I would regard the central premise as the existence of an aquatic hominid species, interfertile with humans, and both the alternate history and the human-but-alien perspectives as being consequences arising from that premise. And I'd have liked to see a little more evidence that Whitfield had thought long and hard about the biology (especially the evolutionary biology).
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Date: 2010-01-10 12:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-10 02:27 pm (UTC)