Starplex

Starplex PDF Author: Robert J. Sawyer
Publisher: Robert Sawyer
ISBN: 9780889954441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Aurora Award-winning Science-fiction Classic back in Print! The only novel from its year to be nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Flashforward will be published during ABC's highly anticipated new series, Flashforward, which begab Thursday September 24th. This series is based on Robert Sawyer's first novel of the same name - so interst in his titles will increase with this high exposure. Check out the trailer at: http://abc.go.com/shows/flash-forward The giant exploration starship Starplex - crewed by humans, dolphins, and extraterrestrials - embarks on a journey covering billions of years of time and millions of light-years of space.

The Terminal Experiment

The Terminal Experiment PDF Author: Robert J. Sawyer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110154368X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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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.

Starplex

Starplex PDF Author: Robert J. Sawyer
Publisher: Robert Sawyer
ISBN: 9780889954441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Aurora Award-winning Science-fiction Classic back in Print! The only novel from its year to be nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Flashforward will be published during ABC's highly anticipated new series, Flashforward, which begab Thursday September 24th. This series is based on Robert Sawyer's first novel of the same name - so interst in his titles will increase with this high exposure. Check out the trailer at: http://abc.go.com/shows/flash-forward The giant exploration starship Starplex - crewed by humans, dolphins, and extraterrestrials - embarks on a journey covering billions of years of time and millions of light-years of space.

Quantum Night

Quantum Night PDF Author: Robert J. Sawyer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101638885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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With such compelling and provocative novels as Red Planet Blues, FlashForward and The WWW Trilogy, Robert J. Sawyer has proven himself to be “a writer of boundless confidence and bold scientific extrapolation” (New York Times). Now, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author explores the thin line between good and evil that every human being is capable of crossing… Experimental psychologist Jim Marchuk has developed a flawless technique for identifying the previously undetected psychopaths lurking everywhere in society. But while being cross-examined about his breakthrough in court, Jim is shocked to discover that he has lost his memories of six months of his life from twenty years previously—a dark time during which he himself committed heinous acts. Jim is reunited with Kayla Huron, his forgotten girlfriend from his lost period and now a quantum physicist who has made a stunning discovery about the nature of human consciousness. As a rising tide of violence and hate sweeps across the globe, the psychologist and the physicist combine forces in a race against time to see if they can do the impossible—change human nature—before the entire world descends into darkness.

Calculating God

Calculating God PDF Author: Robert J. Sawyer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429914599
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Calculating God is the new near-future SF thriller from the popular and award-winning Robert J. Sawyer. An alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. A six-legged, two-armed alien emerges, who says, in perfect English, "Take me to a paleontologist." It seems that Earth, and the alien's home planet, and the home planet of another alien species traveling on the alien mother ship, all experienced the same five cataclysmic events at about the same time (one example of these "cataclysmic events" would be the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs). Both alien races believe this proves the existence of God: i.e. he's obviously been playing with the evolution of life on each of these planets. From this provocative launch point, Sawyer tells a fast-paced, and morally and intellectually challenging, SF story that just grows larger and larger in scope. The evidence of God's universal existence is not universally well received on Earth, nor even immediately believed. And it reveals nothing of God's nature. In fact. it poses more questions than it answers. When a supernova explodes out in the galaxy but close enough to wipe out life on all three home-worlds, the big question is, Will God intervene or is this the sixth cataclysm:? Calculating God is SF on the grand scale. Calculating God is a 2001 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Hominids

Hominids PDF Author: Robert J. Sawyer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429914637
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Robert Sawyer's SF novels are perennial nominees for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, or both. Clearly, he must be doing something right since each one has been something new and different. What they do have in common is imaginative originality, great stories, and unique scientific extrapolation. His latest is no exception. Hominids is a strong, stand-alone SF novel, but it's also the first book of The Neanderthal Parallax, a trilogy that will examine two unique species of people. They are alien to each other, yet bound together by the never-ending quest for knowledge and, beneath their differences, a common humanity. We are one of those species, the other is the Neanderthals of a parallel world where they, not Homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligence. In that world, Neanderthal civilization has reached heights of culture and science comparable to our own, but is very different in history, society, and philosophy. During a risky experiment deep in a mine in Canada, Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist, accidentally pierces the barrier between worlds and is transferred to our universe, where in the same mine another experiment is taking place. Hurt, but alive, he is almost immediately recognized as a Neanderthal, but only much later as a scientist. He is captured and studied, alone and bewildered, a stranger in a strange land. But Ponter is also befriended-by a doctor and a physicist who share his questing intelligence and boundless enthusiasm for the world's strangeness, and especially by geneticist Mary Vaughan, a lonely woman with whom he develops a special rapport. Meanwhile, Ponter's partner, Adikor Huld, finds himself with a messy lab, a missing body, suspicious people all around, and an explosive murder trial that he can't possibly win because he has no idea what actually happened. Talk about a scientific challenge! Contact between humans and Neanderthals creates a relationship fraught with conflict, philosophical challenge, and threat to the existence of one species or the other-or both-but equally rich in boundless possibilities for cooperation and growth on many levels, from the practical to the esthetic to the scientific to the spiritual. In short, Robert J. Sawyner has done it again. Hominids is the winner of the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Flashforward

Flashforward PDF Author: Robert J. Sawyer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429914580
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Robert J. Sawyer's award-winning science fiction has garnered both popular and critical acclaim. The New York Times Book Review called Frameshift "filled to bursting with ideas, characters and incidents." His novels are fixtures on the Hugo and Nebula ballots. Sawyer now brings us Flashforward, the story of a world-shattering discovery. In pursuit of an elusive nuclear particle, an experiment goes incredibly awry, and, for a few moments, the consciousness of the entire human race is thrown ahead by about twenty years. As the implications truly hit home, the pressure to repeat the experiment builds. Everyone wants a glimpse of their future, a chance to flashforward and see their successes ... or learn how to avoid their failures. Winner of the Aurora Award and the basis for the hit ABC television series. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Far-Seer

Far-Seer PDF Author: Robert J. Sawyer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429914688
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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The Face of God is what every young saurian learns to call the immense, glowing object which fills the night sky on the far side of the world. Young Afsan is privileged, called to the distant Capital City to apprentice with Saleed the court astrologer. Buth when the time comes for Afsan to make his coming-of-age pilgrimage, to gaze upon the Face of God, his world is changed forever- for what he sees will test his faith... and may save his world from disaster! At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

Iterations

Iterations PDF Author: Robert J. Sawyer
Publisher: Calgary : Red Deer Press
ISBN: 9780889953031
Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Robert J. Sawyer -- bestselling author of Calculating God and Hominids -- has won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel of the Year. Here, with his first-ever collection of stories, he proves he's equally adept at shorter lengths. The tales gathered in Iterations have been nominated for the Hugo and Bram Stoker Awards, and have won the Aurora Award the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award, and France's top SF award, Le Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. Each story is prefaced by Sawyer's account of its genesis, and the collection as a whole is introduced by acclaimed science-fiction writer James Alan Gardner. In Iterations, you'll find out what really happened to the bones of Peking Man, discover the fact of physics that makes the pope abdicate, see Sherlock Holmes solve the greatest puzzle in modern science, transfer consciousness into a Tyrannosaurus rex, and visit the surface of a Dyson sphere. Book jacket.

The Terminal Experiment

The Terminal Experiment PDF Author: Robert J. Sawyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780848827571
Category : Detective and mystery stories, Canadian
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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The Gemini Experiment

The Gemini Experiment PDF Author: Brian Pinkerton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1787582302
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155

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"A dizzying compilation of action scenes and moral quandaries...Pinkerton wields fast pacing and an entertaining, electrifying plot" - Publishers Weekly In a secret lab, a team of doctors and scientists funded by a mysterious billionaire create the first human replica entirely from technology. The robot is prepared to host the digitized consciousness of Tom Nolan, a family man suffering from a terminal illness. But when Tom’s replica escapes before the transfer can take place, he is faced with the horrors of an alter ego bent on death and destruction. When the experiment draws the attraction of spies, Tom is caught up in an international crisis with a showdown that could change the course of the world. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.