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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. (Published: 1996) HOMer Award Winner
Words: 3787 - Reading Time: 10-15 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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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. (Published: 1996) Aurora Award Winner
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. (Published: 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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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? (Published: 1997)
Words: 2931 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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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. (Published: 1997)
Words: 3725 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Horror
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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. (Published: 2000)
Words: 3699 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Mystery/Crime
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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? (Published: 2003)
Words: 3092 - Reading Time: 8-12 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Stream of Consciousness [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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An alien scout craft crashes in northern Ontario, and the pilot is dying. Can a small group of humans who've never seen an alien before save the life of the pilot? (Published: 1998)
Words: 4053 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Blue Planet [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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Earth's space probes sent to Mars keep disappearing--thanks to living, breathing Martians! A short, comic tale with a twist that made it into David Hartwell's Year's Best SF 5. (Published: 1999)
Words: 1416 - Reading Time: 4-5 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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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. (Published: 2003)
Words: 3075 - Reading Time: 8-12 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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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. (Published: 2002) Aurora Award Nominee
Words: 8634 - Reading Time: 24-34 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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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? (Published: 1993) Arthur Ellis Award Winner, Aurora Award Winner, Seiun Award Nominee
Words: 3826 - Reading Time: 10-15 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. (Published: 2004)
Words: 4240 - Reading Time: 12-16 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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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.... (Published: 2000)
Words: 3205 - Reading Time: 9-12 min.
Category: Horror
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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... (Published: 2000)
Words: 4677 - Reading Time: 13-18 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... (Published: 2000)
Words: 4145 - Reading Time: 11-16 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. (Published: 1995) Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Award Winner, HOMer Award Winner
Words: 6080 - Reading Time: 17-24 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... (Published: 2003)
Words: 4712 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Spiritual/Religion
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Driving a Bargain [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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Sixteen-year-old Jerry would do anything to have a set of wheels of his own, and he really didn't care who'd owned it before him, or what they'd done--no matter how bad--with the car.... (Published: 2002)
Words: 5251 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
Category: Horror
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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... (Published: 2000) Bram Stoker Award Recommendation
Words: 4610 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
Category: Horror
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Identity Theft [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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A hard-boiled detective novella set on Mars. Cassandra and Joshua Wilkins are fossil hunters who have both recently transferred their minds into artificial bodies--and now Joshua has mysteriously disappeared. Cassandra hires Alex Lomax, the only private detective on the Red Planet, to locate Joshua before sinister forces get to him. (Published: 2005) Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 22991 - Reading Time: 65-91 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... (Published: 1995) Aurora Award Nominee
Words: 4290 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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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... (Published: 2003)
Words: 3953 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Robert J. Sawyer Bundle
by Robert J. Sawyer
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A convenient way to add all of Robert J. Sawyer's eBooks to your bookshelf at one time. [When you add a bundle to your cart, any eBooks you already own are automatically removed. You can't accidentally buy the same story twice.] (Published: 2002)
Words: 57001 - Reading Time: 162-228 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Horror
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Shed Skin [MP3 Audio]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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To live forever, you can copy your mind and transfer it to an immortal robotic body. But what happens to your Shed Skin? (Published: 2002) Hugo Award Nominee
Length: 0 hours, 46 minutes, 52 secs
Category: Science Fiction
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