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Hybrids

af Robert J. Sawyer

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In Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer introduced a character listeners 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. 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 . . . Filled to bursting with his signature speculations about alternative ways of being human, exploding our preconceptions of morality and gender, of faith and love, Sawyer's Neanderthal Parallax trilogy is a classic in the making, and here he brings it to a stunning, thought-provoking conclusion. The conclusion to the Neanderthal Parallax trilogy… (mere)

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As always, Sawyer provides an interesting mixture of real science and philosophical what-ifs. But this concluding book of the trilogy just felt listless, lacking the tension of its predecessors. (

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Treebeard_404 | Jan 23, 2024 |

Un experimento científico hace posible la inesperada interacción entre dos universos paralelos, con la salvedad de que, en uno de ellos, la especie humana que ha predominado son los Neanderthales y no los Cromagnones, como ha ocurrido en nuestro mundo. Ponter Boddit y su hombre-compañero Adikor Huld, físicos neanderthales, han abierto un puente entre dos univeros dando lugar a una sorprendente comparación entre culturas radicalmente distintas. Una de esas diferencias es la percepción del hecho religioso, del todo ausente en los neanderthales.

Natt90 | Mar 9, 2023 |

This book was good, it had me enthralled into the mystery of what might happen if this or that happen, oh no what if they do this other thing! it was good (

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GridCube | Jan 17, 2022 |

My overall feeling at the end of this series is that I am very much interested in the combined universe that this trilogy is talking about, but I am not as thrilled with the plot set in them as I could have been.

Mary as a character was frustrating for me. She is intelligent and I think most of the time she made the right choices, but her conflicts over spiritual matters and her looks just don't ring very true for me. At the same time I'm not pleased by how the author chose to introduce her. His poor decision there is a major ding on the whole plot that forms a domino effect that plows through to the end of the last book in a rock-slide of unpleasantness. I felt like that incident drove a plot all the way through that was a sort of war-between-the-sexes story told with a baseball bat. Heavy handed, to say the least. I was interested in the cultural and sexual differences between the species there, but how the author explored them didn't go over well with me. I mean, this regimented sort of polyamory where same-sex relationships are the nesting partner relationships opens the world up to a big in-depth investigation of ethics, gender, sexuality, and all manner of things, but instead of that we get this lackluster investigation that privileges the Ponter-Mary bond!

Ponter comes across as both human and alien, which is the point I would guess. I am fond of him. For their parts, most of the Neanderthal characters were attractive to me, excepting a couple notable exceptions. I wish I had been able to see their world changed more by the contact. If I were to tell the truth, I'd really like a fourth book set in these combined worlds addressing each species coming to terms with how their social systems oppress them and changing, even a little bit. I would like to see Bandra the new main character for instance. What if, once her last daughter gave birth to her second child she finally said something about her man-mate and tried to change the major flaw in Neanderthal society? Do they petition to stop influencing the gene pool like this? How does the species react to this after so long in contact with their wild, but passionate neighbors? How does our species change after so much contact with them? There is so much COMPLEX material to work with in this combined universe, but our author chose to tell a ham-fisted battle of the sexes story with a side dish of religious skepticism.
Final thoughts? I'm into it, but it could have been way better. (

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Noeshia | Oct 23, 2020 |

Huh, I'm actually satisfied by the way the major issues in the relationship between Ponter and Mary were resolved, and delighted that Mary ended up with a woman-mate, also. That was unexpected, but great. (

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thewanlorn | Feb 24, 2020 |

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Forfatter navn	Rolle	Hvilken slags forfatter	Værk?	Status
Robert J. Sawyer	—	primær forfatter	alle udgaver	beregnet
Hartwell,David G.	Redaktør	medforfatter	alle udgaver	bekræftet
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"The belief in God has often been advanced as not only the greatest, but the most complete of all the distinctions between man and the lower animals."

--Charles Darwin
The Descent of Man

And let me tell you, God is not so infinite as the Catholics assert. He is about six hundred meters in diameter, and even then is weak towards the edges.

--Karel Čapek
The Absolute at Large

Mankind was still divided into two species: The few who had "speculation" in their souls, and the many who had none, with a belt of hybrids in the middle.

--John Galsworthy

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"Mare," said Ponter Boddit, "it is my honor to introduce you to Lonwis Trob."

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In Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer introduced a character listeners 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. 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 . . . Filled to bursting with his signature speculations about alternative ways of being human, exploding our preconceptions of morality and gender, of faith and love, Sawyer's Neanderthal Parallax trilogy is a classic in the making, and here he brings it to a stunning, thought-provoking conclusion. The conclusion to the Neanderthal Parallax trilogy

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