Robert J. Sawyer Books In Order
Book links take you to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.Publication Order of Neanderthal Parallax Books
Hominids | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Humans | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hybrids | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Quintaglio Ascension Books
Far-Seer | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fossil Hunter | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Foreigner | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of WWW Books
Wake | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Watch | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wonder | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Golden Fleece | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
End of an Era | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Terminal Experiment | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Starplex | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Frameshift | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Illegal Alien | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Factoring Humanity | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flashforward | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Calculating God | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mindscan | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rollback | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Triggers | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Red Planet Blues | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Quantum Night | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Oppenheimer Alternative | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Iterations and Other Stories | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Identity Theft and Other Stories | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Earth | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Space | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Time | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Hand You're Dealt (in Iterations) | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fallen Angel | (2000) | |
Shed Skin | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Tesseracts Books
Publication Order of Archonate Universe Books
Black Brillion | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gist Hunter and Other Stories | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Majestrum | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Commons | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Template | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Quartet & Triptych | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Other | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Yellow Cabochon | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
9 Tales of Henghis Hapthorn | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Meaning of Luff and Other Stories | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Compleat Guth Bandar | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Of Whimsies & Noubles | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Epiphanies | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Wizard's Henchman | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Smart Pop Books
Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stepping through the Stargate: Science, Archaeology and the Military in Stargate SG1 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What Would Sipowicz Do? Race, Rights and Redemption in NYPD Blue | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Anthology at the End of the Universe: Leading Science Fiction Authors on Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Finding Serenity: Anti-heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives on the H. G. Wells Classic | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Navigating the Golden Compass: Religion, Science & Daemonology in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alias Assumed: Sex, Lies And SD-6 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Farscape Forever! Sex, Drugs and Killer Muppets | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flirting With Pride And Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives On The Original Chick Lit Masterpiece | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth and Religion in C. S. Lewis' Chronicles | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
King Kong Is Back! An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous Ape! | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Totally Charmed | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mapping the World of Harry Potter | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man from Krypton: A Closer Look at Superman | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Star Wars on Trial | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Battle for Azeroth | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Getting Lost | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Boarding the Enterprise | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
James Bond in the 21st Century: Why We Still Need 007 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Investigating CSI: Inside the Crime Labs of Las Vegas, Miami and New York | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
So Say We All: An Unauthorized Collection of Thoughts and Opinions on Battlestar Galactica | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Earth's Last Days | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Literary Cash: Unauthorized Writings Inspired by the Legendary Johnny Cash | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Webslinger: Unauthorized Essays On Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Halo Effect: An Unauthorized Look at the Most Successful Video Game of All Time | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mind-Rain | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Through the Wardrobe | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A New Dawn: Your Favorite Authors on Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Secrets of the Dragon Riders: Your Favorite Authors on Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle: Completely Unauthorized | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Secrets of the Dragon Riders | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
You Do Not Talk About Fight Club: I Am Jack's Completely Unauthorized Essay Collection | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Dante's Disciples | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Northern Stars | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Time Machines | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Over the Edge | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unnatural Selection of Darwinian Nightmares | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Guardsmen of Tomorrow | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Have This Nifty Idea | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Boarding the Enterprise | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Federations | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Distant Early Warnings | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Campus Chills | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Second Time Travel Megapack | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Enigma Front | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Future Visions | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Enigma Front: The Monster Within | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Enigma Front: ONWARD | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Author Robert J. Sawyer was born on April 29, 1960 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He was the child of a pair of university professors, and was raised in Toronto.
“Search” and “Star Trek”, two of Sawyer’s favorite shows, are two things that he credits for teaching him a few of the fundamentals of the science fiction genre. This is something that made him have a tendency to put references to pop culture in his books; his liking of “Planet of the Apes”, “Six Million Dollar Man”, and “Star Trek” (the original) is evident in the books.
He was obsessed with outer space when he was very young and he still remembers watching the Apollo missions on television. Sawyer says that he has watched Stanley Kubrick’s classic film “2001: A Space Odyssey” a total of 25 times.
His work is from the mystery and science fiction genres of fiction. He is one of the most successful Canadian authors and one of Canada’s best known writers.
Sawyer started writing science fiction in a club in high school that he co-founded, that was called Northview Academy Association of Science Fiction Addicts. He graduated from Ryerson University’s Radio and Television Arts Program, and would work there as a teacher.
Sawyer is the author of the “Neanderthal Parallax” series, the “WWW” series, and the Quintaglio Ascension” series.
Sawyer has won many awards in his career, some of which include: three Hugo awards (in 2003), a John W. Campbell Memorial Award (in 2006), and a Nebula Award (in 1995). “Hominids” won a Hugo, for best novel, in the year 2003, and he was nominated for the same award again, in 2001 for “Calculating God” and in 2010, for the novel “Wake”. He is one of only seven authors in the entire world, and the only Canadian to win these three major awards. His first published book, which were short stories he adapted that got published in Amazing Stories, won and Aurora Award for the best Canadian science fiction novel in English.
His novel “Flashforward” was adapted for television by David S. Goyer and Brannon Braga in the year 2009. It lasted for only one season.
“Hominids” is the first novel in the “Neanderthal Parallax” series and was released in the year 2002. On a parallel Earth, some Neanderthals have put together a very different civilization. Ponter Boddit (who is a Neanderthal physicist) travels on accident from the universe he is in, into an underground research facility in Canada.
Fortunately for him, a group of scientists are there to warmly receive and identify him. One of the members, is a paleo-anthropologist who is named Mary Vaughan. To get past the language barrier and a lot of other things, is a mini-computer (known as Companion) which is implanted in every Neanderthal.
A lot of things are hard to grasp for Ponter in this world. Things like rape, permanent sexuality, and the world being overpopulated. It cannot help the person he was living with and fellow scientist, named Adikor Huld, when he is charged with killing Ponter.
Some like the way that this book does not just set the readers up for the next books in the series or take a long time to get going. You get pulled right into the action, it stands on its own but does open the door for another story. Fans of the novel enjoyed the thought experiment that Sawyer gives the readers. The premise of parallel universes crossing is something that is very fun; the neanderthal’s world is described vividly and is way different from Earth’s. These differences are explored and fleshed out quite a bit, something that makes the book that much better.
“Humans” is the second novel in the “Neanderthal Parallax” series and was released in the year 2003. Cultural exchanges begin between the Neanderthal ran world and the Homo sapien controlled one. Ponter goes back to Mary in our world to continue their relationship.
The first time, he went through the opened portal by accident, but this time, does so on purpose.
The book is a great example of Sawyer’s writing; it is a book of pure fiction that is backed by what would appear to be sound science. That is just the outer shell of the plot the novel has. Fans of the novel found themselves so caught up in the story, they want to read everything by this author. It is more than a story that compels readers, it is a great forum for social commentary.
“Hybrids” is the third novel in the “Neanderthal Parallax” series and was released in the year 2003. Ponter and Mary, who are torn between their two worlds and are still trying to make their relationship work out. They use some banned Neanderthal technology to try to make the very first hybrid child. It will serve as a hope symbol, as they join their versions of reality.
An experiment is done that shows the religious faith that Mary has is a quirk found in Homo spaiens brains’ neurological wiring. Neanderthals are completely devoid of this religious faith, and the pair must figure out if they want their child to be exposed to belief or atheism. Mary’s version of Earth deals with the planetary magnetic field collapsing, Jock Krieger (Mary’s enigmatic boss) is starting to eye the Neanderthal world, which is a bit of an unspoiled paradise.
Fans of the novel enjoy the way Neanderthals do things are discussed and thought about throughout these books. It is all examined and picked apart, before all being put together again. It is all sophisticated and there are no simple or easy answers to be had. As always, you have to think things through (like decisions that people make and their motives) when you read one of Sawyer’s books.
“Calculating God”
Outside of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, an alien’s shuttle craft lands. An alien with two arms and six legs, says that he wants to see a paleontologist in perfect English.
It would look like Earth, the home planet of the alien and other alien species on the mother ship experienced the very same five disastrous events right around the same time. One of these would be the meteor that took out the dinosaurs. Both of the alien races think that this is proof of God’s existence; as in he is been messing with evolution of the life forms on each planet.
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