Mary is reeling from being recently raped by a masked man on the University campus, and finds this a welcome distraction along with the scientific opportunity of a lifetime along with her friend physicist Louise Benoit, who'd initially encountered the man. Geneticist Mary Vaughn, a professor at Toronto's York University is called in to determine that the man really is a Neanderthal. This is interrupted by the mysterious arrival of a strange man, who is believed by the people who meet him to be a Neanderthal. In Sudbury, Ontario, the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory is conducting a physics experiment. The initial contact between the two worlds takes place at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Sudbury, Ontario, which is also the location of a scientific research facility in the Neanderthal world.Īs the books unfold, the term human is used to refer to both species both species agree to use the Neanderthal terms- gliksin for members of Homo sapiens and barast for members of Homo neanderthalensis-to distinguish between them. In 2017, the full trilogy was presented the Aurora Award for Best of the Decade. Campbell Award the same year Humans was a 2004 Hugo Award finalist. Hominids first appeared as a serial in Analog Science Fiction, won the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the John W. The trilogy's volumes are Hominids (published 2002), Humans (2003), and Hybrids (2003). The societal, spiritual and technological differences between the two worlds form the focus of the story. It depicts the effects of the opening of a connection between two versions of Earth in different parallel universes: the world familiar to the reader, and another where Neanderthals became the dominant intelligent hominid.
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