Humans by Robert J Sawyer

Humans by Robert J Sawyer

In the Hugo Award-winning Hominids, Neanderthal quantum physicist Ponter Boddit fell through an interdimensional portal into our version of reality. In this Hugo-nominated sequel, Ponter -- a character you'll never forget -- returns to our world and his growing relationship with geneticist Mary Vaughan, exploring our society with his penetrating, alien gaze. Sawyer takes on guns, religious assumptions, automobiles, and even the Big Bang in this highly entertaining tale of a (more or less) rational Outsider. The chapter at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial should be required reading for anyone who wishes to sit in the Oval Office. -- Jack McDevitt on Humans The most unusual love story you've ever read. -- Rocky Mountain News on Humans The biggest job of science fiction is to portray the Other. To help us imagine the strange and see the familiar in eerie new ways. Nobody explores this territory more boldly than Robert J. Sawyer. -- David Brin on Humans Hominids is anthropological fiction at its best. -- W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, USA Today bestselling authors of People of the Thunder Hominids belongs on the same shelf as Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. -- Starlog

Robert J. Sawyer has been called the dean of Canadian science fiction by The Ottawa Citizen.

He is one of only seven writers in history and the only Canadian to win all three of the world s top awards for best science-fiction novel of the year: the Hugo (which he won in 2003 for Hominids), the Nebula (which he won in 1995 for The Terminal Experiment), and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (which he won in 2005 for Mindscan).

In total, Rob has authored over 18 science-fiction novels and won forty-one national and international awards for his fiction, including a record-setting ten Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards ( Auroras ) and the Toronto Public Library Celebrates Reading Award, one of Canada s most significant literary honors. In 2008, he received his tenth Hugo Award nomination for his novel Rollback.

His novels have been translated into 14 languages. They are top-ten national mainstream bestsellers in Canada and have hit number one on the Locus bestsellers list.

Born in Ottawa in 1960, Rob grew up in Toronto and now lives in Mississauga (just west of Toronto), with poet Carolyn Clink, his wife of twenty-four years.

He was the first science-fiction writer to have a website, and that site now contains more than one million words of material.

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ISBN 13	9780765346759
ISBN 10	0765346753
Title	Humans
Author	Robert J Sawyer
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Tor Books
Year published	2011-05-31
Number of pages	352
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