Hybrids (Neanderthal Parallax, #3) by Robert J. Sawyer
››› Download audio book. ‹‹‹ Original Title: Hybrids (Neanderthal Parallax, #3) ISBN: 076534906X ISBN13: 9780765349064 Autor: Robert J. Sawyer Rating: 4.2 of 5 stars (5213) counts Original Format: Paperback, 400 pages Download Format: PDF, RTF, ePub, CHM, MP3. Published: November 1st 2004 / by Tor Science Fiction / (first published September 1st 2003) Language: English Genre(s): Science Fiction- 203 users Fiction- 67 users
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Description: In the Hugo-Award winning Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer introduced a character readers will never forget: Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel Earth who was whisked from his reality into ours by a quantum-computing experiment gone awry - making him the ultimate stranger in a strange land. In that book and in its sequel, Humans, Sawyer showed us the Neandertha
About Author:
Robert J. Sawyer is one of Canada's best known and most successful science fiction writers. He is the only Canadian (and one of only 7 writers in the world) to have won all three of the top international awards for science fiction: the 1995 Nebula Award for The Terminal Experiment, the 2003 Hugo Award for Hominids, and the 2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Mindscan. Robert Sawyer grew up in Toronto, the son of two university professors. He credits two of his favourite shows from the late 1960s and early 1970s, Search and Star Trek, with teaching him some of the fundamentals of the science-fiction craft. Sawyer was obsessed with outer space from a young age, and he vividly remembers watching the televised Apollo missions. He claims to have watched the 1968 classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey 25 times. He began writing science fiction in a high school club, which he co-founded, NASFA (Northview Academy Association of Science Fiction Addicts). Sawyer graduated in 1982 from the Radio and Television Arts Program at Ryerson University, where he later worked as an instructor. Sawyer's first published book, Golden Fleece (1989), is an adaptation of short stories that had previously appeared in the science-fiction magazine Amazing Stories. This book won the Aurora Award for the best Canadian science-fiction novel in English. In the early 1990s Sawyer went on to
publish his inventive Quintaglio Ascension trilogy, about a world of intelligent dinosaurs. His 1995 award winning The Terminal Experiment confirmed his place as a major international sciencefiction writer. A prolific writer, Sawyer has published more than 10 novels, plus two trilogies. Reviewers praise Sawyer for his concise prose, which has been compared to that of the science-fiction master Isaac Asimov. Like many science fiction-writers, Sawyer welcomes the opportunities his chosen genre provides for exploring ideas. The first book of his Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, Hominids (2002), is set in a near-future society, in which a quantum computing experiment brings a Neanderthal scientist from a parallel Earth to ours. His 2006 Mindscan explores the possibility of transferring human consciousness into a mechanical body, and the ensuing ethical, legal, and societal ramifications. A passionate advocate for science fiction, Sawyer teaches creative writing and appears frequently in the media to discuss his genre. He prefers the label "philosophical fiction," and in no way sees himself as a predictor of the future. His mission statement for his writing is "To combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic."
Other Editions:
- Hybrids (Neanderthal Parallax, #3)
- Hybrids (Neanderthal Parallax, #3)
- Híbridos (El paralaje Neanderthal, #3)
- Hybrids (Paperback)
- Hybrids: Volume Three of The Neanderthal Parallax (Audio CD)
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- Humans (Neanderthal Parallax, #2)
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Rewiews:
Jul 22, 2011 Ian Rated it: liked it Shelves: religion-spirituality, audiobook, spec-fic, genre-bending, politics I startedmy review of Hominids, the first book, by saying it was a pretty good start to the trilogy. Not great, but pretty good, and ultimately a little disappointing because a Hugo-winner should be better than, well, pretty good. Now I’ve finished the trilogy and Hybrids is solid ending. Not great, but, well, solid. Still I don’t feel the minor disappointment I felt with the first book because my expectations had been lowered from great to average, so reading a nice, solid ending was satisfyi I startedmy review of Hominids, the first book, by saying it was a pretty good start to the trilogy. Not great, but pretty good, and ultimately a little disappointing because a Hugo-winner should be better than, well, pretty good. Now I’ve finished the trilogy and Hybrids is solid ending. Not great, but, well, solid. Still I don’t feel the minor disappointment I felt with the first book because my expectations had been lowered from great to average, so reading a nice, solid ending was satisfying. The tender love scenes got a little too tender for me, veering into to gag-me-with-a-spoon territory. The bad guy’s evil plot got a little too eeeevvviill if you know what I mean. But the author certainly knows how to drive a plot, building and changing dynamic along the way. The rape of a main character, which I found so ill-used (even inappropriately-used) in the first book, finally leads to some interesting, if not entirely plausible, plot twists and some sort-of meaningful discussion about rape as a subject. The overall idea I still found interesting, and I still love the use of the Neanderthal to provide incisive commentary on contemporary social and political topics, a la Michael Valentine in Stranger in a Strange Land . Some may complain the commentary is obvious, but I think that’s missing the point. The commentary is not supposed to be subtle; like Mike the Martian, Ponter the Neanderthal lays his dumfounded criticism of our fucked-up world right out on the table for all to see. If you don’t like it, Ponter would say, then do something about it, change your world for the better and don’t leave it open to such obvious censure.
P.S. I don't normally do this, but ... 3.5 stars. 7 likes
