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Ember From The Sun
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Ember From The Sun
by
Mark Canter (Goodreads Author)
PUBLISHED IN 10 LANGUAGES. In the blue ice of an arctic cave, a scientist has made an extraordinary discovery: a woman's body, frozen for 25,000 years in a near-perfect state, with pliant tissues, vessels filled with blood--and an embryo waiting to be born....
They called her Ember, the child of their heart, born to surrogate parents who refused to yield her after birth.Rai...more
They called her Ember, the child of their heart, born to surrogate parents who refused to yield her after birth.Rai...more
Published
(first published January 1st 1996)
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I'm only on page 65, so the writing could get better, but I doubt it. The story is very good and I find it interesting, but the writing is amateurish, especially when describing the character of Yute. I thought, at first, that he was a teenager by the way his lines were written and how he acted. He comes across as very very young, not a scientist at all. I assume he is scared of wolves, but to shoot a wolf his sister was feeding? There was no sense of urgency, no warning, just an unneccesary dra...more
Feb 02, 2010
Linda Branham Greenwell
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5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
fiction
First I will paste what the review says:
The story begins as Dr. Yute Nahadeh discovers a well-preserved, frozen Neanderthal woman in Alaska. As he studies the woman, he discovers that she was pregnant at her death. He decides to implant the embryo and create a Neanderthal to study firsthand. He finds a hungry, homeless teenage couple to serve as the surrogate parents. After the birth of the child, the couple decide that they cannot give her up and raise the baby girl named Ember. Neither of the...more
The story begins as Dr. Yute Nahadeh discovers a well-preserved, frozen Neanderthal woman in Alaska. As he studies the woman, he discovers that she was pregnant at her death. He decides to implant the embryo and create a Neanderthal to study firsthand. He finds a hungry, homeless teenage couple to serve as the surrogate parents. After the birth of the child, the couple decide that they cannot give her up and raise the baby girl named Ember. Neither of the...more
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Jun 04, 2011
Carolyn F.
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4 of 5 stars
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Shelves:
audiobook,
contemporary
Audiobook. Mystical. I really enjoyed this audiobook. FYI the narrator is the same one who did the voice of Pocahontas. Ember is the result of an embryo miraculously being viable in the body of a cavewoman. The scientist doesn't tell the surrogate parents but they feel such a closeness to the baby, they take her home knowing that the scientist doesn't really want anybody to know what he did. The parents are also only 16. Ember looks different, talks different and is stronger. She goes to find ou...more
Wonderfully creative story that could have been written better. Thankfully the story is creative enough that a little suffering on the writing doesn't detract from it too badly. I did finish the book and enjoyed it. Some minor changes and the book would have gone from good to great.
Eh.
I loved the premise, but didn't get into it as much as I hoped. I don't know if I would have liked it better if another writer had tackled the project???
"full of that magical, awesome marriage of science and art"
It's possible that when I re-read it I may upgrade to five stars.
It's possible that when I re-read it I may upgrade to five stars.
Listened to this book driving to San Francisco. It was amazing! Made the time just fly by.
Jan 28, 2008
nimrodiel
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5 of 5 stars
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Fantasy.. inconsistent, but entertaining, if a bit irritating at times.
This story is so fantastically utter fiction and so wonderfully beautiful!
May 07, 2013
Dromin
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Shelves:
theme-prehistoric,
genre-adventure
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I was raised in Kentucky hill country in a metropolis of 400 tobacco and hog farmers, where I belonged to the only Jewish family in the universe. In my dharma-bum youth, I hitchhiked and jumped trains across the Western States and Canada and went through jobs from pizza chef to surgical orderly, massage therapist to rock-show stagehand. After getting a journalism degree, I wrote for a few Florida...more
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