Hominids
- 448
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
- Hugo Award for Best Novel
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Our view
“Hominids” opens Robert J. Sawyer’s “Neanderthal Parallax” trilogy with a clever premise. On a parallel Earth, Neanderthals rather than our species became dominant, and through Ponter Boddit and Mary Vaughn, Sawyer uses the contrast to look hard at our own world: its faith, its treatment of the planet and its ideas of justice. Some readers rank it the best of the three, and it leaves them keen to read on.
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About the book
"Hominids, " the first book of the Neanderthal Parallax, is a story of parallel worlds: this one, and another in which Neanderthals become the dominant intelligent species.
Reading order · The Neanderthal Parallax
Full order & progress →- HominidsThis book
7.67.6 / 10 - Humans
–Not ranked yet - Hybrids
–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.1 across 102 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 41% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.6 comes out. A further +0.10 comes from the small bonus for major awards.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.5 | 15 | 15% |
| Hardcover | 7.2 | 87 | 85% |
Frequently asked
How long is Hominids?
It has 448 pages — longer than 51% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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