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SCIENCE FICTION WRITER  ROBERT J. SAWYER  Best Novel Hugo and Nebula Award Winner SFWRITER.COM > Novels > Hominids   Hugo Award Winner!     HOMINIDS     A novel by Robert J. Sawyer   Hugo Award Winner! John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalist! Aurora Award Finalist! Seiun Award Finalist! Spectrum Award Finalist! Three Months on the Locus Hardcover Bestsellers List! Year's Best List: San Francisco Chronicle Year's Best List: Borders Books Tor Books Lead Science-Fiction Paperback, February 2003 ISBN 0-765-34500-5 Tor Books Lead Science-Fiction Hardcover, May 2002 ISBN 0-312-87692-0 Unabridged audiobook from Audible.com   Discover What It Means To Be Human A bridge opens to a parallel Earth where Neanderthals survived to the present day and we did not. Hugo Award Winner! Reviews: Excerpts from many sources Full text from SF Site Full text from MT Void Full text from SciFi Dimensions Full text from Science Fiction Weekly Full text from SFRA Review Hugo finalist Pat Forde's in-depth analysis of the book Interview Topics (news hooks for media) Opening Chapters Typical Passage (a quick taste of the novel) Special Canadian Edition of the book jacket Hear Rob interviewed about Hominids on the long-running SF radio program Hour 25 Rob is on the Friday, June 21, 2002, edition, available online). Hear Rob read from Hominids as part of SciFiAudio Publication-quality version of the book's cover US Covers Czech Cover Jacket text Blurbs from other authors Reading Group guide Acknowledgments -- the Who's Who of experts on Neanderthals Rob consulted while writing this book Press Release Is it Neanderthal or Neandertal? Further Reading A Guide to Neanderthal Timekeeping Rob's essay for Maclean's about "Alibi Archives" "Committing Trilogy: The Origins of the Neanderthal Parallax" A Synopsis of This Novel Rob's May 2002 newsletter with information about Hominids (PDF file, 837 kilobytes) Rob's CBC column on Quantum Computers Rob's CBC column on The Great Leap Forward Rob's CBC column on Neanderthals as a Separate Species Rob's CBC column on The Electromagnetic Nature of Consciousness Attention students: Looking for critical discussions of Hominids? See the article by Warren G. Rochelle in SFRA Review, a publication of the Science Fiction Research Association, issue #258 (May-June 2002); the full text is available as a PDF document (see page 17). Hominids is also discussed in The Gospel According to Science Fiction by Gabriel McKee (Westminster John Knox Press, 2007), and in the essay "The Science and Religion Dialogue in the Science Fiction of Robert J. Sawyer" by Valerie Broege in The Everyday Fantastic: Essays on Science Fiction and Human Being, Michael Berman, editor (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008). See also this in-depth discussion of the whole Neanderthal Parallax trilogy: "Double Vision: Robert Sawyer's Utopian Dystopia" by Richard Parent in The New York Review of Science Fiction, June 2004, pages 19-22. More information about Humans, including links to a sneak peek at the second volume in the trilogy (don't read this until after you've read Hominids!). More information about Hybrids, including links to a sneak peek at the third volume in the trilogy (don't read this until after you've read Humans!). Buy the Hominids PAPERBACK from your Favorite Local Bookseller, or   U.S.:   Canada: U.K.: Or buy an Autographed Copy directly from Rob! No Bookseller Left Behind! If your store routinely stocks new copies of Hominids, and offers a mail-order service, send an email to Rob with the URL of your catalog page for Hominids, and he'll add a link to it right here. And if you'd like a supply of free autographed Hominids bookplates for your customers, just let Rob know how many you need and where to send them.   More Good Reading   Other novels by Robert J. Sawyer

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