Human Species

I've just started taking a class on Coursera, 'A brief history of humankind'. The first lecture was very interesting and I learned that the multiple species of humans--homo erectus, homo neanderthalensis, homo floresiensis and so on--were not simply links in a chain leading to us, homo sapiens. All these species of humans lived at the …

The Adjacent, by Christopher Priest

Yes, it's another Priest book. I can't seem to stop reading them. This one features a desolate future plagued by terrorism and war. Our protagonist, Tarent, is a photographer who's wife is killed by a new kind of weapon that obliterates anything within the area of an equilateral triangle shaped explosion. Upon returning home to London …