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Fire Wolf (Tekval Fitan Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Pearson Moore (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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No one understood the Vision, least of all Lishi, who dreamed the terror of two wolves. But on the morning of the Great Mammoth Hunt, two real, flesh-and-blood wolves crossed Lishi's path, snarling at her with deadly intent. It was no dream. This meeting with vicious fanged creatures began a chain of events that would change Lishi's life, and all of Neandertal culture, setting a new course for humankind.

Fire Wolf is the story of humanity's greatest achievement, the single act that led to agriculture, the first cities, the first words chiseled into stone. Fire Wolf offers a compelling picture of the way life must have been for the first humans, living every day at the precarious edge between survival and extinction. This is a living, breathing novel, pulsing with conflict between rival factions within Neandertal society, with clashing dreams and fears and destinies, and all of it playing out against the looming threat of the invading Others: The Bear People, whom the Tasfit call the 'Half-Faced Men'--the people we know as Homo sapiens sapiens: Modern Humans.

Based on the latest research in human evolution, including thousands of primary, peer-reviewed articles in the major archeology, paleontology, and paleoanthropology journals, with guidance and input from world leaders in the study of early Human and Neandertal culture, Fire Wolf brings the Neandertal world to life in vivid scenes of hunting and death, violence and defeat, wonder and excitement, destiny and dream. You will find yourself shocked at the complexity of social interaction. You will succumb to cherished characters' hopes and desires, you will feel sadness as innocents suffer desolation and loss.

This is a story you will never forget, for it is our story, the first story, the tale of our true selves as living, breathing, desiring, hope-filled human beings. Bring the wolves!

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00ZCNGK90
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (June 9, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 9, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1785 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 426 pages

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Pearson Moore is the author of "Deneb," the most exciting science fiction epic of the decade. "Deneb" follows dozens of memorable characters thrown into a hostile, alien environment as they scramble to understand the deeply-layered mysteries that control their lives. As they dig into ancient visions and secrets, they discover a web of conspiracies and evil intentions that span 45,000 years of history and call into question the most basic of assumptions about human will, desire, and destiny. With profound allusions to literature old and new, "Deneb" is a story that will stay with readers for years to come.

Moore is the bestselling author of "LOST Humanity," for many years the #1 bestselling companion book to the television series LOST, written in the style that has earned him tens of thousands of followers worldwide. As well as authoring several LOST-related volumes, including "LOST Identity," Pearson has written well-received companion books for both Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad.

With over 100 essays on LOST, read at over 40,000 websites around the world, Moore is recognized as a leading authority on the groundbreaking television series. "LOST Humanity" was the #1 Bestseller in its class for 14 weeks in 2011 and several weeks in 2012. His second book on LOST, "LOST Identity," includes illustrations by renowned LOST artist ArtGUS, and concentrates on the unique characters of LOST. Moore edited the highly regarded "LOST Thought" and "LOST Thought University Edition," now required reading in many college film and drama courses.

Moore has been Featured Writer at SL-Lost.com, the Dark UFO website, Westeros.org, and WinterIsComing.com. In addition to "Game of Thrones Season One Essays" and "Game of Thrones Season Two Essays," he is author of the "Thrones Questions and Comments" series of Game of Thrones books which analyze the television series in the rich, insightful essay format that has become his hallmark.

Pearson Moore writes in several genres, including historical fiction, science fiction, and current events non-fiction. His first novel, "Cartier's Ring," was published in April, 2011. "Cartier's Ring" is the story of the founding of Canada in 1608 as seen from the Aboriginal perspective. Moore has also written "Intolerable Loyalty," a novel set in Québec during the American Revolutionary War, and "Trinity," a science fiction novel treating the emergence of a genetically unique population and its social and political implications.

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An interesting read .

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2015

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A little hard to follow with having to learn strange words . But very interesting and different look at early man .

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illustrating how mankind always has some that hunger for power and cannot accept learning how things can be done better. The rea

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Fire Wolf is a fascinating study of Neanderthal mankind told through the stories of the clans of that time of our history. We are introduced to many characters, but a few standout and lead the story forward. Lishi is the young Seer who has a connection to wolves and has special visions that will lead her to her and her clan's destiny with the Flatheads (homo sapiens sapiens) . Along this path she is thwarted by her antagonist, Girrt, illustrating how mankind always has some that hunger for power and cannot accept learning how things can be done better. The reader is immersed in the culture and rituals of the Neanderthal clans and it is quite an interesting journey. I enjoyed the book very much and can't wait to read the next book of this saga.

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Preferred the anthropology!

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2015

Fire Wolf by Pearson Moore is a very interesting tale of Neanderthal humanoids related through a combination of the author’s imagination and academic knowledge. The reader is introduced to Lishi, a girl Seer, who is a member of the Fire Wolf clan, one of many more clans. There is then a succession of many more characters, all with names difficult to attach to either males or females, and with strange terms also difficult to remember by their unfamiliar spelling etc: such as Tosghit, Kammas, Melpok, Girrt and Blegstuk. I found the mixture of the very unfamiliar language construction, strange names and almost staccato-like delivery of various short scenes within the clan, quite disconcerting and hard to accept as a “smooth” introduction to the book.

After about twenty pages or so I decided to glance through the Trogmath Tasfit (Songs) the Poglobt (Glossary) and the anthropology of Fire Wolf at the back of the book to try and get a background “feel” for the story. But this section occupies around a third of the book and took a lot of time even to skim never mind absorb. I’m not sure whether the combination of the simplistic, but hard to grasp, dialogue and the large (in this context) volume of academic information works well enough to make this book accessible to many busy readers. I approached this intriguing prehistoric novel with a real interest in the subject but found my interest rapidly evaporated as the story was too confusing from the beginning, and I did not have time to go through the information in the depth needed to accept the events as they unfolded.

I persisted with reading the book and gradually gathered the gist of the story, though I hesitate to call it a novel in the usual sense, and have to say that, although I found the last couple of chapters exciting and very well written, overall I did not particularly enjoy the experience. Often it was like having a large jigsaw to complete without referring to the picture on the box lid because I could not spare the time. In the end I found that I was far more interested in the anthropology of Fire Wolf and the Neanderthals than the narrative or dialogue of the novel. Not the author’s intention I suspect – or maybe it’s just me!
I received a free copy of this book in return for my honest and non-reciprocal review.

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Elaborate Saga of Neanderthal Times

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2015

Novel of Mousterian Neanderthal times. Somewhere in E Europe, the small tribes of Neanderthals live by hunting. Young Lishi becomes a woman and a prophet in one clan; in another, the young hunter Girrt becomes a leader, but his forbidden love for a sister and his arrogance set up destructive forces. Lishi emerges as the focal heroine. Her obscure visions and force of character make her a “prophet” in spite of youth and inexperience. Toward the end of the story, Lishi encounters the “Half-Faced People” the dark skinned, browless modern Homo sapiens, setting up a plot for the next book in a planned long series.
Moore is a better-than-average writer with a definite and imaginative vision of his Neanderthals, backed by extensive research. There is a lengthy illustrated post-script where Moore explains the “Anthropology of Fire Wolf,” with a bibliography of scholarly publications. Moore’s imaginative reconstruction of Neanderthal life is interesting and generally well done, though many, including myself, will disagree with parts of it. For one thing, the Neanderthals are culturally and personally quite complex. There is some artifactual evidence to suggest more intellectual and symbolic life than past anthropology credited them with, but perhaps not as much as in this story. Moore makes the point (somewhat aggressively at times) that Neanderthals had short life spans with rapid development, social adulthood and physical and sexual maturity at 10 or 12 years of age for instance. This is hard to reconcile with an elaborate social culture of rituals and oral literature that must be learned. Of course Neanderthals with more modern minds make more interesting characters in fiction. Beyond specific quibbles, Moore does what the more sophisticated prehistoric fictions should do, working out archaeological problems in a way that both conforms to the evidence, and makes a good story.
Moore himself has an elaborate mind. His Neanderthals live in a social world of rigidly constructed status and positions: chief hunter, fire tender, stone worker, and the like. Position around the fire is important, as is number symbolism. Seven (often euphemized as “six and one”) is a taboo number – there can never be 7 around a fire, or in a band, because there are 6 defined positions around a fire. This creates problems for characters in the story, for instance a mother about to give birth to a child who would be the 7th member of a small clan, or the wolves interacting with Lishi, which have 7 pups, “Seven wolves!” being a most severe curse. Moore has also constructed a Neanderthal language and uses his vocabulary constantly. This is sometimes annoying when it slows the reader who is trying to figure out what is going on, or is obsessively used for chapter numbers and so on. At other times the words ‘work’ and stick in your mind – I will never be able to look at a Levallois flake again without remembering that he calls them ‘benegot’ and makes them the most important physical and symbolic technology for his folk. He perhaps exaggerates the difficulty of making them, and their prehistoric importance, but in ways useful for his story, here setting up the symbolic and social specialization of the Stone Master. There is a lengthy glossary at the end of the book.
Moore’s Neanderthals also have an extensive culture of oral poetry. They quote it a lot in the story, and he provides more complete “Trogmath Tasfit: Songs of the Tasfit People” at the end. This kind of thing worked for Tolkien, though even he got tiresome at times. Moore is not quite as good a poet, and I would have dialed the poetry back quite a bit.
Overall, I enjoyed the novel. It took a while to get into Moore’s elaborate world, keeping track of multiple story lines and many characters, with made-up vocabulary to boot, but ultimately I found them compelling enough to remember. Perhaps those brought up on Lost and Myst and other deeply elaborated fictional worlds will be more quickly at home.

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