The titular characters are Homo Erectus-like subhumans who inhabit the New World instead of the native humans actually found there. The author implied that with another species of less intelligent humans around the differences in our races and cultures are not significant enough to allow people to justify slavery of other humans as long as occurred in our history. Sprecher
"Electrifying...An artfully styled narrative and painstaking attention to historical detail vivify this mesmerizing account of one of history's most remarkable rulers."
The altered natural and cultural impacts are explored.This is one of the most thought provoking books I have ever read.
This one has Christopher Columbus and company finding prehistoric ancestors of humankind in the Americas, instead of the indigenous Native Americans that exist in our reality.
Although each story stands on its own and can be enjoyed on that basis, they get increasingly sophisticated in exploring the philosophical issues involving treatment of a species that is not quite human.
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Die Polizei ist sich sicher: Er ist auch der Entführer des sechsjährigen Max, der seit drei Monaten spurlos verschwunden ist.
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Cute.What if... when Europeans arrived in the Americas, they found a land populated by a different species of human?
What hooked me again were the "cavemen" on the front cover.
Da ist es gut, dass er schon Freunde gefunden hat, die ihm im Kampf gegen die dunklen Mächte zur Seite stehen.
Any one of the stories in this anthology could become a novel in and of itself, from the exploration of the slave who at least consoles himself that he's better than a Sim, to the use of Sims in HIV and AIDS research (much to the consternation of the Sims Rights Movement).
The book is about the settling of what we call the United States, the story being told in short stories that combine to telAn alternate history with an interesting premise.
Because of their lessor hunting skills, the Americas teem with prehistoric cI started reading it. This is the premise that drives the incomparable Harry Turtledove's A Different Flesh.
A Different Flesh | This novel by the New York Times-bestselling "master of alternate history" explores an America reshaped by a twist in prehistoric evolution (Publishers Weekly).
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A Different Flesh. Thought provoking, if very weird.A silly concept, but executed quite well.
I prefer the 1988 cover (the edition I read) or the 2018 reissue cover.
Nun, vielleicht einfach deshalb, weil ich es meiner Oma als sechsjähriger Knirps genau so versprechen musste. Sprecher Die Känguru-Chroniken berichten von den Abenteuern und Wortgefechten des Duos.
Alternate history is defined by Wikipedia as “speculative fiction consisting of stories in which one or more historical events occur differently,” and I think that’s an accurate general description of the genre.
This is the premise that drives the incomparable Harry Turtledove's A Different Flesh. Be the first to ask a question about A Different Flesh Although each story stands on its own and can be enjoyed on that basis, they get increasingly sophisticated in exploring the philosophical issues involving treatment of a species that is not quite human. The Sims go from wild and free to slavery to....?I’ve read Harry Turtledove’s alternate history novels for years, and I consider him to be one of the masters of the genre – he’s certainly among the genre’s most prolific authors. What hooked me again were the "cavemen" on the front cover.
These hairy "sub-humans" have no power of speech, no chins and no foreheads.
This is not a single novel, but rather a series of short stories on a single theme.
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