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Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

And Wolfram knows about cellular automata?” “Oh, my goodness, yes,” said Anna. “He wrote a book you ...

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The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel—which is to say it was...

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He had a collection of science-fiction films on DVD and Blu-ray discs, and although he said he’d see...

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Mr. Lockery—my biology teacher—says if dinosaurs were magically brought forward in time today, we’d ...

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All right,” he said. “Since you asked, Webmind is an emergent quantum-computational system based on ...

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George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future i...

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When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is ...

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Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' w...

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I am part of a minority that is deeply misunderstood. People have very confused ideas about us. Many...

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I get tired of hearing some science-fiction fans saying that characterization isn't important in SF....

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You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat ...

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All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily...

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It's possible that there is a guiding intelligence in our universe. I don't see a lot of personal ev...

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¨Kayla replied, ´And we---or the p-zeds, at any rate---copy indiscriminately, without reflection. An...

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Gone. and it was completely. Everyone I'd every known, every place I'd ever been. My Mother. My fath...

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It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote th...

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That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunch...

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Not darkness, for that implies an understanding of light. Not silence, for that suggests a familiari...

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If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least f...

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There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And...

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Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itsel...

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Robert J. Sawyer

Writer

Born: 1960-04-29

Died: N/A

Robert James Sawyer (born 29 April 1960) is a Canadian science fiction writer, dubbed "the dean of Canadian science fiction" by the Ottawa Citizen in 1999. He describes himself as a "hard science-fiction writer." His work often delves into metaphysics, à la Arthur C. Clarke, and philosophy; he very much comes from the school that says science fiction is the literature of ideas.More