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Roger MacBride Allen

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Orphan of Creation
Year 1988
Publisher Orbit Books
ISBN 0708849598
 

 

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Humanity's past is in collision with the 21st century ...

On the day after tomorrow, on a backwoods farm in Mississippi, a paleontologist unearths the bones of a creature that could never have lived in that time or place.  The incredible find brings its discoverers to the deepest forests of Western Africa, and face to face with a miracle older than Man.

 

 

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Orphan of Creation is extremely good: paleoanthropologically accurate, but also dead-on in its human psychology.  More: it's one of those books that happens to be packaged as science fiction that could be read, and thoroughly enjoyed, by any thoughtful reader.  Its soaring humanity, fascinating look at the concept of slavery (through the distorting lens of a group of African-American slaves having actually burried australopithecines who had been forced to work alongside them in the fields), and finely detailed (and completely believable) African-American female protagonist would make it a natural choice for Oprah. But it also should satisfy anyone who IS a science-fiction reader. It certainly satisfied this lifelong fan. I've written my own paleoanthropologically themed SF (HOMINIDS, from Tor Books), and deliberately waited until I'd finished before I started Allen's book, so as not to be influenced by it. Now that I have read it, it impressed the heck out of me.
Robert J Sawyer
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Project Mercury Astronauts

 

 

Credit: NASA

Looking Back: The Mercury 7
NASA introduced the Project Mercury Astronauts to the world on April 9, 1959, only six months after the agency was established. Known as the Mercury 7 or Original 7, they are: front row, left to right, Walter H. "Wally" Schirra, Jr., Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and Scott Carpenter; back row, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, and L. Gordon Cooper.

NASA Image of the day archive

 

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