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...many ways both writers' books have more in common with a science-fiction view of the human future than with any rational interpretation of our species' past. Mad scientists were perhaps obligatory, but who would have thought that both Neanderthals and australopiths communicated using not language (fair enough) but esp? And in both novels, two sets of primitives, good and bad, battle it out; younger researchers meet their former professors under bizarre circumstances; sexual tension breaks out between scientists and primitive hominids; and fieldworkers become the innocent pawns of dark political and military maneuverings...
...kidnapped by aliens, taken aboard spacecraft, subjected to humiliating experiments and returned to Earth, stupefied but usually unharmed. This exercise in virtual unreality was conducted, apparently without embarrassment, by The Other Side, a daily, hourlong nbc talk show that takes what it calls "an objective look at psychic phenomena, esp, ghosts, alternative healing and more...
EDGAR MITCHELL said his experiences in space provoked a "blissful alteration of consciousness." Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Sausalito, California, which pursues such topics as ESP and the mind. On a more earthly plane, in 1984 he was the target of a paternity suit by a former Playboy bunny...
...principles of quantum mechanics and anticipated Darwin's theories of evolution. Furthermore, all Egyptians were black, and their abundance of the dark skin pigment, melanin, not only made them more humane and superior to lighter-skinned people in body and mind but also provided such paranormal powers as ESP and psychokinesis...
...anyway, we remember you: Zoltar, the psionic half-gnome cleric. How'd we find that out? We cast an ESP spell, of course...