A Different Flesh
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Plot Summary of A Different Flesh

"The first English colonists reach the North Americas, but they don't find Indians-only Pleistocene mammals and subhuman anthropoids(Homo erectus), which they call 'sims'. The moral implications of this discovery unfold for the next three hundred and fifty years, mostly for the better but not always for the best.

Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout.

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Brian R. Hughes, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of A Different Flesh

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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - alternate history
Explore/1st contact/ enviro story Yes
Plotlets: - fighting a disease/illness affecting everyone
Romance Yes
Romance plotlets: - two lovers coping with tough mission
Repressive society story Yes
Inner Struggle Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Human/magical couple? Yes

Main Character
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
Terrain - Forests
Earth setting: - 20th century - 19th century - 18th century - 17th century
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - some scientific explanation
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - descript of touching personal anatomy - impregnation/reproduction - actual description of sex - description of breasts - descript. of private male anat. - descript. of non-breast female anat.
How much dialogue? - significantly more descript than dialog

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Harry Turtledove Resident Scholar Profiles

TOP SCHOLAR:

Wayne S. Urben

SCHOLARS: Crimson Kid (CK) coorsman Brian R. Hughes Keith David Samantha S. Urben Cowboy Vitterand1944 Matt Johnson Isabel

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