Child of Time - Isaac Asimov
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Fiction - Science Fiction - ISBN: 0330322702, 0330325795

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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...
more...four-year-old Neanderthal boy is snatched from his home and hurled 40,000 years into a terrifying future.





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Neanderthals have feelings too.
Review of Child of Time - Isaac Asimov by RoseButterfly

Advantages: An interesting tale, 2 great writers
Disadvantages: possibly hard to find

...manage to grab a neanderthal child form the ice age, and transport him to a world set itn he near future. The child is named Timmie, and is assigned a nurse, Miss Fellows to take care of him while he is observed. The novel tells of the devloping emotional bond between the nurse who is a surrogate mother figure, and thechild. When Miss Fellows discovers what the corporation have planned as the culmination of their experiments with the child, she ... Read review

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28.04.2005
a book about human feelings
Review of Child of Time - Isaac Asimov by gothmum

Advantages: asimov, silverberg, what more do you want...
Disadvantages: short for the price, no aliens , no battles, no planets.

...years. It is about a neanderthal child snatched from the comfort(?) of his home into a future,of what can only be called, a comfortable prison. Of course a nanny is required. Plot here, she does not know anything about who she is to look after. It's a great story about a womans love for her charge, and the coldness and indifference of the superior scientists. A boy becomes nothing more than an expendable lab rat.. I liked it. A true asimov fan ... Read review

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02.06.2007


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