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4.0 out of 5 stars
A speedy and intellectual ride,
By It has substance: taking the perspective of an American anthropologist of modest reputation who encounters a extraterrestrial living among the Yaqui Indians he studies just over the border in Mexico. Once over his disbelief, he examines the situation like an anthropologist rather than a mere mortal. His narrative has the arch tone of someone using humor to bear up under the constant pain and other crippling effects of a car wreck. He's not a physical hero. He's an intellectual one. And the author expects the same from the reader. The first chapter contains unexplained gaps which the reader is forced to fill-in. I usually give up on those stories if it's beyond my abilities, but this story intrigued me and before long the storytelling filled out and moved along. Typical with scifi, this is skimpy on characterization, but there are anthropological and linguistic tidbits, some nifty scifi concepts, and a mystery that needs to be tied up at the end. Which came awfully soon for a slow reader like me.
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