Humans

Volume Two of The Neanderthal Parallax

mass market paperback, 352 Seiten

Sprache: English

Am 15. September 2003 von Tor Books veröffentlicht.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-4675-9
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hat Humans von Robert J. Sawyer besprochen

Book two of a trilogy

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So, which parts of the story are in part 2. Let me think. No, that was part one, that was part three. Not all that much happening. Well, not that much apart from all the discussions of god – believing in one is good, because otherwise people wouldn’t we OK with politicians sending people to war¹ – and eugenics – great, all you need is a society without classes or poverty, and without different races to start with.

Yeah, no. I used to like it, but my thought was »Well, obviously eugenics won’t work, because we have racism and poverty« but if that is the point you want to make, you have to hammer it home mercilessly. That wasn’t done here. And a few sentences on a web page along the lines of »I don’t believe in what I write in my novels« doesn’t cut it for me.

Oh, and …

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5 Sterne

Throughout the first book and this one, I often found myself struggling to accept Mary’s thoughts and actions. She seems like a forced character who feels what she feels and does what she does just to move the plot along.
But… I did manage to overcome this by looking at her a different way. We all know people who seem to do things out of character, or with no logical reason for their actions, and Mary is no exception. Is she a weakly written character? Maybe (but I’m no expert). Is she a believable character? Well I think so, she’s just not what I expected her to be.

Overall, the themes and subject matter of this series outweigh those potential shortcomings too much for any of that to have any bearing on my enjoyment. On to book three!

Themen

  • Science Fiction - Alternative History
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Science Fiction
  • Science Fiction - Series
  • Fiction / Science Fiction / General
  • Science Fiction - General