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ROBERT J. SAWYER
Hugo and Nebula Winner

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John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalist!

Aurora Award Finalist!

Seiun Award Finalist!

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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 of Hominids 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
• Drafts of the Opening

• 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.

  And the entirety of Chapter 18, "The Myth of the Wandering Nomad," in the 2016 book Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel (HighWater Press, 2016) is devoted to the positive discussion of Indigenous peoples in Hominids.

• 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!).

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