![]() The complication: the Neanderthals’ legal system depends almost entirely on advanced computer science and a universal surveillance system. Back home, the scientist’s disappearance brings a friend of his under suspicion of murder. A scientist is transported by accident to our timeline, where he and our contemporaries experience mutual culture shock. In this case, a Neanderthal society has evolved on a parallel Earth. Hominids, like Montesquieu’s classic model The Persian Letters, is a “foreign visitor” story in which “aliens” provide a new perspective on current social norms. ![]() ![]() Let’s take a brief look at Hominids to start with his somewhat earlier novel Calculating God is similar to it in some ways. Sawyer is one of the major authors in the genre today have to know it now that his novel Hominids has won the 2003 Hugo award. IntroductionĪny science-fiction fans who were unaware that Robert J. ![]()
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