Antediluvian

4.0⭐ I usually find Will McCarthy's books interesting, at the least. First off, he can write (always a plus, in my experience). Couple that with his superior imagination and scientific literacy and you get an original, well-above-average story. That's the case with this tale of armchair (actually ort......more

An intelligent, well written and thought provoking book that is also enjoyable and engrossing. I think it's well written, with a well crafted plot and a fleshed out cast of characters. It's not always an easy read and the pace is sometimes very slow. All in all it was a good read. Recommended! Many thank......more

Wil McCarthy has a fascinating, but improbable way of looking at the Antediluvian (trade from Baen) or pre-history era. Harv Leonel and his team have discovered that the Y chromosome is a quantum storage device for human memory and that it can be accessed using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Harv, expe......more

*copy from the publisher* Antediluvian is a standalone novel from Wil McCarthy, and I’ll say this: it’s imaginative work, and it tells a good story. You can pick it up and lose yourself in other times, other places, other people; the story is intriguing, and the characters have depth and weight. It r......more

It's good in its anthrocentric, patriarchal way. I had hoped for more imagination. I've always thought that ancestral, genetic memories explain sincere "past life" experiences better than reincarnation, so I was hoping for more than a riff on the "I was royalty" theme. Here, the protagonist is the f......more