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The Savage Humanists

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"Science Fiction with a Bite "

What if we were modified neurologically so we could only tell the truth? What if aliens beamed us proof that God didn't exist? What if the sideshow freak you're seeing is really a visiting alien? What if a teleportation accident created a duplicate you?

Meet the Savage Humanists: the hottest science-fiction writers working today. Th

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Paperback, 302 pages
Published August 15th 2008 by Fitzhenry & Whiteside
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S.
S. rated it 3 of 5 stars
The introduction was quite interesting. The stories made a case supporting Kelleghan's intro--as they should. Thought-provoking read. (Okay, so I'm not good at writing reviews. I liked the book--the stories--even though I didn't agree with them all or enjoy them all. A collection leaves room for other ideas to fall into the cracks.)
Terry
Terry rated it 3 of 5 stars
The Savage Humanists is an collection of science fiction short stories. The focus of this anthology is stories that use science fiction to comment and satirized the human condition. As with and collection of short stories there some good stories and there are some bad stories. For the most part this collection achieved it goals making you think about what it is to be human. Almost every story story had me thinking about the subject the author writing about. Some stories really didn't intere...more
Scotchneat
An interesting collection of stories, even if the intro was a bit academic.

Some big names are collected here, and this is the home of the very first Robert Sawyer story I've ever loved!

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