Robert J. Sawyer

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1990
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Neanderthal Parallax

1 - Hominids (May-2002)
2 - Humans (Mar-2003)
3 - Hybrids (Sep-2003)

The Quintaglio Ascension

1 - Far-Seer (Jun-1992)
2 - Fossil Hunter (May-1993)
3 - Foreigner (1994)

WWW

1 - Wake (Apr-2009)
2 - Watch (Apr-2010)
3 - Wonder (Apr-2011)

Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • Golden Fleece

    Aboard Argo, a colonization ship bound for Eta Cephei IV, people are very close - there''s no other choice. So when Aaron Rossman''s ex-wife dies in what seems to be a bizarre accident, everyone offers their sympathy, politely keeping their suspic...

  • Far-Seer

    The Quintaglio Ascension - 1

    In a world where the age of dinosaurs never ended, the young saurian Afsan becomes apprentice to the court astrologer, when he discovers something about the Face of God that will test his faith and may save his world from disaster. Original....

  • Fossil Hunter

    The Quintaglio Ascension - 2

    Toroca, the son of Afsan the Far-Seer and a geologist searching for the rare metals needed to take his species to the stars, discovers an artifact that may reveal the true origin of the dinosaurs. Original....

  • Foreigner

    The Quintaglio Ascension - 3

    In Far-Seer and Fossil Hunter, we met the Quintaglios, a race of intelligent dinosaurs from Earth and learned of the threat to their very existence. Now they must quickly advance from a culture equivalent to our Renaissance to the point where they ca...

  • End of an Era

    Paleontologist Brandon Thackeray uses his time-ship to travel back to the age of the dinosaurs and discovers the truth about what happened to them, a truth beyond the scope of any scientific theory. Original....

  • The Terminal Experiment

    Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. But they all have escaped from Hobson's computer into the web-and one of them is a killer....

  • Starplex

    Twenty years after the discovery of artificial wormholes launches Earth space exploration to unforeseeable heights, Starplex Director Keith Lansing investigates a mysterious vessel that soon threatens the station with intergalactic war. Original....

  • Frameshift

    This is the story of Pierre Tardivel, a scientist, and his complex battle against deadly illness, an ex-Nazi war criminal still hiding in the U.S., a crooked insurance company, and a plot to make Pierre and his wife the victims of a bizarre genetic e...

  • Illegal Alien

    When a disabled spaceship enters the Earth's atmosphere, fear is quickly replaced with awe. Seven members of the incredibly advanced Tosok race are welcomed by the world with open arms, and the people of Earth put their best face forward. Then a popu...



  • Factoring Humanity

    In 2007, a signal is detected coming from deep space. Mysterious, unintelligible data streams in for ten years. Then the signal stops. Heather Davis, a professor at the University of Toronto, has devoted her career to deciphering this message, whi...

  • Flashforward

    A scientific experiment begins, and as the button is pressed, the unexpected occurs: everyone in the world goes to sleep for a few moments while everyone's consciousness is catapulted more than twenty years into the future. At the end of those moment...

  • Calculating God

    An alien shuttle craft lands outside a museum. Out pops a six-legged, two-armed alien named Hollus who says, "Take me to your paleontologist." The paleontologist, Tom Jericho, helps Hollus investigate Earth's evolutionary history. It seems that Earth...

  • Iterations


    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 n...

  • Hominids

    The Neanderthal Parallax - 1

    Hominids examines two unique species of people. We are one of those species; the other is the Neanderthals of a parallel world where they became the dominant intelligence. The Neanderthal civilization has reached heights of culture and science compar...

  • Humans

    The Neanderthal Parallax - 2

    Robert J. Sawyer, the award--winning and bestselling writer, hits the peak of his powers in Humans, the second book of The Neanderthal Parallax, his trilogy about our world and another parallel one in which it was the Homo sapiens who died out and th...

  • Hybrids

    The Neanderthal Parallax - 3

    In Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer introduced a character readers will never forget: Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel Earth who was whisked from his reality into ours by a quantum-computing experiment gone awry -- making him the ulti...

  • Relativity

    The Aurora Award-winning collection from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer of eight short stories, four speeches, eleven articles, and all twelve of his “On Writing” columns from On Spec magazine. Featuring a foreword ...

  • Mindscan

    Jake Sullivan has cheated death: he's discarded his IM doomed biological body and copied his consciousness into an android form. The new Jake soon finds love, something that eluded him when he was encased in flesh: he falls for the android version of...

  • Rollback

    Dr. Sarah Halifax decoded the first-ever radio transmission received from aliens thirty-eight years ago. Now, a second message is received, and Sarah, now eighty-seven, may hold the key to deciphering this one, too ... if she lives long enough. A we...



  • Identity Theft: And Other Stories

    This new collection by the man Anne McCaffrey calls "an absolutely marvelous writer" includes Hugo Award nominee "Shed Skin," Nebula Award nominee "Identity Theft," and Aurora Award winner "Ineluctable." In these pages, you'll discover the dark s...

  • Iterations: And Other Stories

    Iterations is Sawyer's first short story collection, gathering 22 fantastic tales from such diverse places as Amazing Stories, the Village Voice, the Globe and Mail, and Nature.

    Among them, these stories have:

    • Won the Canadi...

  • Biding Time

    in Penguin Book of Crime Stories

    International bestselling author Peter Robinson turns his razor-sharp instinct for crime writing to this unique anthology featuring the cream of crime fiction. With a selection of 15 stories featuring established bestsellers and new voices, The Pengu...

  • Wake

    WWW - 1

    A Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author joins Ace with a stunning new science fiction epic. Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math, and blind. When she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality she percei...

  • Distant Early Warnings

    2010 Aurora Award nominee

    The 21st Century Belongs to Canada.

    On a per capita basis, Canada has more world-class science-fiction writers than any country on Earth. Collected here are the best recent works by Hugo Award winners Spi...

  • Watch

    WWW - 2

    Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math-and blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind. But Caitlin's brain long ago co-opted her primary visual cortex to help her navig...

  • Wonder

    WWW - 3

    Webmind-the vast consciousness that spontaneously emerged from the infrastructure of the World Wide Web-has proven its worth to humanity by aiding in everything from curing cancer to easing international tensions. But the brass at the Pentagon see We...

  • Triggers

    On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin's bullet strikes President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to the hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life. At the same hospital, researcher Dr. Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a devi...

  • Galaxy's Edge Magazine

    A magazine of speculative fiction. Edited by Mike Resnick. Stories by Robert J. Sawyer, Kij Johnson, Nick DiChario, Lou J. Berger Jack McDevitt, Alex Shvartsman, Stephen Leigh, Robert T. Jeschonek and James Patrick Kelly. Columns by Barry Malzberg an...

  • Red Planet Blues

    Robert J. Sawyer, the author of such novels as Triggers and The WWW Trilogy, presents a noir mystery expanded from his Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated novella “Identity Theft” and his Aurora Award-winning short story “Biding Time,” and set on...



  • Time

    Welcome to Time: Complete Short Fiction Volume 3 – thirteen short stories, each with an introduction giving context, anecdotes, and a glimpse into the life of Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer. This is the third and final vo...

  • Quantum Night

    Now, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author explores the thin line between good and evil that every human being is capable of crossing… Experimental psychologist Jim Marchuk has developed a flawless technique for identifying the previously und...

  • Humanity 2.0

    What will it mean to be human in the future? How will we evolve in order to reach the stars?Fifteen short stories collected in this book examine how interstellar flight might change humanity itself. Will we choose to upload our minds into a singulari...

  • Earth

    Welcome to Earth: Complete Short Fiction Volume 1 " eighteen short stories, each with an introduction giving context, anecdotes, and a glimpse into the life of Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer. This is the first of three volume...

  • Space

    Welcome to Space: Complete Short Fiction Volume 2 " thirteen short stories, each with an introduction giving context, anecdotes, and a glimpse into the life of Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer. This is the second of three volum...

  • The Oppenheimer Alternative

    Science fiction fans will devour this smart speculative tale.—Publishers WeeklyA nail-biting new science fiction thriller from Robert J. Sawyer; the all-time worldwide leader in award-wins as a science fiction or fantasy novelist.Well worth rea...

  • The Downloaded

    The new novel by Canada's top Science Fiction writer In 2059 two very different groups have their minds uploaded into a quantum computer in Waterloo, Ontario. One group consists of astronauts preparing for Earth's first interstellar voy...

Award-Winning Books by Robert J. Sawyer

Hominids
2003 Hugo Award -- Novel
Mindscan
2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel
The Terminal Experiment
1996 Nebula Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert J. Sawyer has published 36 books.

Robert J. Sawyer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Downloaded, was published in May 2024.

The first book by Robert J. Sawyer, Golden Fleece, was published in November 1990.

Yes. Robert J. Sawyer has 3 series.
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