Robert J. Sawyer

Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. But they all have escaped from Hobson's computer into the web-and one of them is a killer.

The Web is alive! The new SF thriller from the author of FLASHFORWARD.

It calls itself Webmind. An emerging consciousness within the World Wide Web, it has befriended Caitlin Decter and grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind has also come to the attention of WATCH, the secret United States government agency that monitors the Internet for any potential threats-and wants it purged from cyberspace.

A Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author joins Ace with a stunning new science fiction epic. Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math, and blind. When she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality she perceives the landscape of the World Wide Web-where she makes contact with a mysterious consciousness existing only in cyberspace.

An acclaimed high concept SF novel, the basis for a new SF series, destined to be the new LOST.

Robert J. Sawyer - called the dean of Canadian science fiction" by the Ottawa Citizen and "just about the best science fiction writer out there these days" by the Rocky Mountain News - won the World Science Fiction Society's Hugo Award for his novel Hominids and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's Nebula Award for his novel The Terminal Experiment. Iterations is Sawyer's first short story collection, gathering 22 fantastic tales from such diverse places as Amazing Stories, the Village Voice, the Globe & Mail, and Nature. Among them, these stories have: Won the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award ("the Aurora") Won the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award, Been nominated for the Hugo, Nominated for and the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award, Been performed on CBC Radio, and Appeared in best-of-the-year collections. In Iterations, you'll: See Sherlock Holmes solve the problem of the missing aliens, Find out what really happened to the bones of Peking Man, Learn the truth about the alligators in the sewers of New York, Visit a future Toronto sealed inside a steel dome, Encounter pure evil aboard the Russian space station Mir, Follow a serial killer as his consciousness is transferred into a Tyrannosaurus rex, and Meet a man doomed to commit murder over and over again because of the pressures of Canadian publishing. Each story is accompanied by Sawyer's own commentary, and the collection is introduced by award-winning SF author James Alan Gardner.