Robert J. Sawyer

A partir de la visita de un alienígena a un museo de la ciencia. empieza una insólita investigación que pretende demostrar la existencia de Dios. El paleontólogo Tom D. Jericó descarta, por principio, la intercesion divina en cualquier controversia cientifica, hasta el dia en que le descubren un cancer terminal y debe enfrentarse a su propia finitud. ¿Podra entonces sostener sus tesis racionalistas sobre la inexistencia del Creador?.

Robert Sawyer transforms a fascinating "what if" scenario into an exhilarating thriller combining physics, philosophy, murder, and suspense. At the CERN lab in Switzerland, a pair of scientists are about to turn on the world's most powerful supercollider and initiate the search for the Higgs boson, more popularly known as the "god particle," when something goes strangely awry. Everyone on the planet loses consciousness for two minutes, a calamity which results in death for many, but produces prophecy for others. During the mass blackout, those who survive get a detailed glimpse of themselves 20 years into the future. This vision causes pandemonium, as people with positive futures try to accelerate the process, while those with negative revelations either abandon hope or fight to change things at all costs. One of the scientists responsible for the event is mystified because he received no vision, until he submits to the awful realization that this means that he will die sometime within the next 20 years. The only hope for humanity may be to try to duplicate the experiment to get more answers about the future, though this is certain to cause more death and destruction in the present.

El equipo de investigación de Lloyd Simcoe y Theo Procopides está empleando el acelerador de partículas del laboratorio del CERN de Suiza en un proyecto secreto. Pero su experimento sale terriblemente mal y, durante un par de minutos, la conciencia de toda la raza humana es arrojada veinte años hacia el futuro. Mientras la humanidad debe restañar los catastroficos efectos inmediatos del experimento, las implicaciones mas serias tardan algo en aparecer. Aquellos que no recibieron visiones del porvenir tratan de descubrir como moriran. Otros buscan ya a sus futuros amantes. Lloyd debera superar la culpabilidad por haber provocado accidentalmente la muerte de la hija de su prometida, mientras Theo se ve atrapado en la investigacion de su propio asesinato. A medida que las verdaderas consecuencias de lo sucedido comienzan a hacerse claras, la presion para repetir el experimento aumenta sin cesar. Todos quieren un destello del futuro, una oportunidad para saltar y ser testigo de su exito... o para aprender a evitar sus errores. En esta novela, repleta del ingenio habitual de Sawyer, de sus des-cripciones y dialogos de alta escuela, de personajes perfectamente construidos y de un brillante sentido del ritmo, el autor demuestra que esta en su mejor momento.

Suddenly everyone in the world loses consciousness for two minutes. Planes fall from the sky, there are millions of car crashes, millions die. And when everyone comes round they have had a glimpse of their life in the future.When it awakes the world must live with the knowledge of what is to come.Some saw themselves in new relationships, some saw exciting new technologies, some saw the stuff of nightmares. Some, young and old alike, saw nothing at all ...A desperate search to find out what has happened begins. Does the mosaic of visions offer a clue?What did you see?Now the basis for the Channel 5 hit series FLASHFORWARD.

¿Qué ha de pensar un científico agnóstico si encuentra pruebas de que Dios existe y, además, se ha dedicado con saña a eliminar toda vida surgida en el universo? Un singular encuentro con extra-terrestres inteligentes que pone en duda la mayor parte de la ciencia y las creencias de la humanidad.

El equipo de investigación de Lloyd Simcoe y Theo Procopides está empleando el acelerador de partículas del laboratorio del CERN de Suiza en un proyecto secreto. Pero su experimento sale terriblemente mal y, durante un par de minutos, la conciencia de toda la raza humana es arrojada veinte años hacia el futuro.Mientras la humanidad debe restañar los catastroficos efectos inmediatos del experimento, las implicaciones mas serias tardan algo en aparecer. Aquellos que no recibieron visiones del porvenir tratan de descubrir como moriran. Otros buscan ya a sus futuros amantes. Lloyd debera superar la culpabilidad por haber provocado accidentalmente la muerte de la hija de su prometida, mientras Theo se ve atrapado en la investigacion de su propio asesinato.A medida que las verdaderas consecuencias de lo sucedido comienzan a hacerse claras, la presion para repetir el experimento aumenta sin cesar. Todos quieren un destello del futuro, una oportunidad para saltar y ser testigo de su exito... o para aprender a evitar sus errores.En esta novela, repleta del ingenio habitual de Sawyer, de sus des-cripciones y dialogos de alta escuela, de personajes perfectamente construidos y de un brillante sentido del ritmo, el autor demuestra que esta en su mejor momento.

Homínidos es el inicio de una prodigiosa exploración cultural, un nuevo tipo de ficción antropológica que centra sus mejores virtudes no sólo en la más actual ciencia moderna, sino, y sobre todo, en las complejas consecuencias culturales, humanas y antropologicas de un inesperado cruce de culturas.

En el año 2007 se detecta una señal procedente del espacio profundo. Misteriosos e ininteligibles flujos de datos son recibidos durante diez años. Entonces la señal se detiene.Heather Davis, profesora de la Universidad de Toronto, ha dedicado toda su carrera a descifrar el mensaje. Mientras, su vida personal ha sucumbido: una hija suicida, un matrimonio destrozado. Pero es ella quien finalmente descifra el mensaje. Descubre una sorprendente tecnologia nueva que puede abrirse paso a traves de las barreras del espacio y el tiempo, con la promesa de una nueva etapa en la evolucion humana. Parecen cercanos una capacidad de exploracion ilimitada... o el final de la raza humana.Factor de humanidad es una novela de implicaciones morales, tecnicas y sociologicas. Describe una forma de comuni-cacion con una civilizacion que supera hasta limites insospecha-dos a la nuestra, pero tambien es la historia de como se puede destruir una pareja por una mentira, y lo dificil que puede ser reconstruirla.

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 medico para descubrir que la aseguradora esta tomando muestras geneticas de sus clientes; o, cuando prosigue sus pesquisas, encontrando una cadena de asesinatos sin resolver cuyas victimas son personas aseguradas por la compñia...La conclusion puede ser terrible: ¿Acaso los adelantos cientificos que el mismo Pierre esta haciendo son empleados para incrementar los beneficios de las compañias aseguradoras? Y todo puede empeorar...

Robert J. Sawyer won the Hugo Award for Hominids, the first book in The Neanderthal Parallax trilogy.In Hominids, Sawyer introduced a character readers will never forget: Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel Earth who was whisked from his reality into ours by a quantum-computing experiment gone awry making him the ultimate stranger in a strange land.In both Hominids and its sequel, Humans, Sawyer showed us the Neanderthal version of Earth in loving detail a tour de force of world-building, a masterpiece of alternate history.Now, in Hybrids, Ponter Boddit and his Homo sapiens lover, geneticist Mary Vaughan, are torn between two worlds, struggling to find a way to make their star-crossed relationship work. Aided by banned Neanderthal technology, they plan to conceive the first hybrid child, a symbol of hope for the joining of their two versions of reality.But after an experiment shows that Marys religious faith something completely absent in Neanderthals is a quirk of the neurological wiring of Homo sapiens brains, Ponter and Mary must decide whether their child should be predisposed to atheism or belief. Meanwhile, as Marys Earth is dealing with a collapse of its planetary magnetic field, her boss, the enigmatic Jock Krieger, has turned envious eyes on the unspoiled Eden that is the Neanderthal world ...Hybrids is filled to bursting with Sawyers signature speculations about alternative ways of being human, exploding our preconceptions of morality and gender, of faith and love. His Neanderthal Parallax trilogy is a classic in the making, and here he brings it to a stunning, thought-provoking conclusion thats sure to make Hybrids one of the most controversial books of the year.Hybrids was a Spectrum Award (honoring works in science fiction, fantasy and horror which include positive explorations of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered characters, themes, or issues.) finalist.ROBERT J. SAWYER has won the Hugo, Nebula, John W. Campbell Memorial, Seiun, and Aurora Awards, all for best science fiction novel of the year. His novels include Golden Fleece, Rollback, Wake, and FlashForward (basis for the TV series).

Hominids won the Hugo Award for Best Novel of the Year!Hominids is a strong, stand-alone SF novel, but its also the first book of The Neanderthal Parallax, a trilogy that examines two unique species of people. They are alien to each other, yet bound together by the never-ending quest for knowledge and, beneath their differences, a common humanity. We are one of those species, the other is the Neanderthals of a parallel world where they, not Homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligence. In that world, Neanderthal civilization has reached heights of culture and science comparable to our own, but is very different in history, society, and philosophy.During a risky experiment deep in a mine in Canada, Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist, accidentally pierces the barrier between worlds and is transferred to our universe, where in the same mine another experiment is taking place. Hurt, but alive, he is almost immediately recognized as a Neanderthal, but only much later as a scientist. He is captured and studied, alone and bewildered, a stranger in a strange land. But Ponter is also befriended by a doctor and a physicist who share his questing intelligence and boundless enthusiasm for the worlds strangeness, and especially by geneticist Mary Vaughan, a lonely woman with whom he develops a special rapport.Meanwhile, Ponters partner, Adikor Huld, finds himself with a messy lab, a missing body, suspicious people all around, and an explosive murder trial that he cant possibly win because he has no idea what actually happened.Contact between humans and Neanderthals creates a relationship fraught with conflict, philosophical challenge, and threat to the existence of one species or the other or both but equally rich in boundless possibilities for cooperation and growth on many levels, from the practical to the esthetic to the scientific to the spiritual.ROBERT J. SAWYER has won the Hugo, Nebula, John W. Campbell Memorial, Seiun, and Aurora Awards, all for best science fiction novel of the year. His novels include Golden Fleece, Rollback, Wake, and FlashForward (basis for the TV series).

Robert J. Sawyer won the Hugo Award for Hominids, the first book in this series. He hits the peak of his powers in Humans, the second book of The Neanderthal Parallax, his trilogy about our world and a parallel one in which it was the Homo sapiens who died out and the Neanderthals who became the dominant intelligent species. This powerful idea allows Sawyer to examine some of the deeply rooted assumptions of contemporary human civilization dramatically, by confronting us with another civilization, just as morally valid, that had made other choices. In Humans, Neanderthal physicist Ponter Boddit, a character you will never forget, returns to our world and to his relationship with geneticist Mary Vaughan, as cultural exchanges between the two Earths begin.As we see daily life in another present-day world, radically different from ours, in the course of Sawyers fast-moving story, we experience the bursts of wonder and enlightenment that are the finest pleasures of science fiction. Humans is one of the best SF novels of the year, and The Neanderthal Parallax is an SF classic in the making.ROBERT J. SAWYER has won the Hugo, Nebula, John W. Campbell Memorial, Seiun, and Aurora Awards, all for best science fiction novel of the year. His novels include Golden Fleece, Rollback, Wake, and FlashForward (basis for the TV series).

The new novel by Canadas top Science Fiction writer In 2059 two very different groups have their minds uploaded into a quantum computer in Waterloo, Ontario.One group consists of astronauts preparing for Earths first interstellar voyage. The other? Convicted murderers, serving their sentences in a virtual-reality prison.But when disaster strikes, the astronauts and the prisoners must download back into physical reality and find a way to work together to save Earth from destruction.The Downloaded debuted in a six-month exclusive window as an Audible Original narrated by Academy Award-winner Brendan Fraser promoted by national TV and radio ad campaigns. This print edition is coming out immediately after Audibles exclusivity ends and is being supported by a six-city cross-Canada author book tour. "Robert J. Sawyers latest novel is a potent distillation of everything that makes science fiction so addictive. The Downloaded explores a broad swath of future history and absolutely sizzles with fascinating ideas. You want space travel, a ruined Earth, virtual worlds, a cast of relatable characters, and a glimpse into the labyrinth of human destiny? Look no further: this story has all that and more."Robert Charles Wilson, Hugo Award-winning author of Spin "In The Downloaded, Robert J. Sawyer proves hes not just a master of using science fiction to address social issues but also a master of devious plot twists and diverse character voices."James Alan Gardner, Theodore Sturgeon Award-winning author of Expendable "No one does the end of the world quite like Robert J. Sawyer. The Downloaded is a wicked-smart thrill ride from start to finish. The interview format brings genuine intimacy to this action-packed story that also raises questions about consciousness, society, and the very nature of humanity. I loved it."Sylvain Neuvel, bestselling author of Sleeping Giants "Robert J. Sawyer is well known for big-concept original SF and rigorous research. While The Downloaded continues in this vein, its also a wonderful demonstration of another aspect of this impressive author: his deep understanding ofand compassion forpeople, regardless of who or what they are, or even what they have done. Its a rare and potent humanity that elevates Sawyers work high above the rest."Julie E. Czerneda, Aurora Award-winning author of To Each This World "One of the best SF novels Ive read in years. The Downloaded is a tightly-written SF story that will hold your attention, but its more than just that. Sawyer has given us an advance look at a technology that we may have someday if were fortunate, but also a near-future world that we may get, too, and God help us if we do. The juxtaposition of the two makes this a fascinating tale."Allen Steele, Hugo Award-winning author of Coyote