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Identity Theft: And Other Stories
"2009 Aurora Award nominee" ""A sense of wonder that hasn't prevailed in American SF since the days of Heinlein.""-Books in Canada
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...more
Paperback, 286 pages
Published
March 31st 2008
by Red Deer Press
(first published March 2008)
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Apr 18, 2011
Jamie
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2 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
liberal sci-fi fans and those who are starved for something/anything to read
After reading Rollback and not caring for it all that much (see my review), I decided to give Mr. Sawyer one more chance by reading this collection of short stories. Unfortunately, these short stories reinforced my original view of his works as liberalism masked as sci-fi.
There are some good stories in here: "Mikeys" was quite well-done; "Kata Bindu" was an interesting take on the typical moon colony story; and "Flashes" was a very good thought experiment about the Earth suddenly receiving "page...more
There are some good stories in here: "Mikeys" was quite well-done; "Kata Bindu" was an interesting take on the typical moon colony story; and "Flashes" was a very good thought experiment about the Earth suddenly receiving "page...more
I had not paid attention when I picked the book up and thought I was reading an anthology of identity theft stories though was puzzled as the individual authors were not being credited and why the anthology editor kept writing about himself so much. It was only after a few stories that I realized it’s a collection but it also shows how good Robert Sawyer is at writing in a “different hand” for each story. The first few stories are about identity theft in one form or another.
All of the stories ar...more
All of the stories ar...more
What a wonderful surprise this book was.
I grabbed it at the library, on impulse. I didn't even read the blurb before grabbing it, and I was surprised to find that it was sci-fi (I think I expected some kind of mystery/thriller from the title!).
Not only sci-fi, but sci-fi with a noir detective. It would be an understatement to say that my last foray into fiction with both of those elements did not go well. (A vast, vast understatement of epic proportions. So much so that I would have thrown this...more
I grabbed it at the library, on impulse. I didn't even read the blurb before grabbing it, and I was surprised to find that it was sci-fi (I think I expected some kind of mystery/thriller from the title!).
Not only sci-fi, but sci-fi with a noir detective. It would be an understatement to say that my last foray into fiction with both of those elements did not go well. (A vast, vast understatement of epic proportions. So much so that I would have thrown this...more
Un breve giallo ambientato nel futuro. Il trasferimento della coscienza, da un biologico a un corpo meccanico, eterno, dove la coscienza trasferisce a un software interno i comandi che esso elabora ed invia alle membra. I trasferiti non hanno mobilit� facciale o quasi, e possono essere completamente differente dall'originale biologico. Difficile, quindi, dire "chi � realmente" la coscienza nascosta in queste nuove fattezze pseudo umane. Ma facile, scappare e nascondersi sotto falsa identit�. Car...more
Apr 18, 2013
Eddy Allen
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3 of 5 stars
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"2009 Aurora Award nominee" ""A sense of wonder that hasn't prevailed in American SF since the days of Heinlein.""-Books in Canada
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 Encyc...more
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 Encyc...more
The title story and it's sequel were entertaining. But pretty much all of the rest of them seemed so completely implausible that I couldn't really get into them at all. I've said before that Robert Sawyer's work is always either very very good or very very bad--well, file this one under "bad".
I always enjoy Sawyer's work, but I think I prefer his longer efforts. (So does he, according to several of the story intros.)
A fine collection of short stories and novellas from the Canadian master.
Like all scifi I just read it to kill time.
Didnt like
Excellent group of short stories by Robert Sawyer, who is a premiere sci fi writer.
iSekurity
Inventive Canadian science fiction. Plots tend to be a little simple, and sci-fi should be the one genre you have trouble finding plot holes...mild disappointment, however. No characterization whatsoever, which is a somewhat greater disappointment, but again, the genre is more forgiving than most in this area.
Some great stuff here, including some Martian murder mysteries that reminded me of Asimov's detective stories with the sidekick robot. Also some in-jokes for Canucks and Torontonians. A great intro to the author, whom I'll definitely be reading more of.
I'd like to rate this higher but I was generally more interested in the settings than the stories. There are a couple of excellent stories in here but this is definitely a collection for fans of Sawyer and not fans of short fiction.
Some stories were very good such as Shed Skin and Identity Thief while others were less good.
Carino. Niente di più.
I liked most of the stories in the book except for Shed Skin which I already read and hated as it made no sense (see below) The title story was an okay mystery and the stories Flashes and the Aurora Award winner Ineluctable were really good and gave one a lot to think about.
The problem with Shed Skin and its novel expansion Mindscan:
If you get a robot created with your memories and then retire to the moon to die, what exactly is the benefit for you other than knowing a robot with your memories i...more
The problem with Shed Skin and its novel expansion Mindscan:
If you get a robot created with your memories and then retire to the moon to die, what exactly is the benefit for you other than knowing a robot with your memories i...more
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Robert J. Sawyer is one of Canada's best known and most successful science fiction writers. He is the only Canadian (and one of only 7 writers in the world) to have won all three of the top international awards for science fiction: the 1995 Nebula Award for The Terminal Experiment, the 2003 Hugo Award for Hominids, and the 2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Mindscan.
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