INHERITORS/GOLDIN
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780671531393 (0671531395)
Publish date: May 3rd 1984
Publisher: Pocket Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
Fiction,
Historical
I couldn't put down this book (well, e-reader, anyway :D )! the novel is about Neanderthals and the dawning new men, Homo Sapiens, their interactions. The genre is allegorical SF novel. 5 of 5!
DNFI did nothing but struggle with this. I had no idea of what was going on or who anybody was and it would take me nearly a full day to get through a single chapter.
The Inheritors is a rare attempt to portray the human race from the outside looking in: told from the point of view of a group of Neanderthals having their first, fatal, encounter with this new and dangerously clever species.As a palaeontological study this book may not be strictly accurate or even ...
I don't know what made me think a novel by the guy who wrote 'Lord of the Flies' wouldn't be depressing.'The Inheritors' is about a small tribe of Neanderthals, and their devastating encounter with a group of homo sapiens. It was hard to get into at first, because the narrator was a rather dim membe...
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