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  Reiterated

  the complete short fiction

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Cover

  Jerry eBooks

  Title Page

  About Robert J. Sawyer

  “Biolog”

  Bibliography

  Short Fiction Bibliography: chronological

  Short Fiction Bibliography: alphabetical

  Fiction Series

  Epigraph

  1980

  THE CONTEST

  1981

  IF I’M HERE, IMAGINE WHERE THEY SENT MY LUGGAGE

  1982

  OURS TO DISCOVER

  1987

  UPHILL CLIMB

  1988

  GOLDEN FLEECE

  1989

  THE GOOD DOCTOR

  1992

  WHERE THE HEART IS

  1993

  JUST LIKE OLD TIMES

  1994

  HOBSON’S CHOICE (Part One of Four)

  HOBSON’S CHOICE (Part Two of Four)

  HOBSON’S CHOICE (Part Three of Four)

  HOBSON’S CHOICE (Conclusion)

  1995

  LOST IN THE MAIL

  YOU SEE BUT YOU DO NOT OBSERVE

  1996

  STARPLEX (Part One of Four)

  STARPLEX (Part Two of Four)

  STARPLEX (Part Three of Four)

  STARPLEX (Conclusion)

  ABOVE IT ALL

  PEKING MAN

  1997

  FOREVER

  THE HAND YOU’RE DEALT

  GATOR

  1999

  STREAM OF CONSCIOUNESS

  MARS REACTS!

  2000

  ITERATIONS

  LAST BUT NOT LEAST

  THE BLUE PLANET

  THE SHOULDER OF GIANTS

  THE ABDICATION OF POPE MARY III

  FALLEN ANGEL

  STAR LIGHT, STAR BRIGHT

  WIPING OUT

  2002

  HOMINIDS (Part I of IV)

  HOMINIDS (Part II of IV)

  HOMINIDS (Part III of IV)

  HOMINIDS (Conclusion)

  BLACK REFLECTION

  DRIVING A BARGAIN

  INELUCTABLE

  SHED SKIN

  2003

  ON THE SURFACE

  COME ALL YE FAITHFUL

  IMMORTALITY

  RELATIVITY

  2004

  KATA BINDU

  MIKEYS

  THE RIGHT’S TOUGH

  THE STANLEY CUP CAPER

  2005

  THE EAGLE HAS LANDED

  IDENTITY THEFT

  2006

  FLASHES

  BIDING TIME

  ROLLBACK (Part I of IV)

  ROLLBACK (Part II of IV)

  ROLLBACK (Part III of IV)

  ROLLBACK (Conclusion)

  2008

  EMAILS FROM THE FUTURE

  WAKE (Part I of IV)

  WAKE (Part II of IV)

  WAKE (Part III of IV)

  WAKE (Conclusion)

  2009

  WEBMIND SAYS HELLO

  2010

  THE TRANSFORMED MAN

  2012

  TRIGGERS (Part I of IV)

  TRIGGERS (Part II of IV)

  TRIGGERS (Part III of IV)

  TRIGGERS (Conclusion)

  2015

  LOOKING FOR GORDO

  2019

  MOTIVE

  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.

  Robert Sawyer grew up in Toronto, the son of two university professors. He credits two of his favorite shows from the late 1960s and early 1970s, Search and Star Trek, with teaching him some of the fundamentals of the science-fiction craft. Sawyer was obsessed with outer space from a young age, and he vividly remembers watching the televised Apollo missions. He claims to have watched the 1968 classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey 25 times. He began writing science fiction in a high school club, which he co-founded, NASFA (Northview Academy Association of Science Fiction Addicts). Sawyer graduated in 1982 from the Radio and Television Arts Program at Ryerson University, where he later worked as an instructor.

  Sawyer’s first published book, Golden Fleece, is an adaptation of short stories that had previously appeared in the science-fiction magazine Amazing Stories. This book won the Aurora Award for the best Canadian science-fiction novel in English. In the early 1990s Sawyer went on to publish his inventive Quintaglio Ascension trilogy, about a world of intelligent dinosaurs. His 1995 award winning The Terminal Experiment confirmed his place as a major international science-fiction writer.

  A prolific writer, Sawyer has published more than 10 novels, plus two trilogies. Reviewers praise Sawyer for his concise prose, which has been compared to that of the science-fiction master Isaac Asimov. Like many science fiction-writers, Sawyer welcomes the opportunities his chosen genre provides for exploring ideas. The first book of his Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, Hominids, is set in a near-future society, in which a quantum computing experiment brings a Neanderthal scientist from a parallel Earth to ours. His 2006 Mindscan explores the possibility of transferring human consciousness into a mechanical body, and the ensuing ethical, legal, and societal ramifications.

  A passionate advocate for science fiction, Sawyer teaches creative writing and appears frequently in the media to discuss his genre. He prefers the label “philosophical fiction,” and in no way sees himself as a predictor of the future. His mission statement for his writing is “To combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.”

  BIOLOG Jay Kay Klein

  Becoming a science fiction writer seemed impractical to Robert J. Sawyer. He was all set to study paleontology when it occured to him there are only a couple of dozen persons in the world making a living digging up dinosaurs, whereas there are a couple of hundred science fiction writers.

  Raised in Toronto, Rob decided to pursue entirely practical paths towards being a writer and eventually a full-time science fiction career. He enrolled in Toronto’s Ryerson Poly-technical Institute for a degree in radio and television arts, with emphasis on script writing. After finishing his B.A., he taught a year at Ryerson and worked briefly at an SF book store.

  Rob started selling articles on computers and high tech to Canadian magazines and newspapers, and doing writing assignments for high-tech companies and government offices. SF stories sold very slowly while he gained experience in handling fiction and especially characterization. His first sale was to a planetarium in Rochester, NY, which adapted a short story as part of a starshow. After putting together enough money from sales to support himself for a while, he turned to writing SF full time. Now, he mostly turns down outside assignments even though they pay ten to twenty times as much per word as SF short stories.

  The real money lies in novels. Golden Fleece appeared in 1990; Far-Seer, 1992; Fossil Hunter, 1993; Foreigner and End of an Era, 1994. Three more books are scheduled for 1996.

  Rob has a dual approach to science fiction. One is business-oriented. The other is a to provide a serious underpinning for whatever he writes. To make a living, he decided he must become his own publicist, since publishers often fail to do enough. At his own expense, he sent bound galleys of his first book to reviewers. This resulted in a sale to the SF Book Club and a three-book contract from a Japanese publisher. He does his own press releases, with overwhelming response in newspapers, magazines, and TV interviews. He has done over 30 readings in Canada and the United States at conferences, bookstores, and libraries.

  Rob insists that his writing be as scientifically accurate as possible, and pivot around some real problem. He notes that too much of today’s SF is commercial fiction written to fill slots in publishers’ schedules, and often poorly done and juvenile. Endless, open-ended series of mindless adventure fill him with disgust. He tries to make each of his own stories an individual, polished gem, often written around a core mystery. Settings are Canadian.

  Rob notes that SF no longer is exclusively an American phenomenon, but is published worldwide. His best word of advice to an aspiring writer is to aim for excellence rather than turning out shoddy work because he can get away with it sometimes. In the long run, you’ll do better.

  Originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Mid-December 1994

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  Novels

  Golden Fleece (1990)

  Far-Seer (1992)

  Fossil Hunter (1993)

  Foreigner (1994)

  End of an Era (1994)

  The Terminal Experiment (1995)

  Starplex (1996)

  Frameshift (1997)

  Illegal Alien (1997)

  Factoring Humanity (1998)

  Flashforward (1999)

  Calculating God (2000)

  Hominids (2002)

  Humans (2003)

  Hybrids (2003)

  Mindscan (2005)

  Rollback (2007)

  Wake (2009)

  Watch (2010)