They continued to hold hands as we walked down the space station’s long corridor, heading toward the sleek and graceful ship that would take us to our new home.
Publication History
“The Hand You’re Dealt” copyright 1997 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Free Space, edited by Brad Linaweaver and Edward E. Kramer, Tor Books, New York, July 1997.
“Peking Man” copyright 1996 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published as the lead story in Dark Destiny 111: Children of Dracula, edited by Edward E. Kramer, White Wolf, Atlanta, October 1996.
“Iterations” copyright 2000 by Robert). Sawyer. First published as the lead story in TransVersions: An Anthology of New Fantastic Literature, Paper Orchid Press, November 2000.
“Gator” copyright 1997 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published as the lead story in Urban Nightmares, edited by Josepha Sherman and Keith R A. DeCandido, Baen Books, New York, November 1997.
“The Blue Planet” copyright 1999 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published as “Mars Reacts!” in The Globe and Maiclass="underline" Canada’s National Newspaper, Saturday, December 11, 1999.
“Wiping Out” copyright 2000 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Guardsmen of Tomorrow, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff, DAW Books, New York, November 2000.
“Uphill Climb” copyright 1987 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Amazing Stories, March 1987.
“Last But Not Least” copyright 2000 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Be Afraid!: Tales of Horror, edited by Edo van Belkom, Tundra Books, Toronto, September 2000.
“If I’m Here, Imagine Where They Sent My Luggage” copyright 1981 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in The Village Voice: The Weekly Newspaper of New Tork, 14-20 January 1981; reprinted by Story Cards, Washington, D.C., in 1987.
“Where the Heart Is” copyright 1992 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Ark of Ice: Canadian Futurefiction, edited by Lesley Choyce, Pottersfield Press, Nova Scotia, 1992.
“Lost in the Mail” copyright 1995 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in TransVersions 3, October 1995.
“Just Like Old Times” copyright 1993 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of Speculative Writing, Summer 1993; commissioned for and also published as the lead story in Dinosaur Fantastic, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg, DAW Books, New York, July 1993.
“The Contest” copyright 1980 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in White Wall Review 1980, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto; reprinted in 100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories, edited by Isaac Asimov, Terry Carr, and Martin Harry Greenberg, Doubleday, New York, 1984.
“Stream of Consciousness” copyright 1999 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in No Limits: Developing Scientific Literacy Using Science Fiction and Packing Fraction and Other Tales of Science and Imagination, both edited by Julie E. Czerneda, Trifolium Books, Toronto, 1999.
“Forever” copyright 1997 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Return of the Dinosaurs, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg, DAW Books, New York, May 1997.
“The Abdication of Pope Mary III” copyright 2000 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science, July 6, 2000.
“Star Light, Star Bright” copyright 2000 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Far Frontiers, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff, DAW Books, New York, September 2000.
“Above It All” copyright 1996 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Dante’s Disciples, edited by Peter Crowther and Edward E. Kramer, White Wolf, Atlanta, February 1996.
“Ours to Discover” copyright 1982 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in LeisureWays, November 1982.
“You See But You Do Not Observe” copyright 1995 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg, DAW Books, New York, February 1995. Authorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle.
“Fallen Angel” copyright 2000 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Strange Attraction, edited by Edward E. Kramer, ShadowLands Press, Centreville, Virginia, June 2000.
“The Shoulders of Giants” copyright 2000 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published as the lead story in Star Colonies edited by Martin H. Greenberg and John Heifers, DAW Books, New York, June 2000.
About the Author
Robert J. Sawyer is the author of the bestselling “Neanderthal Parallax” and “Quintaglio Ascension” trilogies plus ten standalone science-fiction novels. His Hominids won the Hugo Award for Best Novel of 2003, and his The Terminal Experiment won the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s Nebula Award for Best Novel of 1995.
Rob has also won eight Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards (“Auroras”)—four for year’s best novel, and four for year’s best short story. He’s also won three Japanese Seiun Awards for Best Foreign Novel of the Year (for End of an Era, Frameshift, and Illegal Alien), as well as the Collectors Award for Most Collectable Author of 2003, presented by Barry R. Levin Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature, the world’s leading SF rare-book dealer.
Rob edits the Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint for Red Deer Press; is profiled in Canadian Who’s Who; has been interviewed over 200 times on TV; and has given talks and readings at countless venues, including the Library of Congress and the Canadian embassy in Tokyo. Born in Ottawa in 1960, he now lives just west of Toronto, with poet Carolyn Clink, his wife of twenty years.
For more information about Rob and his work, visit his World Wide Web site—which was the first SF author site ever and now contains more than one million words of material—at www.sfwriter.com.
Novels by Robert J. Sawyer
Golden Fleece
Far-Seer
Fossil Hunter
Foreigner
End of an Era
The Terminal Experiment
Starplex
Frameshift
Illegal Alien
Factoring Humanity
Flashforward
Calculating God
Hominids
Humans
Hybrids
Short-Story Collection
Iterations
Anthologies
Tesseracts 6 (with Carolyn Clink)
Crossing the Line (with David Skene-Melvin)
Over the Edge (with Peter Sellers)
ITERATIONS
Robert J. Sawyer
Introduction by James Alan Gardner
Stories copyright © 2002 Robert J. Sawyer
Introduction copyright © 2002 James Alan Gardner
This edition published in 2008
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