meg elison the book of the unnamed midwife

Their physiology does not allow them endurance for extreme temperature, and they are considerably more fragile than their human counterparts. In contrast, Pinners cannot live away from their homeworld for extended periods of time without risking their lives. When examined in this context, the human history of violent conflict is very understandable.

Their unique physiology advantages them to endure extreme heat and cold, to survive the loss of limbs and infectious disease, and to travel to different worlds. Humans are regarded as one of the most adaptable species in the known galaxy. Although humans and hemis appear the same on the outside, there are many things that make us different. Some humans like me have the ability to tell humans from hemis just by looking.

“It’s probably related to some vestigial ability from early hominids,” she said primly, enlarging the projection of the smiling hemi kid next to the human (who didn’t look quite as happy to be there.) “Perhaps developed back when the human genus was more diverse. On the first day of bi/bi school, we learned that she was one of the special ones. But the percentage of humans who can tell is really small, like less than 10 percent of the population. We were practically a commercial for racial harmony, all of us holding hands and sharing toys, pushing one another on the gravity swings.

In school, there was this period of innocence between kindergarten and the first year of bimodal/bilingual instruction when nobody knew anybody was different. I remember when I learned that not everyone could tell. had only highlighted the Pinners in the crowd.

Meg elison the book of the unnamed midwife