Best of What I Read in 2003 Part 2
Discover the best books read in 2003, part 2—a curated list of standout fiction featuring Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer, A Door Into Ocean, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, and more unforgettable 2003 reads.
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
Set in the period between the world wars, this novel tells of two sisters, their trials, and their survival.
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Hominids
by Robert J. Sawyer
In a parallel world in which Neanderthals, rather than homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligent species, a dangerous scientific experiment traps a Neanderthal physicist on Earth.
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A Door Into Ocean
by Joan Slonczewski
The Sharers of Shora are a nation of women on a distant moon in the far future who are pacifists, who are highly advanced in biological sciences, and who reproduce by parthenogenesis-- because there are no males. Conflict erupts when a neighboring civilization decides to develop their ocean world and sends in an army.
