YMMV / The Neanderthal Parallax

• Creator's Pet: The Neanderthals are presented as being everything the author wants out of humanity, and anyone who disagrees with this in-story is shown to be evil. They're even better in bed than humans.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In the last book, Mary lists Bill Cosby as one of the men who isn't evil while thinking about male violence. This was before the accusations against him were well known. It's especially ironic since she's a victim of rape (in her first scene in the first book, no less), and this is a large part of her character's arc throughout the trilogy.

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