![]() ![]() ![]() The fun starts immediately: while the alien can absorb vast amounts of theoretical knowledge about humans, their illogical customs are harder to learn. The Humans was warmhearted, sharply observed and often laugh-out-loud funny, funny enough to forgive Haig’s alien his regrettable fondness for fortune-cookie philosophy. Vonnadorians believe that this holds the key to space travel, so the narrator's job is to exterminate Martin and anyone to whom he has divulged his discovery.Īt the beginning, Martin has been killed, and the alien is inhabiting his body. A professor of maths at Cambridge University, Andrew Martin, has solved the Riemann hypothesis, a real mathematical conundrum involving prime numbers. So far, so Mr Spock, but the interest comes from the narrator's mission. ![]() The narrator comes from the planet Vonnadoria, where life is based around maths, logic and rationality, with no messy emotions to clutter up the immortal existence. Matt Haig's new novel, his fifth for adults, is a wryly humorous look at the human condition as seen by an alien. ![]()
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