Series: Short story collection
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0889953031
Pages: 303 pages
Publisher: Red Deer Press
Price: $16.95
Reader Rating: 10 out of 10
Votes: 1
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0889953031
Pages: 303 pages
Publisher: Red Deer Press
Price: $16.95
Reader Rating: 10 out of 10
Votes: 1
Description: From Booklist
Canada's leading sf author has been penning acclaimed novels and editing anthologies since the early 1980s, but not until now has he produced a collection of his superlative, often award-winning, short stories. His fans will be gratified to find many of his favorite themes amply represented here, from evolution gone awry to sentient dinosaurs to the perilous loopholes created by quantum physics. In "Peking Man," the real reason for the mysterious disappearance of Peking Man's fossil remains is revealed: some Peking people were vampires. In "Gator," Sawyer spins a wry variation on the familiar urban legend of alligators running loose in New York's sewer system. In "Iterations," a publisher finds a doorway to parallel universes that allows him to systematically eliminate murderous versions of himself, though at the risk of becoming his own victim. Sawyer has a gift for casting jarringly original ideas in lucid, sharp-edged prose that mainstream-fiction as well as sf readers should appreciate. Carl Hays
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