Child of Time
Isaac Asimov & Robert Silverberg
20th Century American Fiction Asimov; Isaac - Prose & Criticism Fiction Fiction - Science Fiction General Iowa Library - Science Fiction and Fantasy Neanderthals Non-Classifiable Novel Orphans Science Science Fiction Science Fiction - General Science Fiction; American Silverberg; Robert - Prose & Criticism Time Travel _isfdb ben earth hardcover inclusion paleolithic prehistoric representations stories
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: Aug 2, 1991
Description:
Based on an Asimov short story, "The Ugly Little Boy". A children's nurse is hired as part of a scientific project aimed at bringing a living being from the past to the present. A four-year-old Neanderthal boy is snatched from his home and hurled 40,000 years into a terrifying future.
SUMMARY: Plucked out of the past and transported forty thousand years into the future, a Neanderthal child discovers that human nature has remained unchanged, in an expanded version of an original Asimov story published in 1958. 60,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo.