The Humans is about an alien who is sent to earth to kill Andrew Martin, a professor at Cambridge who just discovered the proof for the Riemann hypothesis (find out more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_...). The civilisation the alien is from is developed much higher than the hum...
This is the first book I have ever read solely on the basis of stumbling across the author on Twitter and rather liking the sound of him. Matt Haig (@matthaig1 if you fancy looking him up) comes across as someone who tries to add something positive to the world, or at least to look at it in a more p...
Not as funny as Mork & Mindy, and not as scary as it should be. It was pleasant, but the character development of our visiting alien was predictable. I am giving an extra half star because this book has a mathematical theme and did reference the concept of countable and uncountable infinite sets.
Professor Andrew Martin has just solved the Riemann Hypothesis; the equation that mathematicians deemed impossible to solve. Because having the answer to this hypothesis would alter human life as we know it alarms were set off throughout the universe and the Vonnadorians quickly sent a “hit-alien” ...
In The Humans, Mr. Haig uses Andrew Martin to show human arrogance towards what we love to consider lower forms of life. Except, in The Humans, it is the humans themselves who are the lower life forms. For in Andrew’s world, humans are little more than dogs, with mild intelligence and laughable tech...
Premise: A socially awkward alien lands Earthside, naked on a Cambridge street…And for a while, as Matt Haig builds from this premise, it’s funny! The Humans begins quite wonderfully with the arrival of an alien who can barely disguise his contempt towards humans and believes clothing is optional. T...
While reading The Humans, I'm sure I'm not the only one who was reminded of the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun, and at one point, of the ST:TNG episode Encounter at Farpoint. There's a bit of The Doctor in our alien protagonist as well. But don't be fooled into thinking this novel is a knoc...
Blogged at River City Reading:Matt Haig's new novel The Humans is narrated by an alien sent to inhabit the body of a professor in order to prevent him from sharing his world-altering mathematical discovery with those around him. What seems like a simple task becomes increasingly difficult as the nar...
Some say The Humans is “just” about an alien. Well, yes, this is true. But it’s more than this. It’s also about finding the humanity in ourselves. This book. THIS BOOK, you guys. I can’t speak highly enough of it. There’s always that one book you pick up and you just know you’re going to like it...
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