Orphan of Creation by Roger MacBride Allen (.ePUB)
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Orphan of Creation by Roger MacBride Allen
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Overview: Anthropologists discover a remnant of ancestral genus Australopithecus; pitiful creatures enslaved by a backward African village that is shunned by its neighbors for its cruel practices. It is the greatest anthropological discovery ever made, but who will guarantee that the rest of the world will treat Thursday and her kind any better than slave-masters!?
The protagonist is a paleoanthropologist who finds an odd anecdote about imported apes in her great-great-grandfather’s account of growing up a slave in Mississippi. This discovery piques her curiosity, prompting her to make a small-scale excavation of ape bones. What she finds instead are several complete skeletons of australopithecines buried in the 1850s. The first section is about her and her colleagues assessing the implications while they try to keep the discovery a secret, interspersed with bits from the point of view of an Australopithecus kept as a slave in an isolated village. In the second and third sections, the paleontologist makes an expedition to Africa to look for living Australopithecus, ultimately resulting in contact with the Australopithecus.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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