“Driving A Bargain,” copyright 2002 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Be VERY Afraid!: More Tales of Horror, edited by Edo van Belkom, Tundra Books, Toronto, 2002.
“Flashes,” copyright 2006 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in FutureShocks, edited by Lou Anders, Roc Books, New York, January 2006.
“Relativity,” copyright 2003 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Men Writing Science Fiction as Women, edited by Mike Resnick, DAW Books, New York, November 2003.
“Biding Time,” copyright 2006 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Slipstreams, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and John Heifers, DAW Books, New York, May 2006.
“E-Mails from the Future,” copyright 2008 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in The Globe and Mails Report on Business Magazine, Toronto, January 2008.
Books by Robert J. Sawyer
NOVELS
Golden Fleece
End of an Era
The Terminal Experiment
Starplex
Frameshift
Illegal Alien
Factoring Flumanity
Flashforward
Calculating God
Mindscan
Rollback
The Neanderthal Parallax
Hominids
Humans
Flybrids
The Quintaglio Ascension
Far-Seer
Fossil Hunter
Foreigner
COLLECTIONS
Iterations (introduction by James Alan Gardner)
Relativity (introduction by Mike Resnick)
Identity Theft (introduction by Robert Charles Wilson)
ANTHOLOGIES
Tesseracts 6 (with Carolyn Clink)
Crossing the Line (with David Skene-Melvin)
Over the Edge (with Peter Sellers)
Boarding the Enterprise (with David Gerrold)
Identity Theft
AND OTHER STORIES
Robert J. Sawyer
Introduction by Robert Charles Wilson
Copyright © 2008 Robert J. Sawyer Introduction © 2008 Robert Charles Wilson Copyright for individual stories featured on page 286
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Sawyer, Robert J
Identity theft and other stories / Robert J. Sawyer ; introduction by Robert Charles Wilson.
ISBN 978-0-88995-411-3 (bound).—ISBN 978-0-88995-412-0 (pbk.)
I. Title.
PS8587.A389835I34 2008 C813'.54 C2007-905117-0
United States Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Sawyer, Robert J.
Identity theft and other stories / introduction by Robert Charles Wilson ; Robert J. Sawyer.
[240] p.: cm.
ISBN: 9780889954120 (pbk.)
1. Short stories, Canadian - 20th century. I. Wilson, Robert Charles. II. Title. 813.0108971 dc22 PR9199.3S248Id 2008