Place Beyond Man: The Archives of Varok (2011)

Place Beyond Man:

The Archives of Varok

By Cary Neeper

Published by iUniverse Incorporated

Copyright 2011

Genre: Science Fiction

Physical Description: Trade Paperback, 284 Pages

Summary: A PLACE BEYOND MAN is a vivid creation of two alien species, disturbingly human in some ways but totally alien in their assumptions: the sensuous, amphibious ellls and the humanoid varoks, experiencing life with mindful awareness. How do twenty-first century humans react when they confront comparable intelligence residing in "their" solar system? A human biologist discovers that she is not free from human parochialism.Author/Psychiatrist Jean Bolen has called this book "a perfect metaphor of Jungian individuation". The story of inter-species contact plays against a backdrop of Earth trying unsuccessfully to move to a steady state economy.