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Rollback
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I just finished reading this and can recommend it without hesitation.
There are two main concepts that run through this book. The first is the discovery of a complex signal from a nearby star, Sigma Draconis. The second is the concept of "rolling back" the aging process. Both of these themes run through this book.
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Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax)
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Although Sawyer writes competently I gave it 2 stars for failure to live up to possibilities. Two humanoid societies interact after 40,000 or so years of separate development with differing histories, cultures, values, etc. What happens? We obsess about the characters and love lives of Mary (the human) and the Neantherthal (whatsisnameagain, he look... »
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Flashforward
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What would you do if you got a glimpse of your own personal future and it looked bleak? Try to change things, or accept that the future is unchangeable and make the best of it? In Flashforward, Nobel-hungry physicists conducting an unimaginably high-energy experiment accidentally induce a global consciousness shift. In an instant, everyone on Ea... »
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Calculating God
Creationists rarely find sympathy in the ranks of science fiction authors--or fans, for that matter. And while Robert J. Sawyer doesn't exactly make pea... »
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The Commons
This book contains a number of stories which were originally published in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, some of which were also collected in ... »
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Hybrids (Neanderthal Parallax)
Very disappointing - I waited a long time for all three of these to be in paperback so I could read them all together. They weren't anywhere close to as ... »
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Frameshift
There is a 50 percent chance that geneticist Pierre Tardivel is carrying the gene for Huntington's Disease, a fatal disorder. That knowledge drives Pierre... »
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End of An Era
End of An Era is disgraceful. Absolute junk.
Robert J. Sawyer combines aliens and dinosaurs. Right away, you see the problem. Dinosaurs are ... »
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