Neanderthal Parallax #2
Tor Books
November 2004
On Sale: November 1, 2004
400 pages ISBN: 076534906X EAN: 9780765349064 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
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
Neanderthal version of Earth in loving detail - a tour de
force of world-building; a masterpiece of alternate
history.
Now, in Hybrids, Ponter Boddit and
his Homo sapiens lover, geneticist Mary Vaughan, are torn
between two worlds, struggling to find a way to make their
star-crossed relationship work. Aided by banned Neanderthal
technology, they plan to conceive the first hybrid child, a
symbol of hope for the joining of their two versions of
reality.
But after an experiment shows that Mary's
religious faith - something completely absent in
Neanderthals - is a quirk of the neurological wiring of Homo
sapiens brains, Ponter and Mary must decide whether their
child should be predisposed to atheism or belief. Meanwhile,
as Mary's Earth is dealing with a collapse of its planetary
magnetic field, her boss, the enigmatic Jock Krieger, has
turned envious eyes on the unspoiled Eden that is the
Neanderthal world . . . Hybrids is filled to bursting
with Sawyer's signature speculations about alternative ways
of being human, exploding our preconceptions of morality and
gender, of faith and love. His Neanderthal Parallax trilogy
is a classic in the making, and here he brings it to a
stunning, thought-provoking conclusion that's sure to make
Hybrids one of the most controversial books of the year.
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