Your taxing representation,
Jock
“Software licenses are perhaps the only product besides half-eaten food, underwear and toothbrushes, which can’t be resold.”—Computer scientist Jordan Pollack
To: Robert J. Sawyer
From: Big Name Author Multimedia Agency
Date: February 14, 2018, 12:02 p.m. EST
Subject: And speaking of taxes …
I always forget about taxes when thinking about life up there in the Great Green-Now-ln-Lots-of-Places North. I saw that piece on the GlobeSunStar site (hey, remember printed newspapers—man, I’m showing my age!) about your tax-freedom day now coming so late in the year that it coincides with your Thanksgiving. Guess that finally gives you guys a real reason to celebrate that holiday, you Pilgrimless plagiarists, you. Hey, maybe we should launch an intellectual property suit over that! I mean, maybe McWendy’s should—it’s their holiday now.
Yours in literature,
Jock
P.S.: By the way, did I ever tell you how much I love the new novel? Man, if it were still possible to get people to actually buy intellectual property, instead of copying it for free, I bet we could have sold a ton. Ah, well, at least you’ve got the Canada Council for the Arts up there, until it gets outlawed as an unfair subsidy, and I know its juries love science fiction … don’t they? Hey, shouldn’t I be getting a cut of your grants? No, no, Rob, put that meat cleaver down … :)
“If you cannot protect what you own, you don’t own anything.”—Jack Valenti, President of the (defunct) Motion Picture Association of America
About the Author
Robert J. Sawyer is one of only seven writers in history to win all three of the worlds top awards for best science fiction novel of the year: the Hugo (which he won for Hominids), the Nebula (which he won for The Terminal Experiment), and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (which he won for Mindscan); the other winners of all three are David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke, Joe Haldeman, Frederik Pohl, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Connie Willis.
In total, Rob has won forty-one national and international awards for his fiction, including ten Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards (“Auroras”), three Japanese Seiun awards for Best Foreign Novel of the Year, and the Premio UPC de Ciencia Fictión, the world’s largest cash prize for SF, which he’s also won three times. In addition, Rob has won the Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award, the Analytical Laboratory award from Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine, and the Crime Writers of Canadas Arthur Ellis Award, all for Best Short Story of the Year. He’s also won the Collectors Award for Most Collectable Author of the Year, as selected by the clientele of Barry R. Levin Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature, the world’s leading SF rare-book dealer, and the Galaxy Award—Chinas top honor in SF—for Most Popular Foreign Author. In addition, he’s received an honorary doctorate from Laurentian University and the Alumni Award of Distinction from Ryerson University.
Rob’s books are top-ten national mainstream bestsellers in Canada, and have hit number one on the bestsellers’ list published by Locus, the American trade journal of the SF field. He edits the acclaimed Robert J. Sawyer Books science-fiction imprint for Fitzhenry & Whiteside; is a frequent TV guest, with over two hundred appearances to his credit; and has been keynote speaker at many science, technology, and business conferences.
Rob, who lives in Mississauga, Ontario, with his wife Carolyn, was the first SF author to have a web site, and that site has now grown to contain more than a million words of text. Please visit it at sfwriter.com.
Robert J. Sawyer Books
Rob Sawyer edits the Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint for Fitzhenry & Whiteside, a line of cutting-edge, thematically rich science-fiction books, including:
Letters from the Flesh by Marcos Donnelly
Getting Near the End by Andrew Weiner
Rogue Harvest by Danita Maslan
The Engine of Recall by Karl Schroeder
Sailing Time’s Ocean by Terence M. Green
A Small and Remarkable Life by Nick DiChario
Birthstones by Phyllis Gotlieb
The Commons by Matthew Hughes
Valley of Day-Glo by Nick DiChario
The Savage Humanists edited by Fiona Kelleghan
For more information, see robertjsawyerbooks.com.
Copyright for Individual Stories
Introduction copyright 2008 by Robert Charles Wilson.
Individual story introductions copyright 2008 by Robert J. Sawyer.
“Identity Theft,” copyright 2005 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Down These Dark Spaceways, edited by Mike Resnick, Science Fiction Book Club, New York, May 2005.
“Come All Ye Faithful,” copyright 2003 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Space Inc., edited by Julie E. Czerneda, DAW Books, New York, July 2003.
“Immortality,” copyright 2003 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Janis Ians Stars, edited by Janis Ian and Mike Resnick, DAW Books, New York, August 2003.
“Ineluctable,” copyright 2002 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2002.
“Shed Skin,” copyright 2002 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in The Bakka Anthology, edited by Kristen Pederson Chew, The Bakka Collection, Toronto, December 2002; first U.S. publication in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January-February 2004.
“The Stanley Cup Caper,” copyright 2003 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in The Toronto Star, Sunday, August 24, 2003.
“On The Surface,” copyright 2003 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Future Wars, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff, DAW Books, New York, April 2003.
“The Eagle Has Landed,” copyright 2005 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in I, Alien, edited by Mike Resnick, DAW Books, New York, April 2005.
“Mikeys,” copyright 2004 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Space Stations, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and John Heifers, DAW Books, New York, March 2004.
“The Good Doctor,” copyright 1989 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Amazing Stories, January 1989.
“The Right’s Tough,” copyright 2004 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Visions of Liberty, edited by Mark Tier and Martin H. Greenberg, DAW Books, New York, July 2004.
“Kata Bindu,” copyright 2004 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Microcosms, edited by Gregory Benford, DAW Books, New York, January 2004.