New Releases by Robert j. Sawyer

Robert J. Sawyer''s Hominids, the first volume of his bestselling Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, won the 2003 Hugo Award, and its sequel, Humans, was a 2004 Hugo nominee. Now he''s back with a pulse-pounding, mind-expanding standalone novel, rich with his signature philosophical and ethical speculations, all grounded in cutting-edge science. Jake Sullivan has cheated death: he''s discarded his doomed biological body and copied his consciousness into an android form. The new Jake soon finds love, something that eluded him when he was encased in flesh: he falls for the android version of Karen, a woman rediscovering all the joys of life now that she''s no longer constrained by a worn-out body either. But suddenly Karen''s son sues her, claiming that by uploading into an immortal body, she has done him out of his inheritance. Even worse, the original version of Jake, consigned to die on the far side of the moon, has taken hostages there, demanding the return of his rights of personhood. In the courtroom and on the lunar surface, the future of uploaded humanity hangs in the balance. Mindscan is vintage Sawyer -- a feast for the mind and the heart.

Letters from the Flesh, the second book by new SF novelist Marcos Donnelly, sets a breathtaking pace, tackling far-reaching themes like evolution, fundamentalism, quantum realities, and the very core of human nature. The novel is a fictional collection of two sets of letters united by a single secret, but separated by two thousand years: - the first-century epistles of a non-physical alien entrapped in the body of St. Paul the Apostle, accidentally triggering the birth of Christianity; - the emails of microbiologist Dr. Lillian Oberland, a young college adjunct writing to her cousin Michael, a public school biology teacher facing the wrath of Creationist parents. The letters reveal a relationship far deeper than passing coincidences-and signal that cousin Michael''s unexpected conversion to fundamentalism might have interspecies consequences that cross the millennia.

A twenty-first-century scientist sacrifices her family life to decipher the strange signals coming from interstellar space, messages that show her how to build an extraordinary machine that allows one to travel via the mind.

Human geneticist Mary Vaughan and Neanderthal physicist Ponter Boddit struggle to make their relationship work and conceive a hybrid child, while Mary''s Earth faces disaster and her boss plots against the Neanderthal world.

Neanderthal physicist Ponder Boddit resumes his relationship with geneticist Mary Vaughn as cultural and scientific exchanges begin between the two parallel Earths--our own, and one in which Neanderthals became the dominant species.

In a parallel world in which Neanderthals, rather than homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligent species, a dangerous scientific experiment traps a Neanderthal physicist on Earth.

Archaeologist Brandon Thackery and his rival Miles ''Klicks'' Jordan fulfill a dinosaur lover''s dream with history''s first time-travel jaunt to the late Mesozoic. Hoping to solve the extinction mystery, they find Earth''s gravity is only half its 21st century value and dinosaurs that behave very strangely. Could the slimey blue creatures from Mars have something to do with both?

In the near future, an alien craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. A six-legged, two-armed alien named Hollus relates to paleontologist Tom Jericho that the Earth, Hollus''s home planet, and the planet of another alien species all experienced the same five cataclysmic events that prove the existence of God.

Pour Frank Nobilio, le conseiller scientifique du président des Etats-Unis, le premier contact entre l''humanité et une race extraterrestre est assurément un succès : les Tosoks, malgré leur aspect déroutant, sont amicaux et tout disposés à faire bénéficier les hommes de leur avance technique. Quant à ces derniers, ils ont réussi à passer outre un bien légitime désarroi face aux caractéristiques morphologiques de leurs visiteurs pour réserver à ceux-ci le meilleur accueil possible. Mais une nuit, un des savants de l''entourage des aliens est assassiné dans des conditions atroces, et tous les indices semblent accuser Hask, l''un des Tosoks. Bientôt arrêté, emprisonné et traduit en jugement, Hask risque d''être exécuté à moins que Frank et Dale, son avocat, ne parviennent à établir son innocence. Leur tâche s''annonce d''autant plus difficile que leur client se montre peu coopératif, laissant entendre que l''enjeu de ce procès dépasse de loin le cadre étroit de la justice humaine... Un roman époustouflant - et souvent drôle - qui fait cohabiter très intelligemment la thématique classique du " premier contact " et le thriller juridique haletant à la John Grisham !

El cincuenta por ciento de posibilidades de haber desarrollado una enfermedad degenerativa incurable ya era bastante malo, pero Pierre Tardevel, investigador del Proyecto Genoma humano, descubrió que todo podia empeorar... con la amenaza de un grupo de nazis, por ejemplo; o tratando de conseguir un seguro médico para descubrir que la aseguradora está tomando muestras genéticas de sus clientes; o, cuando prosigue sus pesquisas, encontrando una cadena de asesinatos sin resolver cuyas víctimas son personas aseguradas por la compñia... La conclusión puede ser terrible: ¿Acaso los adelantos científicos que el mismo Pierre está haciendo son empleados para incrementar los beneficios de las compañías aseguradoras? Y todo puede empeorar.....

Aboard Argo, a colonization ship bound for Eta Cephei IV, people are very close--there''s no other choice. So when Aaron Rossman''s ex-wife dies in what seems to be a bizarre accident, everyone offers their sympathy, politely keeping their suspicions of suicide to themselves. But Aaron cannot simply accept her death. He must know the truth: Was it an accident, or did she commit suicide? When Aaron discovers the truth behind her death, he is faced with a terrible secret--a secret that could cost him his life.

The acclaimed author of "Far-Seer" and "End of an Era" embarks on a fantastic journey. A series of mysterious, artificial wormholes have brought the far reaches of space immediately close. But is the Earth ready for who--or what--the wormholes may bring?