This is the second book in The Neanderthal Parallax trilogy. The other two being Hominids (book 1) and Hybrid (book 3).
In this book Ponter Bonditt ( Neanderthal physicist) and Mary Vaughan (human geneticist) continue to develop their relation ship .
A permanent portal is created between their two worlds and both cultures travel to the other side to see if the grass really is greener on the other side.
Mary grapples with the confusing Neanderthal relationships while also trying to deal with her rape.
Most of the book is devoted to exploring the differences between the two cultures and Robery . Sawyer is very good at painting clear and viable differences that really make you think. This just adds to your reading pleasure.
Further investigation reveals that his world is in fact also Earth however one where Homo Sapiens died off and Neanderthal became the dominant human species. In some ways their life style is backwards to humans and in others it is more advanced and enlightened.
From the first books we have learned that in the Neanderthal world:
1) The population has been limited to 185 million
2) All the men live on the outskirts of town and all the women live in the middle
3) The women live with their woman mate and children
4) The men live with their man mate
5) Every 25 days the men go into town and visit their woman mate for 4 days
6) Conception is limited to once every 10 years thus aiding the ZPG
7) Regressive genes (violence, disease etc )have been bred out of the population
8) While they have helicopters they don't have airplanes
9) They don't use fossil fuels but rather solar power
10) They have a strong opinion about religions, because they don't have any
11) They have an implanted electronic companion that records everything they do so crime and violence is rare
This is a great start to a story arc ran through 3 volumes with each one standing on it's own although it is more entertaining to read all three in order.
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