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