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I also found this book at Borderlands on Oct 25 along with "Green Glass Sea" - an autographed copy of the 2nd edition of Pat's first novel!
I think I had never read this before - it's very interesting in that she wrote the book in 1982 (on a typewriter as she points out in the intro) and then went back into the story in 2002 to "update her future" - adding things like cell phones and such that are now prevalent but were pretty uncommon or not invented in 1982.
It's an interesting meta-time machine right there - the character of the Neanderthal boy in the book is brought forward into an utopian world created by a scientist (reminded me a bit of the Jurassic Park island) and then the 2002 version of Pat goes and reframes the future to fit the new future.
(She compared this a bit to trying to fix just one thing in a kitchen - you end up wanting to redo the whole thing).
I liked the book and Pat's ability to put us in these different worlds and minds, even in the 27-year-old "promising young writer" version of herself, as she put it.
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