I understand that these plotlines will be picked up in the sequel, but an adept author should be able to bring about at least smaller resolutions within the overarching story at the end of each book, and I don't feel like Sawyer accomplished this. One of the plotlines is simply dropped midway through the book. My only complaint about the book is that, even for the first novel in a trilogy it feels incomplete. The concept of visualizing the web was also intriguing, as was the premise that the web has some sort of underlying consciousness. I'm legally blind myself, though I do have some residual vision, so I immediately identified with protagonist Caitlin Decter, and I felt that she was a pretty believable blind character. Sawyer, ad I've come away from the novel thoroughly impressed. Sawyer's Neanderthals are sort of a hundred years later from Quest for Fire, so we end up with a more humanized take on Neanderthals, but if you're looking for fiction about Neanderthals that's accurate – well, as accurate as science fiction can be? The Hominids is what I would point to.Wake marks my first encounter with Robert J. In fact, when he was doing the research, I was an undergraduate at the Institute of Human Origins, working at Arizona State University, and I remember hearing some of the professors and the postdocs having talked to him about his research for the books. He interviewed a ton of anthropologists, spent a lot of time going through the literature. Sawyer did extensive research for his Neanderthals. 'It's set in a neutrino observatory in Canada, and it opens up a portal, and – there's Neanderthals, there's modern humans.

'It's the first book in his Neanderthal Parallax trilogy,' Pyne told us. 'A colleague of mine,' she said, 'once referred to Quest for Fire as Ron Perlman Goes Camping for Two Hours With No Dialogue.' But with the clarification of, no, what about novels, the Seven Skeletons author was glad to recommend Robert J. But when we asked Lydia Pyne which popular entertainment was the most accurate, she thought we meant movies, and she was at a loss. Because there are facts about early hominids and there are also fictions about early hominids.

Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer