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About the Author
ROBERT J. SAWYER, a member of The Paleoanthropology Society, is the best-selling author of a dozen previous novels, including The Terminal Experiment, which won the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s Nebula Award for Best Novel of the Year; Starplex, which was both a Nebula and Hugo Award finalist; and Frameshift, Factoring Humanity, and Calculating God, all of which were also Hugo Award finalists.
Sawyer has won twenty-five national and international awards for his fiction, including an Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada, seven Aurora Awards (Canada’s top honor in science fiction), the Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award, and the top SF awards in France (Le Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire), twice in Japan (Seiun), and twice in Spain (Premio UPC de Ciencia Ficciôn); he’s also been nominated for the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award.
Maclean’s: Canada’s Weekly Newsmagazine says, “By any reckoning Sawyer is among the most successful Canadian authors ever.” He is profiled in Canadian Who’s Who, has been interviewed over 150 times on TV (including on Rivera Live with Geraldo Rivera), and has given talks and [444] readings at countless venues including the U.S. Library of Congress and the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo. He lives in Mississauga, Ontario (just west of Toronto), with Carolyn Clink, his wife of seventeen years.
For more about Rob Sawyer and his fiction—including a readers’ group discussion guide for this novel, and a preview of Humans, the forthcoming sequel—visit his World Wide Web site (called “the largest genre writer’s home page in existence” by Interzone) at www.sfwriter.com.
About the e-Book
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Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note: A -tal Tale
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty-one
Chapter Twenty-two
Chapter Twenty-three
Chapter Twenty-four
Chapter Twenty-five
Chapter Twenty-six
Chapter Twenty-seven
Chapter Twenty-eight
Chapter Twenty-nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-one
Chapter Thirty-two
Chapter Thirty-three
Chapter Thirty-four
Chapter Thirty-five
Chapter Thirty-six
Chapter Thirty-seven
Chapter Thirty-eight
Chapter Thirty-nine
Chapter Forty
Chapter Forty-one
Chapter Forty-two
Chapter Forty-three
Chapter Forty-four
Chapter Forty-five
Chapter Forty-six
Chapter Forty-seven
Appendix
Further Reading
About the Author
About the e-Book