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Quintaglios:
Far-Seer
Fossil Hunter
Foreigner

Quintaglio Trilogy: Far-Seer | Fossil Hunter | Foreigner

Other Novels: Rollback | Mindscan | Calculating God | Flashforward | Factoring Humanity | Illegal Alien | Frameshift | Starplex | Terminal Experiment | End of an Era | Golden Fleece

Short Story Collections: Iterations | Relativity | Identity Theft and Other Stories (2008)

You can get most of my novels from your favorite bookstore, or you can order autographed copies directly from me.

Rollback | Mindscan | Identity Theft | Hybrids | Humans | Hominids | Iterations | End of an Era | Calculating God | Golden Fleece | Flashforward | Factoring Humanity | Illegal Alien | Frameshift | Starplex | The Terminal Experiment | Far-Seer | Fossil Hunter | Foreigner

• What's a Robert J. Sawyer science fiction novel like?
• Rob's short fiction collections
• Rob's aborted Star Trek novel
• Rob's aborted novel in the Star Wars universe
• Anthologies edited by Robert J. Sawyer
  
• Short Fiction by Robert J. Sawyer
  

"A new novel by Robert J. Sawyer is always a major event."

— Quill & Quire

"Robert J. Sawyer's novels — intelligent, literate, and immensely readable explorations of the biggest ideas there are — prove that science fiction is now literature."

— The Halifax Chronicle-Herald

"Here are a few of the things I like about Robert J. Sawyer: His novels are fast moving and tightly constructed; his characters are developed so that I care what happens to them; the science in his science fiction is intrinsic to the plot but not so arcane that readers have to be nuclear physicists to understand it; and he doesn't imitate others or himself."

— Rocky Mountain News

There's a specific entry for each of my science fiction novels farther down this page. For each one, I've provided:

• opening chapters
• cover blurb
• reviews
• cover art from around the world
• annotated dedications and acknowledgments
• a list of working titles

Most novels also have Reading Group guides, with questions and discussion topics for readers' circles, student groups, and book clubs.

Many of my novels are used in the classroom.

Outlines and Synopses for some of my novels.

I've provided a guide to the recurring themes in my science fiction.

  Rollback  

A novel of human rejuvenation and alien communication ... of bridging decades and light-years.

Rob's latest novel!

"Rollback is a reminder of why Sawyer is one of our most highly regarded writers of speculative fiction, able to handle the demands of the heart and the cosmos with equal skill." — Quill & Quire

More About Rollback

  Mindscan  

The Future of Uploaded Humanity Hangs in the Balance.

Winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award!

"The novel's near-future setting — a socially liberal Canada that provides a haven from fundamentalist Christian-controlled America — may excite as much interest as the Mindscan concept." — Publishers Weekly

More About Mindscan

  Identity Theft and Other Stories  

More Fantastic Stories Written by Canada's Premiere Science Fiction Author

New in simultaneous hardcover and trade paperback release, May 2008!

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 secret of the only priest on Mars, revisit H.G. Wells's Morlocks, and learn what really happens when aliens beam us the Encyclopedia Galactica.

More About Identity Theft

  Hybrids  

The Startling Conclusion of The Neanderthal Parallax Trilogy.

Starred Review in Booklist!

"Hybrids is a novel of complex ideas wrapped in a tightly plotted, viscerally satisfying narrative, exciting and thought-provoking. It's the sort of book one wants to read at least twice: once for the headlong thrill of the story, and again to fully absorb the implicaitons of Sawyer's ideas." — Quill & Quire

More About Hybrids

  Humans  

Two Earths, One Destiny.

Canadian National Bestseller!

"The biggest job of science fiction is to portray the Other. To help us imagine the strange and see the familiar in eerie new ways. Nobody explores this territory more boldly than Robert Sawyer." — David Brin

More About Humans

  Hominids  

Discover what it means to be human.

Hugo Award Winner!

"An amazing journey. One of those rare page-turners where the reader regrets turning to the last page. Sawyer writes good books — and good science fiction." — The Edmonton Journal

More About Hominids

  Iterations and Other Stories  

Fantastic Stories Written by Canada's Premiere Science Fiction Author

New trade paperback edition, March 2008!

We sell the original Quarry Press hardcover edition here!

"These excellent funny, sad, thought-provoking short stories prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that no one comes close to Robert J. Sawyer's ability to explore and present a collection of truly cool ideas." — Tanya Huff, author of Blood Price

More About Iterations

  End of an Era  

War of the Worlds meets The Time Machine.

Seiun Award Winner!

"It's not too much to say that this is one of the most accomplished science fiction novels of the last ten years." — Quill & Quire

More About End of an Era

  Calculating God  

Did God create the universe? The aliens think they can prove it!

Hugo Award finalist!

"Exciting and emotional. Sawyer smoothly combines ethical questions and comical dialogue in a highly absorbing tale." — Booklist

More About Calculating God

  Golden Fleece  

A high-tech game of cat-and-mouse between a murderous computer and a starship engineer.

Aurora Award winner!

"How good is Robert J. Sawyer's book? A friend of mine — an English professor — used to ask, whenever he saw me, `Why are you still writing that spaceship stuff?' Now I can answer. Because this is possible." — Orson Scott Card in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

More About Golden Fleece

  Flashforward  

A physics experiment goes awry, causing the consciousness of everyone on Earth to jump ahead twenty-one years for a period of two minutes.

Winner of Europe's top science fiction award!

"This first-rate, philosophical journey, a terrific example of idea-driven science fiction, should have wide appeal." — Publishers Weekly (starred review, denoting a book of exceptional merit)

More About Flashforward

  Factoring Humanity  

A near-future philosophical science fiction story of first contact, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence.

Hugo and Aurora Award Finalist!

"I loved it. May you also." — Analog Science Fiction & Fact

More About Factoring Humanity

  Illegal Alien  

A courtroom drama with an extraterrestrial defendant.

Arthur Ellis and Aurora Award Finalist!

"The best Canadian mystery of 1997." — The Globe and Mail

More About Illegal Alien

  Frameshift  

A science fiction thriller set against the backdrop of the Human Genome Project.

Hugo Finalist! Seiun Winner!

A selection of the Science Fiction Book Club

"Gripping; highly recommended." — Library Journal

More About Frameshift

  Starplex  

The wormholes are open. Discovery awaits.

Hugo and Nebula Award Finalist!

A selection of the Science Fiction Book Club
Serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact

"Here, at last, is an ambitious attempt to exploit the possibilities that the science fiction genre is capable of." — The Toronto Star

More About Starplex

  The Terminal Experiment  

A scientist discovers proof for the existence of the human soul.

Nebula Award Winner!

"A terrific mix of science, technological derring-do and murder. A great story; a crackerjack novel." — The Globe and Mail

More About The Terminal Experiment

  Far-Seer  

(The Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy, Volume 1)

An allegory about Galileo on a planet of intelligent dinosaurs.

Homer Award Winner!

"A tour de force. Vastly enjoyable, beautifully realized." — Asimov's Science Fiction

More About Far-Seer

  Fossil Hunter  

(The Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy, Volume 2)

The story of the dinosaurian equivalent of Darwin.

Homer Award Winner!

"Brilliant. Although obviously aimed at the science fiction crowd, it deserves a much wider readership." — Books in Canada

More About Fossil Hunter

  Foreigner  

(The Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy, Volume 3)

An alien counterpart of Sigmund Freud psychoanalyzes his race's equivalent of Galileo.

"Robert J. Sawyer deserves a round of vigorous applause." — Analog Science Fiction & Fact

More About Foreigner

  More Good Reading  

Opening Chapters index
Cover Art index
Cover Blurb index
Review Excerpts index

Reading Group guides

Dedications and Acknowledgments index
"About the Author" pages from each novel

Recurring Themes in Rob's novels

Rob's short-story collection Iterations
A Sneak Peek at Identity Theft and Other Stories, Rob's next collection
Rob's collection of Stories, Speeches, and Articles Relativity
Rob's aborted Star Trek novel
Rob's aborted Star Wars novel
Anthologies edited by Robert J. Sawyer
Short Fiction by Robert J. Sawyer

Some fun jokes about Rob's novels