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4/5 Audible | 4/5 Goodreads Originally published October 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Awards Hugo Award for Best Novella, Nebula Award for Best Novella Similar Mike Resnick books, Hugo Award for Best Novella winners, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge is a 1994 novella by science fiction author Mike Resnick. It won the 1994 Nebula Award for Best Novella and the 1995 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
The story concerns an archaeological expedition sent to Earth after humanity's alleged extinction. The alien archaeologists sent there study humanity's rise and fall in the legendary home of its emergence in East Africa. In the course of the story the aliens learn about the cruelty and glory of human history. They also discover a surprise.
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