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Title: Orphan of Creation by Roger MacBride Allen ISBN: 0-9671783-3-9 Publisher: FoxAcre Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book, now back in print
Comment: I finished reading this book a few days ago, and find myself constantly bringing it up in conversation with my wife and other people. It's extremely good: paleoanthropologically accurate, but also dead-on in its human psychology. More: it's one of those books that happens to be packaged as science fiction that could be read, and thoroughly enjoyed, by any thoughtful reader. Indeed, I used to say that no SF book would ever have a chance of being an Oprah's Book Club pick, but this one just might. Its soaring humanity, fascinating look at the concept of slavery (through the distorting lens of a group of African-American slaves having actually burried australopithecines who had been forced to work alongside them in the fields), and finely detailed (and completely believable) African-American female protagonist would make it a natural choice for Oprah. But it also should satisfy anyone who IS a science-fiction reader. It certainly satisfied this lifelong fan. I've written my own paleoanthropologically themed SF (HOMINIDS, from Tor Books), and deliberately waited until I'd finished before I started Allen's book, so as not to be influenced by it. Now that I have read it, it impressed the heck out of me. Five stars.
Rating: 5
Summary: A keeper
Comment: The year this book came out, my friends passed it around until the copies we had were tattered. We all thought Allen deserved to win the Campbell award for best new writer. I still have a "circulation" copy for others to read because it's so good.
The basic story line takes you from Africa to the Smithsonian Institue in Washington, DC, then to a startling discovery in the Southern States (remains of prehistoric man are found that only date back to the 1800's). The main character is a black woman, who's point of view is so convincing, I initially thought Allen was a pseudonym for a woman. She's not only dealing with an anthropological mystery, but also with everyday life and marital problems.
The anthropology and basic science presented in the story helps move the plot along, rather than interfering. In fact, by the end of the book, I found myself believing the events depicted really could happen!
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Title: The Shores of Tomorrow by ROGER MACBRIDE ALLEN ISBN: 0553583654 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Killing of Worlds : Book Two of Succession by Scott Westerfeld ISBN: 0765308509 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Golden Age by John C. Wright ISBN: 0812579844 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Ilium by Dan Simmons ISBN: 0380978938 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Heirs of Earth by Sean Williams, Shane Dix ISBN: 0441011268 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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