Edited by David Farland. Galaxy, $15.95 trade paper (496p) ISBN 978-1-61986-529-7
Given that the 14 new writers represented in this anthology are all winners of the contest L. Ron Hubbard founded in 1983, it’s not surprising that their contributions are of a consistently high quality. There’s nothing groundbreaking here, but...
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Robert J. Sawyer, Author Ace Books $21.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-441-00476-8
If an alien spaceship appeared in Earth orbit tomorrow, how would humanity react? If Sawyer (Frameshift) is right, there would be little hysteria, especially if the aliens came to us in need of help. In Sawyer's new novel, the Tosoks, natives of a...
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Robert J. Sawyer. Ace, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-425-25683-1
Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Sawyer’s latest work is a fast-moving, mind-stretching exploration of the nature of personality and consciousness; it balances esoteric speculation with action and character. James Marchuk, a psychology professor
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Robert J. Sawyer. Ace, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-937007-16-4
Canadian futurist Sawyer (Flashforward) builds a turbo-charged techno-thriller around an experimental memory-altering machine. After an assassination attempt, U.S. President Jerrison is rushed into surgery. Minutes later, a bomb explodes at the...
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Robert J. Sawyer, Author Tor Books $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86458-3
It's the personal implications of first contact that Sawyer (Illegal Alien) dramatizes in his disturbing and uneven new novel. Set in Canada, circa 2017, the story focuses on Heather and her computer-scientist husband, Kyle, who have separated...
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Robert J. Sawyer, Author Tor Books $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86325-8
It's awfully tough to follow success. Sawyer, a skilled writer of SF techno-thrillers whose The Terminal Experiment won the 1995 Nebula for Best Novel, stumbles in his attempt. After learning that he has a 50/50 chance of carrying the deadly gene...
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Robert J. Sawyer, Author Tor Books $24.95 (303p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1107-8
This tightly plotted hard SF stand-alone novel from Hugo and Nebula winner Sawyer (Hybrids , etc.) offers plenty of philosophical speculation on the ethics of bio-technology and the nature of consciousness, but few surprises. To evade a rare medical
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Robert J. Sawyer, Author Tor Books $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-86713-3
Sawyer (Flashforward; Factoring Humanity), a Canadian, is one of contemporary SF's most consistent performers. His new novel concerns the appearance at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto of a spiderlike alien paleontologist named Hollus. The alien...
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Robert J. Sawyer, Author Tor Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-86712-6
A science experiment that unwittingly shuts down all human consciousness for two minutes is the catalyst for a creative exploration of fate, free will and the nature of the universe in Sawyer's soul-searching new work (after Factoring Humanity). In...
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Robert J. Sawyer, Author . Tor $25.95 (444p) ISBN 978-0-312-87692-0
In this polished anthropological SF yarn, the first of a trilogy from Nebula Award winner Sawyer (The Terminal Experiment), Neanderthals have developed a radically different civilization on a parallel Earth, as both sides discover when a Neanderthal
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Robert J. Sawyer, Author Ace Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-441-22551-4
Sawyer ( Golden Fleece ) postulates a world (not the earth) in which dinosaurs, called Quintaglios, have evolved to humanlike levels of civilization--cities, formal government and religion. While on a sea pilgrimage to a heavenly body known as the...
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Robert J. Sawyer, Author Ace $24.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-441-01679-2
The wildly thought-provoking first installment of Sawyer's WWW trilogy, serialized in Analog
in 2008 and 2009, explores the origins and emergence of consciousness. Blind teen Caitlin Decter gets an experimental signal-processing implant that...
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Robert J. Sawyer, Author . Tor $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-765-31108-5
Canadian author Sawyer (Mindscan
) once again presents likable characters facing big ethical dilemmas in this smoothly readable near-future SF novel. Astronomer Sarah Halifax, who translated the first message from aliens and helped prepare humanity&#
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Robert J. Sawyer, Author . Tor $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-87690-6
Canadian writer Sawyer brings his Neanderthal Parallax trilogy to a close, leaving some loose ends that beg for a follow-up further exploring the interaction of two parallel worlds: the overcrowded and polluted one we're used to and another...
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Robert J. Sawyer, Author . Tor $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-87691-3
In this solid sequel to Hominids
(2002), the much-praised first volume in Sawyer's Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, which introduced an alternate Earth where for reasons unknown our species, Homo sapiens, went extinct and Neanderthals flourished,...
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Robert J. Sawyer, Author, Edo Van Belkom, Author, Colleen Anderson, Author Mosaic Press (NY) $14.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-88962-634-8
The 12 authors--all Canadian--whose work is represented in this collection try to predict humanity's future and examine what it is that makes us human. For the most part, their visions are original, but none will make readers look up from the page...
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