So I'm writing my first real novel. I've come up with a premise that I'm wildly enthusiastic about. My fingers are on fire. I've written 60,000 words so far in 2 months and I've revised, what I've got thus far, more times than I can count. I'm having a blast, regardless of where it goes. However...
I have no idea whether the concept is interesting to anyone but myself. So I need some opinions.
The novel is called Sapiens and I'm squaring it up to fit not-so-neatly into the "Mainstream/Literary" genre. I'm quite adamant that Sapiens not be a work of science fiction. Nothing in Sapiens is beyond our current technology. So here is a basic, basic synopsis: the protagonist, Adam, is a Neanderthal cloned from the DNA of a 40,000 year old fossil. He is carried by a human surrogate until his birth and is raised from infancy by a host of scientists. At its roots, it is an exploration of the human condition through the eyes and mind of a non-human, raised in a world where his species no longer exists. He has vivid intellect that is wildly different than our own.
What do you think?
I have no idea whether the concept is interesting to anyone but myself. So I need some opinions.
The novel is called Sapiens and I'm squaring it up to fit not-so-neatly into the "Mainstream/Literary" genre. I'm quite adamant that Sapiens not be a work of science fiction. Nothing in Sapiens is beyond our current technology. So here is a basic, basic synopsis: the protagonist, Adam, is a Neanderthal cloned from the DNA of a 40,000 year old fossil. He is carried by a human surrogate until his birth and is raised from infancy by a host of scientists. At its roots, it is an exploration of the human condition through the eyes and mind of a non-human, raised in a world where his species no longer exists. He has vivid intellect that is wildly different than our own.
What do you think?
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