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May 2002 SFWRITER.COM News from the ROBERT J Issue No. 19 May 2002 SFWRITER.COM News From The ROBERT J. SAWYER Web Site “Just about the best science-fiction writer out there these days”–Rocky Mountain News HOMINIDS he first new Robert J. that reality is accidentally Sawyer novel in two transferred to our universe, arriving years is out! Hominids – at the real-life Sudbury Neutrino Tvolume one in Rob’s “Neanderthal Observatory in Northern Ontario. Parallax” trilogy – is the lead hardcover SF title for May 2002 In researching the book, Sawyer from Tor Books, New York, the visited and consulted with just world’s largest science-fiction about every Neanderthal expert in publisher. the world. Hominids tells the story of an Hominids will be followed by alternate Earth where Humans in February 2003 and Neanderthals survived to the Hybrids in December 2003. Sawyer present day and we did not. Ponter is touring twelve cities to promote Boddit, a quantum physicist from the release of Hominids. Short-Story Collection out in Canada uarry Press of Kingston, Ontario – one of Q Canada’s top literary publishers – has just released the first-ever short-fiction collection by Robert J. Sawyer. Iterations gathers 22 stories by Sawyer, including the Hugo Award- finalist “The Hand You’re Dealt,” three Aurora Award-winners, and the Sherlock Holmes SF story “You See But You Do Not Observe,” which won France’s top SF award, Le Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire. This beautiful hardcover is available in bookstores across Canada and through www.sfwriter.com. WWW.SFWRITER.COM SFWRITER.COM Page 2 May 2002 SFWRITER.COM is published occasionally to spotlight news about Nebula Award-winning Canadian science- fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer. You can send email to Rob at [email protected], or write to him at: Robert J. Sawyer • 100 City Centre Drive • P.O. Box 2065 • Mississauga, Ontario, Canada • L5B 3C6 Praise for HOMINIDS Bookstore Alert obert J. Sawyer “Sawyer has carried the banner of Do you have all of these books has written the Asimovian SF into the 21st century. by Robert J. Sawyer in stock? “R most delightful Hominids is based in cutting-edge HARDCOVERS: book! Why can’t all authors who contemporary science, and Hominids (Tor, May 2002, 0-312- write about other cultures do this furnished at the same time with 87692-0). Rob’s latest novel! kind of rigorous in-depth research? touching human (and parahuman) Iterations (Quarry Press, Jan. 2002, Hominids takes sophisticated stories. Precise, detailed, and 1-55082-295-0). Short Stories paleoanthropological data, cutting- accomplished.” (available in Canada only). edge theoretical physics, and – Robert Charles Wilson, characters that will warm your MASS-MARKET PAPERBACKS: Philip K. Dick Award-winning author of heart, and mixes them into a The Chronoliths and Darwinia Calculating God (Tor, July 2001, 0- charming, witty, and provocative 812-58035-4). Hugo nominee! novel. Hominids is anthropological Flashforward (Tor, April 2000, fiction at its best.” “Hominids is a blend of physics, 0-812-58034-6). Locus bestseller! anthropology, and sociology that – W. Michael Gear & Kathleen Factoring Humanity (Tor, May 1999, snatches up the reader with a sharp 0-812-57129-0). Hugo nominee! O’Neal Gear, USA Today best- hook of a first sentence and just selling Authors of Raising Abel Illegal Alien (Ace, Jan. 1999, keeps gaining speed. Sawyer focuses 0-441-00592-6). Locus bestseller! on what really goes on inside Frameshift (Tor, November 1998, “Sawyer’s books – always rich in people – the love between his 0-812-57108-8). Hugo nominee! science, action, and profound characters is as simple as a first The Terminal Experiment thinking – never fail to surprise, glance and as multifarious as (HarperPrism, May 1995, delight, and cause us to transcend jealousy and want. Never is Sawyer 0-061-05310-4). Nebula winner! our ordinary thoughts. I’ve read afraid to reveal the emotions Crichton, Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, inherent in every connection; he TRADE PAPERBACKS: King, and Koontz – and Sawyer soars above the equations to End of an Era (Tor, Sept. 2001, 0- outdoes them all.” produce genuine artistry.” 312-87693-9). Seiun Award winner! Golden Fleece (Tor, Nov. 1999, – Clifford A. Pickover,, bestsellingbestselling – SF Site: The Home Page for 0-312-86865-0). Aurora winner! author of The ParadoxParadox of of God God Science Fiction and Fantasy Number-One Bestseller he paperback of Robert J. The Locus bestsellers’ list is drawn Sawyer’s Hugo Award- from data supplied by Amazon.com; nominated Calculating US bookstore chains B. Dalton, T Borders, Barnes and Noble, and God hit number one on the bestsellers’ list published by Locus: Waldenbooks; nineteen American The Newspaper of the Science SF specialty bookstores, and two #1 Fiction Field for June and July 2001. Canadian ones. Indeed, Locus noted that Calculating God “had a solid lead The paperback of Calculating God in the paperback category.” is already in its third printing. .
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