The New York City launching of Robert Scheige’s The High Ones, one of the most innovative novels in recent memory. The book is a historical fiction about Neanderthals and their first contact with anatomically-modern humans. It is set 45,000 years ago in a forgotten world unrecognizable from our own, and is based on years of Rob’s research into Neanderthals and their way of life. The plot follows Falon and Una, two adolescent Neanderthals and their struggles to come to grips with threats from all sides—internecine political intrigue, humans encroaching on their territory, and the harrowing Ice Age environment itself.
The author will be presented by literary critic Andrea O’Reilly Herrera, from the CCCNY Literature Program, who will delve into the author’s groundbreaking research, his Cuban-American background, and the creative thrust of his writing in his trajectory as a novelist.
The presentation will be followed by a live Q&A via Zoom with the audience.
This literary presentation is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature.
DUE TO THE COVID PANDEMIC, THIS EVENT WILL BE STREAMED THROUGH OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL.
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General Admission: FREE
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The High Ones is Robert Scheige’s second book, following a very promising literary debut with his novella Benjamin, published in 2015. In his professional life, Rob designs risk management and insurance programs for spacecraft, rockets, on-orbit robotics and satellite fleets. He is an active member of the space industry, serving as a featured speaker at industry conferences, on the Board of Directors of space industry organizations, and teaching classes at the International Space University (ISU). Rob comes from a Cuban/Jewish background, and his entire maternal family is from Havana. Originally from Belarus and Turkey, they resided in Cuba for multiple generations, until emigrating to the US to escape the Castro regime. Rob is in the final stages of editing his third book, The Ubiquitous They, a science fiction thriller set simultaneously in modern-day and post-apocalyptic America.
Andrea O’Reilly Herrera is Professor of Literature
and Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of
Colorado at Colorado Springs. In addition to being
published poet and literary critic, she is the
author of a number of critical works, including
ReMembering Cuba: Legacy of a Diaspora, the
novel The Pearl of the Antilles, the edited collection
of essays Cuba: Idea of a Nation Displaced, and
the monograph Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora:
Setting the Tent Against the House.
This event is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council
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