A Different Flesh, by Harry Turtledove
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A Different Flesh, by Harry Turtledove
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In this classic work of alternate history, acclaimed Hugo Award–winning author Harry Turtledove explores a different America in which a primitive race of Neanderthals are enslaved by Homo sapiens from across the ocean What if mankind’s “missing link,” the apelike Homo erectus, had survived to dominate a North American continent where woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers still prowled, while the more advanced Homo sapiens built their civilizations elsewhere? Now imagine that the Europeans arriving in the New World had chanced on these primitive creatures and seized the opportunity to establish a hierarchy in which the sapiens were masters and the “sims” were their slaves. This is the premise that drives the incomparable Harry Turtledove’s A Different Flesh. The acclaimed Hugo Award winner creates an alternate America that spans three hundred years of invented history. From the Jamestown colonists’ desperate hunt for a human infant kidnapped by a local sim tribe, to a late-eighteenth-century contest between a newfangled steam-engine train and the popular hairy-elephant-pulled model, to the sim-rights activists’ daring 1988 rescue of an unfortunate biped named Matt who’s being used for animal experimentation, Turtledove turns our world inside out in a remarkable science fiction masterwork that explores what it truly means to be human.
A Different Flesh, by Harry Turtledove- Amazon Sales Rank: #92322 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-06-09
- Released on: 2015-06-09
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From Publishers Weekly Turtledove specializes in carefully researched alternate histories involving the Roman and Byzantine empires. This time, though, he applies that expertise to a more striking premise. What if homo erectus (called "sims" here) had lived on in America while homo sapiens elsewhere developed into the European civilization we know? The sims, a living missing link of limited intelligence and half-human, half-simian appearance, challenge traditional ideas of humanity's special, God-given place in the world. With an eye for historical turning points, Turtledove develops his thesis through vignettes from 1610 to 1988. The later, longer chapters become increasingly involving and intricate as the issues grow more complex, from slavery to (all but human) guinea pigs for scientific research. One of the best entries in the "Isaac Asimov Presents" series. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal In seven stories the author of Agent of Byzantium explores a world in which homo erectus survives alongside humankind. Whether recounting the Jamestown colonists' first encounter with "sims," describing a race between a steam-powered locomotive and a mammoth-drawn wagon, or depicting the "simian" rights movement of the 1980s, Turtledove's gift for historical speculation is always provocative. JCCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful. I just finished reading an unfinished book By A. Bresette Intrigued with the alternate history scene and learning that Harry Turtledove is the "grandmaster" of it, I read "A Different Flesh" with high hopes of inspiration & imagination. Boy, was I let down.The idea of the book is great. Instead of finding the Indians, the early explorers find "sims"...a shorter way of saying Neanderthal caveman. The book goes through several short stories with very likeable characters and intriguing plot lines.However, the plot goes from the 1600s to the 1800s at a good pace and then all of a sudden jumps to 1988 and then that's the end. I feel that Turtledove only had to write x amount of words for the publisher and that's exactly where he stopped.What about all the years between the 1800s and 1988?Why not explore future years past 1988? I realize that would have been predicting for the author, but that is the fun of science fiction.The ending of the book did not wrap anything up...the sims go to either medical research or reservations. And?!? Then what?!? Turtledove could have easily turned this into a 400-500 page epic novel and connected many loose ends while stabbing at greater philosophical, political, religious and social issues.Overall, a let down at the end after a promising start.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Great premise, no follow-up By Joel Bass I was intrigued with the premise of the book long before I located a copy. Reading it, I was disappointed to find that there wasn't much more to it than that. It's written as a series of vignettes, starting with early American colonists encountering the Sims, and continuing forward through time to the present day, with Sims being used as medical test-subjects. I liked that approach at first, but now I'm wondering if a novel would have worked better. None of the characters are very well fleshed out (excuse the pun), and the alternate-reality world of the sims seems disappointingly similar to our own. I'd love to see a different writer work from the same starting point - the results could be fascinating.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Far and away Turtledove's best By Jim Palmer Harry Turtledove is my guilty pleasure. His multivolume series ("Elabon/Gerin the Fox," "The Darkness," "Worldwar/Colonization," "Scepter of Mercy," "Videssos," etc., etc., etc.) are cheap, cheerful, and easy to consume by the pound. They're like Chicken McNuggets--churned out by the gazillion, kinda tasty, and they always leave you feeling slightly nauseated. Count on one one-dimensional character saying something dry to another one-dimensional character, and the other doing a double-take as he realizes he's being twitted, on damn near every page. It gets irritating.What makes it so irritating is that Turtledove is better than this, and "A Different Flesh" is proof. Set in a world where the forerunners of Native Americans never made it across the Bering Strait land-bridge, leaving North America populated by Homo Sapiens' close relations, Homo Erectus, and a host of other Pleistocene beasties, "A Different Flesh" traces the history of the relationship between H. Sapiens and H. Erectus over the course of seven stories covering four centuries, from the perspectives of colonial settlers, fur trappers, antebellum Southern lawyers and slaves, and, cleverly, student activists.The standout, "And Now To Bed,"is the account of Samuel Pepys (Turtledove does an uncannily good Pepys, by the way) grappling with the questions the existence of these creatures raises. Faced with the existence of creatures clearly related to us, but just as clearly not quite us, humanity is forced to confront the concept of evolution nearly two centuries before Darwin. As a result, the scientific revolution occurs a quite a bit earlier in this continuum.But H. Sapiens is no more pleasant a creature in the world of "A Different Flesh" than he is in ours, and the book makes for painful reading as the "sims," as H. Erectus is referred to throughout, are subjected to being hunted, servitude, distaste, disgust, and eventually medical testing."A Different Flesh" is thorough, challenging, thoughtful, and smartly-written, and ranks up there with "Agent of Byzantium" as one of Turtledove's best. It's not for nothing he's considered the master of alternate history. And I wish he'd do more in this vein, and leave the cutesy stuff to less talented hacks.
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