A Place Beyond Man: The Archives of Varok - Softcover
A PLACE BEYOND MAN is a vivid creation of two alien species, disturbingly human in some ways but totally alien in their assumptions: the sensuous, amphibious ellls and the humanoid varoks, experiencing life with mindful awareness. How do twenty-first century humans react when they confront comparable intelligence residing in "their" solar system? A human biologist discovers that she is not free from human parochialism.
Author/Psychiatrist Jean Bolen has called this book "a perfect metaphor of Jungian individuation". The story of inter-species contact plays against a backdrop of Earth trying unsuccessfully to move to a steady state economy.
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Foster Buckman's review in Goodreads Apr 04, 12
It wouldn't be my type of book to pick up on a book shelf but it was utterly interesting...
We're introduced right from the beginning to the very personable main ell of the novel, Conn (from the dark watery planet Ellason)...
The friendship and romance that develops between Tandra and Conn are ...very fascinating, as are the many difficulties their relationship encounters! I really enjoyed reading this book! Cary Neeper is a very talented author. I highly recommend this novel to anyone who loves great science fiction. :)
"[A Place Beyond Man]...is an involving, well-plotted story that does justice to both the hard science underpinning its interplanetary settings and the long evolutionary perspectives typical of the old scientific romances
"...what a worthy revival it is, in both its continued timeliness and its intelligent, believable rendering of alien values and cultures.
"Its sequel, The Webs of Varok, was a long time in coming, but it's finally here
"I look forward to seeing what additional insights their alien worlds have to contribute."
Frank Kaminski for Mudcitypress.com and resilience.org
It wouldn't be my type of book to pick up on a book shelf but it was utterly interesting...
We're introduced right from the beginning to the very personable main ell of the novel, Conn (from the dark watery planet Ellason)...
The friendship and romance that develops between Tandra and Conn are ...very fascinating, as are the many difficulties their relationship encounters! I really enjoyed reading this book! Cary Neeper is a very talented author. I highly recommend this novel to anyone who loves great science fiction. :)
"[A Place Beyond Man]...is an involving, well-plotted story that does justice to both the hard science underpinning its interplanetary settings and the long evolutionary perspectives typical of the old scientific romances
"...what a worthy revival it is, in both its continued timeliness and its intelligent, believable rendering of alien values and cultures.
"Its sequel, The Webs of Varok, was a long time in coming, but it's finally here
"I look forward to seeing what additional insights their alien worlds have to contribute."
Frank Kaminski for Mudcitypress.com and resilience.org
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- PublisherIuniverse Inc
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1450289312
- ISBN 13 9781450289313
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages284
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A Place Beyond Man: The Archives of Varok
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ISBN 13: 9781450289313
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