At one level, this is a well-plotted, unusually (for this author) emotionally-involving piece of conventional fiction; at another, it is radically meta-fictional, tackling head-on the gap of human incomprehension.
In a recent New Yorker article on the late Stephen Jay Gould, biologist H. Allen Orr describes the difficulty that paleontologists have with the sparse fossil record: "Imagine trying to reconstruct Western history from two snapshots, one of Pontius Pilate and the other of Evel Knievel."…
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