subterranean-water-hazard

Ponter experiences a sudden flooding with pure, meltwater-like subterranean water, creating a life-threatening environment.

1 chapter across 1 book

Hominids (2002)Robert J. Sawyer

Chapter 14

In this chapter, Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist, mysteriously disappears while working in a quantum-computing facility and is found unconscious after an apparent drowning incident in heavy water. At the hospital, medical professionals are stunned to discover that his anatomy is distinctly Neanderthal, highlighting the novel's central premise of parallel hominid species coexisting and interacting.