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Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge

By Mike Resnick
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Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge is one of the most celebrated novellas ever written. It not only won both the Hugo and Nebula, but also the HOMer award and the SF Chronicle Poll and was a nominee for the Locus Award and the Sturgeon Award. It was also nominated for a number of international awards, winning the Ignotus and the Universitat Polytecnica Awards in Spain,  the Prix Ozone Award in France and the Futura Award in Croatia.

In the far future, eons after the demise of Humanity and its far-flung galactic empire, a group of alien archeologists visits Earth to uncover the secret of the dead race's initial overwhelming success and its ultimate death.

Digging through layers of archeological strata at Olduvai Gorge, they discover seven unique artifacts, each related to a different era of humanity's history and each telling a unique story about humankind's strengths and weaknesses.

But are they prepared for their final discovery, which will change their worlds forever?

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Thumbs Up“i didn’t expect anything about this book. i just want some quick read atm. seeing that this book won the Nebula and Hugo award made me interested. and now i know why it won those award. a quick read indeed, i love the theme of this sci-fi book. a post-man world where aliens are excavated the remains of the now-extinct humans on Earth. these species, based on this book, dominated the galaxy for quite sometime. how weird it was that most literature would go with a plot in the reverse way: humans exploring extinct civilization.”
“This is one of the great novellas. It may be my absolutely favorite sci fi novella. This is an amazing story that swept the awards the year it came out. It has lost nothing, and is as great today as if was when it came out. A must read for sci fi fans.”

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