This is a fantastic new collection of short stories from one of the world's best science fiction writers, Robert J. Sawyer. He is a Hugo and Nebula award winning writer. This is a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted sci-fi related media & organizations. This volume brings together sixt[...]
Aboard A"rgo," a colonization ship bound for Eta Cephei IV, people are very close--there's no other choice. So when Aaron Rossman's ex-wife dies in what seems to be a bizarre accident, everyone offers their sympathy, politely keeping their suspicions of suicide to themselves. But Aaron cannot simply[...]
Archaeologist Brandon Thackery and his rival Miles 'Klicks' Jordan fulfill a dinosaur lover's dream with history's first time-travel jaunt to the late Mesozoic. Hoping to solve the extinction mystery, they find Earth's gravity is only half its 21st century value and dinosaurs that behave very strang[...]
Incorporating the Hugo & Nebula award-nominated novella "Identity Theft"
The name's Lomax--Alex Lomax. I'm the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up forty years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny O'Reilly discovered fossils[...]
On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin's bullet strikes President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to the hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life--and where Professor Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a device that can erase traumatic memories. Then a terrorist bomb detonates.[...]
Robert J. Sawyer, the author of such "revelatory and thought-provoking"* novels as "Triggers "and The WWW Trilogy, presents a noir mystery expanded from his Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated novella "Identity Theft" and his Aurora Award-winning short story "Biding Time," and set on a lawless Mars in a[...]
A Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author joins Ace with a stunning new science fiction epic.
Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math, and blind. When she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality she perceives the landscape of the World Wide Web-where s[...]
It calls itself Webmind. An emerging consciousness within the World Wide Web, it has befriended Caitlin Decter and grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind has also come to the attention of WATCH, the secret United States government agency that monitors the Internet for any potential threat[...]
Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. But they all have escaped from Hobson's computer into the web-and one of them is a killer.[...]
Suddenly everyone in the world loses consciousness for two minutes. Planes fall from the sky, there are millions of car crashes, millions die. And when everyone comes round they have had a glimpse of their life in the future. When it awakes the world must live with the knowledge of what is to come. [...]
The Internet has become sentient. The world's governments are terrified, it seems the evolution of a new intelligence might have left mankind behind. It is up to one blind girl, a maths genius, to convince mankind that this new digital life is not its enemy. Perfect for fans of Charles Stross and Ve[...]
The president of the United States is shot in the head by a would-be assassin. Rushed to hospital and barely saved from death, he discovers that he has new memories - memories that are not his own. A scientific experiment has gone awry, and a small group of people now remember each other's lives. [...]
In the near future, a signal is detected coming from the Alpha Centauri system. Mysterious, unintelligible data streams in for ten years. Heather Davis, a professor in the University of Toronto psychology department, has devoted her career to deciphering the message. Her estranged husband, Kyle, is [...]
Afsan, a young saurian, learns much about the heavens while apprenticed to the court astrologer. But he is ostracized when he contradicts the saurian religious belief that the great glowing body which fills the sky each night is a divinity. An intriguing story set in a world where the age of dinosau[...]
A scientist working on the Human Genome Project discovers that his insurance company is secretly taking genetic samples from its policyholders. His investigation reveals that the company's profit margin is skyrocketing as at-risk clients are mysteriously eliminated and that the mastermind behind the[...]
An alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. A six-legged, two-armed alien emerges and says, in perfect English, "Take me to a paleontologist."
In the distant past, Earth, the alien's home planet, and the home planet of another alien species, all experienced the same[...]
The first volume of a new trilogy, the Neanderthal Parallax, focuses on a parallel world in which neanderthals, rather than homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligent species, until a dangerous scientific experiment traps a neanderthal physicist on Earth. Reprint.[...]
Robert J. Sawyer, the award-winning and bestselling writer, hits the peak of his powers in "Humans," the second book of "The Neanderthal Parallax," his trilogy about our world and parallel one in which it was the Homo sapiens who died out and the Neanderthals who became the dominant intelligent spec[...]
In the conclusion of the Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, human geneticist Mary Vaughan and Neanderthal physicist Ponter Boddit struggle to make their relationship work and to conceive a hybrid child, while Mary's Earth faces the collapse of its planetary magnetic field and her boss, Jock Krieger, plot[...]
Dr. Sarah Halifax decoded the first-ever radio transmission received from aliens. Thirty-eight years later, a second message is received and Sarah, now 87, may hold the key to deciphering this one, too . . . if she lives long enough. A wealthy industrialist offers to pay for Sarah to have a rollback[...]
Jake Sullivan has cheated death: he's discarded his doomed biological body and copied his consciousness into an android form. The new Jake soon finds the love that eluded him when he was encased in flesh - he falls for the android version of Karen, a woman rediscovering all the joys of life now that[...]
Robert J. Sawyer, the author of such 'revelatory and thought-provoking' novels as TRIGGERS and The WWW Trilogy, presents a noir mystery expanded from his HUGO and NEBULA AWARD-nominated novella IDENTITY THEFT and his AURORA AWARD-winning short story 'Biding Time', set on a lawless Mars in a future w[...]