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Iterations
This collection of 22 short stories by the man The Ottawa Citizen calls "the dean of Canadian science fiction" includes Hugo Award nominee "The Hand You're Dealt," Bram Stoker Award finalist "Fallen Angel," Aurora Award winner "Peking Man," and Arthur Ellis Award winner "Just Like Old Times." You'll inhabit the mind of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, join Sherlock Holmes as he solves...more
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by Quarry Press (CN)
(first published 2002)
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"Iterations" by Robert J. Sawyer has clever, horror, and "hard scifi" based on possibilities suggested by physics research. Prejudiced against scary stuff and pro-ramps, my favorite is his first major sale 1987 #7 "Uphill Climb". Whether the pretty woman is related by blood or love is never specified, but she is obviously dear. A couple almost hopeful tales depend on the destruction of our Earth. The rest are dark, black, Halloween campfire material.
Intros backgrounding how or why, related to au...more
Intros backgrounding how or why, related to au...more
Robert J. Sawyer - called "the dean of Canadian science fiction" by the "Ottawa Citizen" and "just about the best science fiction writer out there these days" by the "Rocky Mountain News" - won the World Science Fiction Society's Hugo Award for his novel "Hominids" and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's Nebula Award for his novel "The Terminal Experiment." "Iterations" is Sawyer's first short story collection, gathering 22 fantastic tales from such diverse places as "Amazing St...more
This one was an impulse read. I was at the library for some reason or other and was loath to leave empty handed. This collection of short stories was there for the taking in the science fiction section, so I snatched it up. What can I say? I loved it! Not that it's such a big surprise. If you read a collection of short stories, the odds are fairly good that you'll find something enjoyable in it. Add the fact that these particular short stories are written by Robert J. Sawyer--who, despite his ob...more
"Mir's interior was like everything in the Russian space program--rough, metallic, ramshackle, looking more like a Victorian steamworks than space-age technology." (from Above It All)
Also describes how these stories seem to me -- they have a more pedestrian imagination than I expect from SF.
Fallen Angel is based on this sculpture by Lisa Snellings:
Also describes how these stories seem to me -- they have a more pedestrian imagination than I expect from SF.
Fallen Angel is based on this sculpture by Lisa Snellings:
Sawyer’s short story collection is an odd mix. For a guy with a rep as a hard SF author, he offers up quite a wide range here (even one “mainstream” story, as well as a few fantasy works), some of which is excellent, most of which is very good, and only some of which is so-so—but the best ones are not, generally, the hard SF ones. Go figure.
This is a great selection of short stories from Robert J. Sawyer.
Some of the stories are foundational in that what started out as a short story has been the source of full length novel later on by the author.
For each story the author describes how it came to be and any awards, and there are many, that it has won.
There are time travel stories, altered perspectives, and a broad range that will tickle anyone’s fancy.
There are 22 stories in total and they all have the touch of the author which incl...more
Some of the stories are foundational in that what started out as a short story has been the source of full length novel later on by the author.
For each story the author describes how it came to be and any awards, and there are many, that it has won.
There are time travel stories, altered perspectives, and a broad range that will tickle anyone’s fancy.
There are 22 stories in total and they all have the touch of the author which incl...more
A great book that's fun to read. Sawyer's ability to mix science with science fiction lets you really get into and belive his stories.
Creepy to a fault. This one left me wondering about parallel universe for a long long time when I was a kid.
Great collection!
Mar 21, 2013
Mathew
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Feb 23, 2013
Jay Michaels
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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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