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Hominids [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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Robert Sawyer's last four SF novels have all been nominated for the Hugo Award and the Nebula(R) Award. Those very different books had only their strengths in common: imaginative originality, unique scientific extrapolation, and great stories. Hominids, the first book of the Neanderthal Parallax, is a story of parallel worlds, ours, and another in which neanderthals, not homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligent species. In that world, neanderthal civilization has reached heights of culture ... more info>> 2002 Nebula Award(R) Preliminary Ballot Nominee, Hugo Award Winner
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Star Light, Star Bright [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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Adult pioneers leaving the interior of a Dyson sphere to establish a colony on its outer surface see nothing but blackness above. But their children, born outside the sphere, claim they can see something else in the heavens... 2000
Words: 4677 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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The Shoulders of Giants [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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After 1200 years of travel, the sleeper ship Pioneer Spirit finally arrives at Tau Ceti ... only to find that the world they intended to colonize is already inhabited. 2000 Aurora Award Nominee
Words: 5668 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
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Relativity [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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A female astronaut heads off to the stars, leaving her philandering husband behind. But eventually she has to come home. Thanks to relativity, only seven years have passed for her, while her husband has aged thirty years. How will he greet her when she touches down on Earth? 2003
Words: 3092 - Reading Time: 8-12 min.
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Humans: The Neanderthal Parallax [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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The Neanderthal physicist Ponder Boddit, a character you will never forget, returns to our world and to his relationship with geneticist Mary Vaughn, in this sequel to Hominids, as cultural exchanges between the two Earths begin. Robert J. Sawyer, the award-winning and bestselling writer, hits the peak of his powers in this ongoing trilogy about our world and a parallel one in which Neanderthals became the dominant intelligent species. This powerful idea allows Sawyer to examine some of the deep... more info>> 2003 Hugo Award Nominee
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Gator [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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Paleontologist David Ludlum thinks the frequent reports of alligators in the sewers of New York may be evidence of something much more dangerous ... and much, much older. 1997
Words: 3725 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
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Lost in the Mail [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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Jacob Coin sometimes wonders about that other life he might have had: the one in which he followed his dream of becoming a paleontologist, instead of settling into the comfortable life of a freelance writer. But suddenly it's more than just idle daydreaming; suddenly, things meant for that other version of him start arriving in his mailbox, and Jacob is determined to find out what's going on... 1995 Aurora Award Nominee
Words: 4290 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
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On the Surface [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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In H.G. Wells's classic "The Time Machine," the Morlocks disassembled and studied the time machine before it was recaptured by its owner. Now that the original time traveler has gone back to Victorian England, these underground-dwelling descendants of humankind have duplicated a whole fleet of time machines ... and they're using them not to go into the past, but rather into the far, far future, where the sun hangs bloated and red over a desolate beach at the end of time... 2003
Words: 3953 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
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Ineluctable [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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Palm-Up-Middle-Fingers-Splayed, an alien being, beams a series of encoded messages to Earth, where they're picked up by Darren Hamasaki, an amateur astronomer. It's a multiple-choice exam, and all Darren, and the rest of humanity, has to do is get the answers right, before the aliens arrive in the flesh. A hard-SF first-contact scenario, involving optical SETI. 2002 Aurora Award Nominee
Words: 8634 - Reading Time: 24-34 min.
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Kata Bindu [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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Almost all of the human race has given up corporeal existence, uploading their consciousness into computers. But an ancient tribal culture still exists, preserved under a dome covering the lunar crater Copernicus, and one member of that culture has learned to fly, letting him reach places he was never meant to go, and learn things he was never supposed to know, much to the surprise and consternation of the uploaded humans who watch helplessly from back on Earth. 2004
Words: 4240 - Reading Time: 12-16 min.
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Forever [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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Cholo, a dinosaurian astronomer, managed to save his race from the impact of the great asteroid. Or did he? 1997
Words: 2931 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
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You See But You Do Not Observe [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are whisked into the year 2096 to solve the biggest mystery of all: if the universe should be teeming with life, where are the aliens? Story authorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle. 1995 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Award Winner, HOMer Award Winner
Words: 6080 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
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Peking Man [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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When the 130,000-year-old bones of Peking Man were discovered in 1927 near Beijing, they were believed to be proof of the Missing Link, but the attempt to smuggle them away from the advancing Japanese in WWII ended in disaster beneath the Atlantic in 1941. Now, from central Europe, comes the true story of Peking Man and his evil roots back to the dawn of human civilization. 1996 Aurora Award Winner
Words: 3826 - Reading Time: 10-15 min.
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Hybrids: The Neanderthal Parallax [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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The Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, Sawyer's masterwork to date, concludes with Hybrids. Torn between two worlds, geneticist Mary Vaughan and Neanderthal physicist Ponter Boddit struggle to find a way to make their relationship work. Aided by banned Neanderthal technology, they plan to conceive the first hybrid child, a symbol of hope for the peaceful coexistence of the two versions of reality. But after an experiment shows that Mary's religious faith--something completely absent in Neanderthals--... more info>>
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Shed Skin [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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George Rathburn allowed his consciousness to be scanned and reinstantiated in an artificial body, transferring all of his property and all of his rights of personhood to that new, immortal version of himself. But now the original, biological George has changed his mind, and wants it all back ... and he'll stop at nothing to get it. This short story was the seed from which Sawyer's 2005 novel Mindscan grew. 2002 Hugo Award Nominee, Nebula Award(R) Preliminary Ballot Nominee
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Immortality [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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A once-famous folk singer attends her high school's 60th reunion, and is reunited with the man who inspired her most famous, and most tragic, song. Inspired by Janis Ian's song "Society's Child," used with permission. 2003
Words: 3075 - Reading Time: 8-12 min.
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Wiping Out [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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It was time to end the war against the Altairians once and for all--that is, if the three fighter ships from Earth could reach their target... 2000
Words: 4145 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
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Come All Ye Faithful [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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Father Bailey is the one and only priest on Mars, with hardly any congregation to speak of. But his life suddenly gets interesting when the Vatican calls upon him to investigate an apparent miracle on the desolate plains of Cydonia... 2003
Words: 4712 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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Fallen Angel [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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Angela Renaldo was the star performer of the Amazing Aerial Renaldos, the world's greatest highwire circus act. But she was scared to death of falling... 2000 Bram Stoker Award Recommendation
Words: 4610 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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Above It All [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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A cosmonaut commits suicide aboard the Russian space station Mir, and the Space Shuttle Discovery is sent to retrieve the body. But astronaut Paul Rackham finds something besides a corpse waiting for him inside Mir. 1996 HOMer Award Winner
Words: 3787 - Reading Time: 10-15 min.
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Just Like Old Times [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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A serial murderer's consciousness is transferred into the mind of a Tyrannosaurus rex. But which of them was the greatest killer of all time? 1993 Arthur Ellis Award Winner, Aurora Award Winner, Seiun Award Nominee
Words: 3826 - Reading Time: 10-15 min.
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The Hand You're Dealt [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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Mendelia Space Station is supposed to be a utopia, so when Detective Toby Korsakov is called in to investigate the murder of a genetics counselor, he's quite surprised. But there are more shocks to come as his investigation leads him toward a chilling conclusion. 1997 Aurora Award Nominee, Arthur Ellis Award Nominee, SF Chronicle Poll Winner, Hugo Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 5974 - Reading Time: 17-23 min.
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Last But Not Least [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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For Matt, gym class was pure hell. He was always picked last when teams were being drawn up. But when the game started getting rough, Matt knew things would be different.... 2000
Words: 3205 - Reading Time: 9-12 min.
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WWW: Wake [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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"One of the foremost science fiction writers of our generation" (SF Site) comes to Ace with a trilogy of the Web's awakening. Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math--and blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind. But Caitlin's brain long ago co-opted her primary visual cortex to help her navigate online. So when she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality, the landscape of the World Wid... more info>>
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Iterations [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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Erik Hansen doesn't believe he's real. He thinks his entire world is a computer simulation created in the far future of what he considers to be the present. All well and good, except for one thing: the simulation also includes a version of Erik's worst enemy, Roscoe Harada. And Erik wants Roscoe dead. 2000
Words: 3699 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
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