Identity Theft

This is a collection of short fiction by Sawyer, who is far better known for his novels. Most of them first appeared in original anthologies, though a few are from the more traditional genre magazines and other sources. Most of them are straight science fiction stories, though a couple would qualify......more

One Hardboiled Scifi novella (which had got me hooked on to the author, after I had read it in 'Down These Dark Spaceways') and sixteen lucid, thoughtful, simultaneouly despairing and uplifting, warm and cold short stories. That's not all. Every story (like the previous collection 'Iterations') cont......more

Interesting, to read some of Sawyer's early short stories. His writing has certainly changed over the years, but this was a refreshing and exciting set of stories, even if I'd read some of them in other places.......more

This is the first time I've read any short fiction by Robert Sawyer. I agree with many others that I prefer his novels. I've most recently read the WWW trilogy and enjoyed it although I did not think it was as good as other authors. I thought the best story in this collection was "Flashes". This was......more

I am making my way through Robert J. Sawyer's works and find that some of the short stories are the seeds of some of his novels. Some are also extensions which I found interesting. I guess I would have been more impressed if I had not already read the novels. Still, the stories were enjoyable enough......more