Robert J. Sawyer

Born 1960

From Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · Nationality: Canada, United States · Writes fiction

Quotes

“The intelligent person must abhor violence.”
Foreigner, Chapter 26
“Adjectives modify nouns, adverbs modify verbs, advertisers modify the truth.”
End of an Era, p. 47
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” / I shook my head. “Have you ever noticed how many once-in-a-lifetime opportunities come at the end of a person’s life? Count me out.”
End of an Era, p. 111
“You humans seem to have a profound capacity for ignoring obvious evidence.”
Calculating God, Chapter 2
“The Lord works in mysterious ways. Mrs. Lansbury had always said that. Everything happens for a purpose. / Such bull. Such unmitigated crap. I felt my stomach knotting. Cancer didn’t happen for any purpose.”
Calculating God, Chapter 24

Books by Robert J. Sawyer in order

Books by Robert J. Sawyer in the order they were published, from Golden Fleece (1990) to Oppenheimer Alternative (2020).