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LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2017

2017 AURORA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

Robert J. Sawyer has proven himself to be "a writer of boundless confidence and bold scientific extrapolation" (The New York Times). Now, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author explores the thin line between good and evil that every human being is capable of crossing...

Experimental psychologist Jim Marchuk has developed a flawless technique for identifying the previously undetected psychopaths lurking everywhere in society. But while being cross-examined about his breakthrough in court, Jim is shocked to discover that he has lost his memories of six months of his life from twenty years previously--a dark time during which he himself committed heinous acts.

Jim is reunited with Kayla Huron, his forgotten girlfriend from his lost period and now a quantum physicist who has made a stunning discovery about the nature of human consciousness. As a rising tide of violence and hate sweeps across the globe, the psychologist and the physicist combine forces in a race against time to see if they can do the impossible--change human nature--before the entire world descends into darkness.

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368 pages
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English
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Penguin Canada
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Jan. 10 2017
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13.06 x 2.34 x 20.32 cm
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0735233640
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978-0735233645
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Maclean's fiction bestseller
Longlisted for Canada Reads 2017

"Cracking open a new Robert J. Sawyer book is like getting a gift from a friend who visits all the strange and undiscovered places in the world. You can't wait to see what he's going to amaze you with this time." --John Scalzi, Hugo Award-winning author of Lock In

"Robert J. Sawyer explores the intersection between big ideas and real people." --Robert Charles Wilson, Hugo Award-winning author of The Affinities

"Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Sawyer's latest work is a fast-moving, mind-stretching exploration of the nature of personality and consciousness." --Publisher's Weekly (STARRED REVIEW)

About the Author

ROBERT J. SAWYER lives in Toronto. He has won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, as well as the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for mystery fiction. The ABC TV series FLASHforward was based on his novel of the same name. Visit him on the Web at www.sfwriter.com, facebook.com/RobertJSawyer, and twitter.com/RobertJSawyer. The author lives in Mississauga, Ontario.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Canada (Jan. 10 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0735233640
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0735233645
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 331 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.06 x 2.34 x 20.32 cm

Best Sellers Rank: #484,987 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,118 in Genetic Engineering Science Fiction (Books)
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Robert J. Sawyer is one of only eight writers ever to win all three of the world’s top awards for best science-fiction novel of the year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He has also won the Robert A. Heinlein Award, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, and the Hal Clement Memorial Award; the top SF awards in China, Japan, France, and Spain; and a record-setting sixteen Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards (“Auroras”).

Rob’s novel FlashForward was the basis for the ABC TV series of the same name, and he was a scriptwriter for that program. He also scripted the two-part finale for the popular web series Star Trek Continues.

He is a Member of the Order of Canada, the highest honor bestowed by the Canadian government, as well as the Order of Ontario, the highest honor given by his home province; he was also one of the initial inductees into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

Rob lives just outside Toronto.His website and blog are at sfwriter.com, and on Facebook, Twitter, and Patreon he’s RobertJSawyer.

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Sandra

Great book.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 11, 2023

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I really liked this book it was a good read. I will be ordering other Robert Sawyer books

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 3, 2020

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Not as much as Sci-Fi, but more as an insight into a new emerging religion, progressivism. It shed the cocoon of ideology it was in 1960s-1990s and become a full fledged faith, where heretics are burned, saints canonised and sinners absolved or damned.

Cultural Marxists or progressives strive to classify people (easier to put them into re-education camps that way). Marxists of old did it based on wealth. Modern ones do it based on gender, race, ethnicity and wealth. In Canada already, you can commit the very same crime and depending on your group you will receive a very different punishment.

Protagonist of the novel, a tenured professor earning 140K a year, absolves his sins of wealth by donating to Africa. He also strongly believes that murdering unborn children is OK, but executing murdering psychopaths is not. He also abhors canadians refusing to admit their guilt for random crimes against indigenous women, committed thousands kms from where they live. Systemic racism, you see. Genocide.

So he comes up with a marxist dream come true, he can now classify people via science into 3 groups. Zombies, i.e. "simple" folks, easily misled to vote for Satan Harper or Saint Trudeau. Second group are psychopaths, leading these simpletons into the wastes of "conservatism and capitalism" and third group are smart and noble progressives.

And to right the wrongs of the world, this white knight decides to brainwash the population of Earth without asking them (when did marxists ever asked if anyone wants to live in their utopia), even if there is a chance that they will all die in the process.

Happy end. Science converts all psychopaths (including Trump and Putin) into progressives with conscience.

Anyway, a good way to look into how this cancer, metastasizing into our society from academia, thinks and functions.

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ted archibald

An excellent read. I will re-read in a few months.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 29, 2022

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So much to absorb. And so many other writers to investigate. Rob is my favourite sf writer. I own most of his work in paperback and will be re-reading shortly.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 3, 2018

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This book did not sit well with me. My first version of this review started at 5 stars with the header: Great glorious gobs of hooey. Then I dropped the rating to 3 stars, and now 1. Three human personality types decided by binary programming is just...trying too hard to save an idea that should have been discarded. How could Sawyer have held onto the idea long enough to complete writing a book? There’s a huge bibliography of suggested reading at the end, but it’s obvious that Sawyer either didn’t digest it or chose to ignore it. The urges to help the group, to be popular, to blend with the group, to follow rules, and the ability/requirement to respond to another’s joy or suffering, are all seperate conditions. But not in this book. There are asertions woven into his three-state morality personalities idea as dumb as if he wrote a book on sexuality and gave homosexuals an incredible fashion sense that they lost completely whenever they desired hetero sex. Then there’s crowd behaviour that mysteriously spreads between Canadian cities, that we’re expecting to be explained, but which turns out to be merely a forced unbelievable huge coincidence for plot development. Once in a while I keep thinking about a book or movie afterwards. This is not a book that improves with recall.

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I have to admit some disappointment with his latest

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 13, 2016

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I've been a fan of Robert Sawyer's novels for quite a few years. I think I've read most of them. I have to admit some disappointment with his latest. Usually, I enjoy the "info dumps" about science that he works into his novels. This time, however, they were a little forced, and I felt like the author was intruding at times.
Another issue concerned some of the dialogue exchanges, they seemed awkward, a little too "pat," and often lacked conflict and realism.
Overall, however, reading Quantum Night felt like a jet flight to a vacation destination, mostly smooth but with some turbulence along the way leaving you a bit disheveled but happy in the end.

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David Gunnar

Philosophical Science Fiction; Required Reading

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 19, 2016

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Robert J. Sawyer cements his position as the preeminent writer of philosophical science fiction. Who else would combine theory of mind with quantum theory with philosophy? Who else could?

Damn, it just hit me that this is a book that a friend who died last year would have loved, and it is very sad that he didn't get to read it. Have already lent the book to another friend - who's now considering suggesting it to his (mostly philosophy non-fiction) book club.

Fair warning, there are some unpleasant descriptions of (hu)man's inhumanity to (hu)man that would (or at least should) shock you - including one right at the beginning of the book - but they are necessary, and unfortunately in several cases are not fictional.

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Almost worth the effort required.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 23, 2017

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Interesting, particularly in light of present world events but there are enough ideas here for several books written for the general public. Concepts are complicated, not enough character development to keep us trying to follow the plot because we care about the people.

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Tom Siklosi

Phsycoligical Thriller

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 21, 2016

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Great read. It takes place in my hometown so naturally I was surprised, then as I read more the story itself got me turning the pages! Great read from a great author!

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PJ Online

Cracking read, don't give up when the science gets heavy!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 3, 2016

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An absolutely cracking start to this with the trial interactions getting you going and booing the prosecutor!

The science is a bit heavy in places, but most is simplified and not the whole story, although it "feels" to be absolute truth in the way it is presented. So don't try and classify yourself based on the types presented! It extends Sawyers exploration into consciousness as some of his earlier works have done with this presenting theories and citing additional reading at the end.

The characters are engaging and the atmosphere generated is great, drawing you in and compelling you to read on and learn about consciousness. If nothing else, read this for the trial at the start!

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Jez

Good start but dislikeable premise

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 6, 2017

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Not a great fan of his style but if the story is good that can be forgotten. Here moral issues are clumsily pushed around for plot convenience. And the main conceit is fundamentally elitist: the world is made up of some people that are ok, some that are not, and a majority that are mindlessly neither. We are expected to identify with those that are ok, and pity those who are neither. A bit like looking around in a bus and assuming you are the only one with thoughts because you cant tell what others are thinking. Please. If you read this, don't get seduced by that awful idea. To be fair though I did read it all the way to the totally end. Kept thinking there had to be more to it. This is because the start is quite compelling: the memory loss, mystery solving, gap filling is good. But then I really disliked the premise and hoped at least there would be more depth to its treatment. Sawyer could have explored it and pondered how people so different interact and relate, but instead his neithers are basic plot fodder, and he even has the protagonist kill one in a rather off-hand and incidental way. You might like this book if you like feeling superior to others. It's psychological in that it is about the brain and behaviour, but it is not a psychological thriller, which implies tension, adventure and twists.

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Mrs W

Another hit

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 29, 2016

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Really enjoyed it although not my favourite of sawyers (that has to be the www trilogy). Had me gripped from the beginning although I struggled with the physics I understood the philosophy and psychology enough to make up for it. My husband incidentally is a physicist so he was the other way around and enjoyed it just as much.

Quite thought provoking and you can't help but try and categorise yourself. Can't help but feel it was an easy way to flatter and inflate the ego of almost any reader- if this is your type of book them you are most likely a quick ;-)

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Halon

Brilliant.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 29, 2016

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Selling this for £2.99 is ridiculous when James Patterson's trash goes for twice the price.

It's one of the most thought-provoking books I've read. If it was non-fiction it would explain a whole lot about our world.

This man brings thinking outside the box to a new level. Why his back library isn't available on the UK Kindle store is a mystery to me.

If I could have paid more for it by giving a tip for an excellent book I would have.

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Carl Peremans

Reading should be compulsory

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 22, 2016

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Everyone with an IQ over 100 should read this immediately.
Profound neuroscience seved with a dressing of thriller, and very well written.
I will buy all Sawyers' books at once!

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