Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 00:31:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at keithlynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Neander Tales
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

I recently read Baxter's _Manifold: Origin_ and Sawyer's _Hominids_.
Baxter and Sawyer are both in my short list of "buy on sight" authors.

I was surprised to discover that both novels featured present-day or
near future Neanderthals, and that both novels portrayed them as being
comparable to us in intelligence, and superior to us morally.

It's curious how the same ideas often appear simultaneously in novels
by different SF authors.
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