Iterations and other stories (collection)

“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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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Sawyer, Robert J

[Iterations]

Iterations and other stories / Robert J. Sawyer ; introduction by James Alan Gardner.

Previously published under title: Iterations.

ISBN 978-0-88995-416-8

I. Title. II. Title: Iterations.

PS8587.A389835I84 2008 C813’,54 C2008-900365-9

United States Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Sawyer, Robert J.

Iterations / Robert J. Sawyer ; introduction by James Alan Gardner.

Originally published: Kingston : Quarry Press, 2002.

[240] p.: cm.

ISBN-13: 9780889954168 (pbk.)

1. Canadian short stories – 20th century. I. Gardner, James Alan. II. Title.

813.54 dc22 PR9199.3.S2533It 2008