The final installment of the Aurora Award–winning trilogy “Neanderthal Parallax.”
Ponter Boddet and his beloved, the geneticist Mary Wogan, are balancing between two worlds, searching for a chance to develop their complicated relationship. They intend to use forbidden Neanderthal gene-engineering methods to create the first hybrid child, which will become a symbol of hope for uniting two different realities. They even have a chance to modify the future child’s genotype to avoid any genetic anomalies.
Meanwhile, Earth, where Mary is from, faces a threat of destroying the magnetic field, and her boss, the mysterious Jock Krieger, envies the unspoiled Neanderthal world. What consequences might arise when a person obsessively pursuing their desires gains access to the most advanced technologies?