15 Books by Robert J. Sawyer
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Overview:Robert J. Sawyer was born in Toronto, Canada. He studied Radio and Television Arts, and after graduating in 1982 he began a lucrative career in journalism. He began writing science fiction in 1988 and is now a full-time writer. Sawyer has twice won the Aurora, the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award; and in 1993 he won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story, by the Crime Writers of Canada. He won the 1995 Nebula Award for his novel ‘Terminal Experiment’.
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
Calculating God (2000)
When aliens land in Toronto, they present astounding evidence that their planet and Earth have experienced the same cataclysmic events — evidence that they claim proves the existence of God.
End of an Era (1994)
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 strangely. Could the slimy blue creatures from Mars have something to do with both?
Factoring Humanity (1998)
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 following the suicide of their daughter Mary. When younger daughter Rebecca confronts her parents and accuses her father of molesting her, the family starts to shake apart. Redemption comes in the unlikely form of alien altruism: the messages from Alpha Centauri that psychologist Heather has studied for years prove to be blueprints for a "psychospace" device that enables her to see into the overmind of humanity, and to know anyone’s deepest thoughts. In a flash, Kyle is exonerated, Rebecca apologizes, and her nasty, manipulative therapist is blamed for the false accusation. Although the novel ends with Heather greeting the first starship from Alpha Centauri, the bulk of the plot centers around the family’s own mystery, and so the conclusion comes off as anti-climactic. Sawyer also includes too many digressions about the cultural significance of Seinfeld, Star Trek bloopers and quantum physics, delivering a tale that ultimately works more as a study of the human heart than as believable story of alien encounter.
Frameshift (1997)
Pierre Tardivel, a French Canadian geneticist, works on identifying junk DNA for the Human Genome Project. There is a 50 percent chance that Pierre is carrying the gene for Huntington’s disease, a fatal disorder. That knowledge drives Pierre to succeed in a race against time to complete his research. But a strange set of circumstances — including a knife attack, the in vitro fertilization of his wife, and an insurance company plot to use DNA samples to weed out clients predisposed to early deaths — draw Tardivel into a story that will ultimately involve the hunt for a Nazi death camp doctor.
Golden Fleece (1990)
Aboard Argo, 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 accept her death. He must know the truth: Was it an accident, or did she commit suicide? When Aaron discovers the truth behind her death, he is faced with a terrible secret—a secret that could cost him his life.
Sawyer’s four most recent novels were nominated for the Hugo Award. He has won the Nebula Award for Best Novel, as well as the major Canadian awards for best science fiction and best mystery fiction. Here is the novel that began his career.
Identity Theft and Other Stories (2008) SSC
This new collection by the man Anne McCaffrey calls "an absolutely marvelous writer" includes Hugo Award nominee "Shed Skin," Nebula Award nominee "Identity Theft," and Aurora Award winner "Ineluctable." In these pages, you’ll discover the dark secret of the only priest on Mars, revisit H.G. Wells’s Morlocks, and learn what really happens when aliens beam us the Encyclopedia Galactica.
Content:
Introduction by Robert Charles Wilson
Identity Theft
Come All Ye Faithful
Immortality
Shed Skin
The Stanley Cup Caper
On The Surface
The Eagle Has Landed
Mikeys
The Good Doctor
Ineluctable
The Right’s Tough
Kata Bindu
Driving a Bargain
Flashes
Relativity
Biding Time
Postscript: E-Mails from the Future
Bonus Short Stories
Iterations (2002) SSC
Iterations is Sawyer’s first short story collection, gathering 22 fantastic tales from such diverse places as Amazing Stories, the Village Voice, the Globe & Mail, and Nature.
Contents:
Introduction by James Alan Gardner
The Hand You’re Dealt
Peking Man
Iterations
Gator
The Blue Planet
Wiping Out
Uphill Climb
Last But Not Least
If I’m Here, Imagine Where They Sent My Luggage
Where the Heart Is
Lost in the Mail
Just Like Old Times
The Contest
Stream of Consciousness
Forever
The Abdication of Pope Mary III
Star Light, Star Bright
Above It All
Ours to Discover
You See But You Do Not Observe
Fallen Angel
The Shoulders of Giants
Quintaglio Ascension 01 Far-Seer
The Quintaglio Ascension trilogy depicts an Earth-like world on a moon which orbits a gas giant, inhabited by a species of highly evolved, sentient Tyrannosaurs called Quintaglios, among various other creatures from the late cretaceous period, imported to this moon by aliens 65 million years prior to the story.
Quintaglio Ascension 02 Fossil Hunter
Toroca, a Quintaglio geologist, is under attack for his controversial new theory of evolution. But the origins of his people turn out to be more complex than even he imagined, for he soon discovers the wreckage of an ancient starship – a relic of the aliens who transplanted Earth’s dinosaurs to this solar system. Now, Toroca must convince Emperor Dybo that evolution is true; otherwise, the territorial violence the Quintaglios inherited from their tyrannosaur ancestors will destroy the last survivors of Earth’s prehistoric past.
Quintaglio Ascension 03 Foreigner
The final episode in Sawyer’s popular chronicle of the Quintaglio race, an evolved dinosaur species occupying the moon of a gas giant known as the Face of God, reveals some surprising secrets about the race’s origins and brings the trilogy to a suspenseful close. Still suffering the punishment of blindness for declaring the Face of God a planet and the Quintaglio world doomed to destruction in 100 years, the famed astronomer Afsan undergoes a revelatory new therapy for restoring vision to his regrown eyes. Meanwhile, on an ocean voyage, Afsan’s son discovers another intelligent saurian race, which provokes violence from the Quintaglios that leads to an interspecies war, and the exploration of a ruined alien spacecraft by Afsan’s ex-mate Novato triggers the automated construction of an awe-inspiring space tower that may provide the Quintaglios the means of escaping their world before it breaks apart. Sawyer deftly combines well-reasoned hard-science speculation with psychology, imaginative alien anthropology, and even linguistics (the book includes a Quintaglio glossary) to produce a fascinating and memorable adventure that’s not just for dinosaur lovers.
Red Planet Blues (2013)
Robert J. Sawyer 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 where everything is cheap, and life is even cheaper …Alex Lomax is the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up 40 years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny O’Reilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet. Back on Earth, where anything can be synthesized, the remains of alien life are the most valuable of all collectibles, so shiploads of desperate treasure hunters stampeded to Mars in the Great Martian Fossil Rush.Trying to make an honest buck in a dishonest world, Lomax tracks down killers and kidnappers among the failed prospectors, corrupt cops, and a growing population of transfers – lucky stiffs who, after striking paleontological gold, upload their minds into immortal android bodies. But when he uncovers clues to solving the decades-old murders of Weingarten and O’Reilly, along with a journal that may lead to their legendary mother lode of Martian fossils, God only knows what he’ll dig up …
Relativity (2004) SSC
Relativity includes stories, essays, articles and speeches by Sawyer, as well as an introduction by Mike Resnick, an afterword and crossword puzzle by Valerie Broege and cover art by Jael.
Includes:
Short Stories, speeches, and articles by Rob
A fabulous cover painting by Jael
An introduction to the book by Mike Resnick
A critical essay by Valerie Broege, Vanier College
A crossword puzzle
An autobiography and bibliography
All 12 of Rob’s On Writing columns from On Spec
Short stories:
"Just Like Old Times" — winner, Arthur Ellis Award!
"Immortality"
"The Stanley Cup Caper"
"Relativity"
"Star Light, Star Bright"
"The Hand You’re Dealt" — winner, Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award!
"The Shoulders of Giants"
"Ineluctable" — winner of the Aurora Award!
Speeches:
2003 Hugo Award Ceremony [acceptance speech]
The Future Is Already Here: Is There A Place For Science Fiction in the 21st Century?
AI and Sci-Fi, Oh, My!
Science Fiction and Social Change
Articles:
A Tale of Two Stories
Pros and Cons
Remembering Judith Merril
Science and God
Committing Trilogy
Privacy: Who Needs It?
The Age of Miracle and Wonder
s Risk Our Business?
The Private Sector in Space
Atwood’s Depressing Future
Rollback (2007)
Robert J. Sawyer 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’s response, is 87 when the second, encrypted message arrives 38 years later. To aid the decoding, a tycoon buys rejuvenation treatment for Sarah and Don, her husband of 60 years; however, only Don becomes young again. While coping with the physical indignities of old age, Sarah tries to figure out the puzzle of the second message. The bond between Don and Sarah continues, even while Don is joyfully and guiltily discovering the pleasures of living in a young body again. They want to do what’s right for each other and the rest of humanity — for the aliens, too — if they can figure out what “right” could be. By its nature, a story about moral choices tends to get talky, but the talk is intelligent and performed by sympathetic and believable people.
Starplex (1996)
Robert J. Sawyer offers an epic hard-science space adventure full of technical descriptions of starships and physics tempered by human concerns. In the twenty-first century, the human race has both developed faster-than-light travel and contacted nonhuman intelligent races. Starplex, under the command of Keith Lansing, is one of the contact makers. Lansing faces hostile crew members, the personal and cultural idiosyncracies of nonhumans, the problems of first contact, and a marriage that may be deteriorating. Scientists on the Starplex study the mysterious artificial wormholes that make space travel routine and convenient. Then the wormholes’ creators appear, and the scientists must understand and communicate with them to save the galaxy.
Boarding the Enterprise: Transporters, Tribbles, and the Vulcan Death Grip in Gene Rodenberry’s Star Trek (2006) NF
edited by David Gerrold, Robert J. Sawyer & Leah Wilson
Trekkies and Trekkers alike will get starry-eyed over this eclectic mix of essays on the groundbreaking original Star Trek series. Star Trek writers D. C. Fontana and David Gerrold, science fiction authors such as Howard Weinstein, and various academics share behind-the-scenes anecdotes, discuss the shows enduring appeal and influence, and examine some of the classic features of the show, including Spocks irrationality, Scottys pessimism, and the lack of seatbelts on the Enterprise. The impact of the cultural phenomenon on subsequent science-fiction television programs is explored, as well as how the show laid the foundation for the science fiction genre to break into the television medium.
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