Full text of "Identity Theft" novella online

My short-story collection Identity Theft and Other Stories from Red Deer Press is currently one of five finalists for the Aurora Award for Best Long Form Work in English.

In honour of that, I'm pleased to offer the Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated title novella, "Identity Theft," for free during the remainder of the voting period. You can read it right here.

All of the other nominees in this category are excellent, too -- and three of them are by my writing students:

• Impossibilia, Douglas Smith (PS Publishing)
  
• Defining Diana, Hayden Trenholm (Bundoran Press)
  
• Marseguro, Edward Willett (DAW Books)

So, one way or another, the odds are great that I'm going to be a happy man on Friday, August 7, 2009, when the Aurora Awards are presented at a banquet at this year's World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal.

Praise for Identity Theft and Other Stories:

"At every opportunity, Sawyer forces his readers to think while holding their attention with ingenious premises and superlative craftsmanship." —Booklist

"A collection of great stories; highly entertaining and thought-provoking. This book has something for almost any science-fiction fan." —Quill & Quire

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Identity Theft and Other Stories contents

In honour of its nomination for the 2009 Aurora Award -- Canada's top SF award -- I'm going to post some excerpts from the my collection Identity Theft and Other Stories over the next little while, starting with this list of the contents:

• Introduction by Robert Charles Wilson.
  
  
• Individual story introductions by Robert J. Sawyer.
  
  
• "Identity Theft," copyright 2005 by Robert  J. Sawyer. First published in Down These Dark Spaceways, edited by Mike Resnick, Science Fiction Book Club, New York, May 2005.
  
  • Hugo, Nebula, and Aurora Award finalist; Premio UPC winner
  
  
• "Come All Ye Faithful," copyright 2003 by Robert  J. Sawyer. First published in Space Inc., edited by Julie E. Czerneda, DAW Books, New York, July 2003.
  
  
• "Immortality," copyright 2003 by Robert  J. Sawyer. First published in Janis Ian's Stars, edited by Janis Ian and Mike Resnick, DAW Books, New York, August 2003.
  
  
• "Ineluctable," copyright 2002 by Robert  J. Sawyer. First published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2002.
  
  • Aurora Award winner
  
  
• "Shed Skin," copyright 2002 by Robert  J. Sawyer. First published in The Bakka Anthology, edited by Kristen Pederson Chew, The Bakka Collection, Toronto, December 2002; first U.S. publication in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January-February 2004.
  
  • Analog "Analytical Laboratory" Award winner; Hugo Award finalist
  
  
• "The Stanley Cup Caper," copyright 2003 by Robert  J. Sawyer. First published in The Toronto Star, Sunday, August 24, 2003.
  
  
• "On The Surface," copyright 2003 by Robert  J. Sawyer. First published in Future Wars, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff, DAW Books, New York, April 2003.
  
  
• "The Eagle Has Landed," copyright 2005 by Robert  J. Sawyer. First published in I, Alien, edited by Mike Resnick, DAW Books, New York, April 2005.
  
  
• "Mikeys," copyright 2004 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Space Stations, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers, DAW Books, New York, March 2004.
  • Aurora Award finalist
  
  
• "The Good Doctor," copyright 1989 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Amazing Stories, January 1989.
  
  
• "The Right's Tough," copyright 2004 by Robert  J. Sawyer. First published in Visions of Liberty, edited by Mark Tier and Martin H. Greenberg, DAW Books, New York, July 2004.
  
  
• "Kata Bindu," copyright 2004 by Robert  J. Sawyer. First published in Microcosms, edited by Gregory Benford, DAW Books, New York, January 2004.
  
  
• "Driving A Bargain," copyright 2002 by Robert  J. Sawyer. First published in Be VERY Afraid!: More Tales of Horror, edited by Edo van Belkom, Tundra Books, Toronto, 2002.
  
  
• "Flashes," copyright 2006 by Robert  J. Sawyer. First published in FutureShocks, edited by Lou Anders, Roc Books, New York, January 2006.
  
  
• "Relativity," copyright 2003 by Robert  J. Sawyer. First published in Men Writing Science Fiction as Women, edited by Mike Resnick, DAW Books, New York, November 2003.
  
  
• "Biding Time," copyright 2006 by Robert  J. Sawyer. First published in Slipstreams, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers, DAW Books, New York, May 2006.
  • Aurora Award winner
  
  
• "E-Mails from the Future," copyright 2008 by Robert  J. Sawyer. First published in The Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine, Toronto, January 2008.

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Aurora Award nominees announced

The nominees for the 2009 Aurora Awards were announced this morning. My short-story collection Identity Theft and Other Stories is one of five finalists for the Best Long Form Work in English Award this year.

In the Long Form category, very unusually, three of the five nominees are short-story collections. Also, three of the five nominees are my writing students: Douglas Smith, Hayden Trenholm, and Edward Willett. Go team!

This is my 37th Aurora Award nomination to date; I've previously won the award 10 times -- that makes me both the biggest winner and the biggest loser on the English side of the awards. :)

The full list of nominees is here.

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