mass market paperback)...Very good.......Award winner: Hugo 2003. Series: The Neanderthal Parallax 1....(Science Fiction) read more
"Like everything I've read by Sawyer, I liked this book, even though I found much of the writing pretty cringe-worthy. The first two paragraphs should show pretty well what I don't mean:
The blackness was absolute. Watching over it was Louise Benoît, twenty-eight, a statuesque postdoc from Montreal with a mane of thick brown hair stuffed, as required here, into a hair net. She kept her vigil in a cramped control room, buried two kilometers - "a mile an' a quarder," as she sometimes explained for American visitors in an accent that charmed them - beneath the Earth's surface.
"statuesqe", "mane of thick brown hair"? seriously?
When He's not writing about Louise Benoît (and he doesn't, much) the story is quite engaging and fun speculation."
"Neanderthals from another dimension break through into ours. The best part was the speculative nature of hominid evolution. The worst was that this was yet another "sci-fi society is so much cooler / better / gentler than ours." Especially galling in the basic economics issues. Why would Neanderthals be communists, exactly? I liked the archeological extrapolation but not the idealism projections."
"Overall, I liked this book. It was able to hold my attention enough not to relieve me of some insomnia I was experiencing one night. What I liked best about this book is that I was completely expecting the government to come in and try to abduct the poor Neanderthal like they did with ET, Starman, and Bumblebee from Transformers.
"Of coarse!" I said when I realized that that wasn't going to happen. Because this book takes place in Canada! A land where scientists can have intelligent conversations with a being not of this world (as we know it, at least) and a shady government agency doesn't try to interfere. Instead, in one scene the Canadian government dispatches some mounties to protect them from pesky reporters. That kind of storytelling makes me smile."
"While the author let some interesting cultural biases slip in, the speculations about what a Neanderthal-based civilization might have been like are fascinating. For instance, if your civilization has no strong privacy taboos, how would that be reflected in the culture and the law? Oddly, the place I had to suspend disbelief was socio-economic, as I didn't think the Neanderthal culture's structure worked well...it amounts to a high-tech barter system with no agricultural underpinning, and makes the assumption that since Neanderthal brains were larger, they must therefore have been smarter, and that therefore they would have gotten around the problem of feeding the non-hunter-gatherers in a hunter-gatherer society, and advanced from that. To be honest, that was a bigger leap than the idea that a quantum computer could open gateways into other worlds...In our world, agriculture was pretty much the first technology in each technological culture. Sawyer's alternate model just didn't convince me. Still, the story was really good, and the characters excellent."
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