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Ugly Little Boy by (of course)
Isaac Asimov.
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This expanded version of the late Asimov's classic 1958 tale is a collaborative effort that surpasses the original. There are no plot surprises; the authors have retained the basic story of an alien four-year-old child who is kidnapped from his time zone and brought into a future world. Yet this is a fresh and satisfying version, primarily because the characters have been made richer, the depiction of 21st-century society rounded out and the history of the Neanderthal tribe from which the eponymous boy was abducted more fully given. When the woebegone waif, now named Timmie, was snatched from his epoch, he was brought into a pool of no-time, which exists coincident with the present. Since Timmie is condemned to living within that pool forever, his presence raises moral questions: Is it abusive to leave him alone in this limbo for eternity? Would it be equally cruel to send him back to the Ice Age? Asimov ( Foundation ) and Silverberg ( Lord Valentine's Castle ) explore these issues in an intriguing story supported by seamless writing.
I believe I have it ... somewhere ... (looks at boxes of science fiction books stacked in corner of apt ...)
(1) Will we allow this species to coexist with us?
(2) How will we treat this race?
(3) Will we give them any room to grow?
(4) Am I going to start seeing fundies holding signs that say "God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Ape"?
Much more likely than time transport is to actually create a genetic clone neander(DNA)\chimp(mtDNA\mom) ... but even that is science fiction so far.
How will our cousins be treated if they learn to make fire?
No better than our brothers in Darfur eh?
Provided of course that humans still exist ...
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