The novel is a quietly told but elegantly unrelenting indictment of Homo sapiens's lethal tenure as rulers of the planet, conveyed by a melancholy, Telepathic, didactic great ape (see Apes as Human) who attempts to teach the human protagonist what must be done: you must (he insists) change your lives, must attempt to live in harmony with the planet: or you will all die. (1935-2018) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with Dreamer ( 1988), which reads initially as a dark Fantasy, but whose protagonist is in fact a victim of Dream Hacking he came to wide notice with Ishmael ( 1992), which won the first and only Turner Tomorrow Award of $500,000, and was filmed as Instinct ( 1999) directed by Jon Turteltaub it also became the first volume of the short Ishmael sequence, which continued with My Ishmael ( 1997).
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