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The Aurora Award-winning Science-fiction Classic back in Print!

The only novel from its year to be nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

The giant exploration starship Starplex - crewed by humans, dolphins, and extraterrestrials - embarks on a journey covering billions of years of time and millions of light-years of space.

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0889954445
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978-0889954441
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1st
Publisher

Red Deer Press
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March 15 2010
Language

English
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13.97 x 1.91 x 20.96 cm
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304 pages
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"The ultimate grand tour!" - Jack McDevitt

"For big-time interstellar adventure, look no farther."
-Gregory Benford

"Starplex should gladden the hearts of readers who complain that nobody's writing real science fiction anymore, the kind of story that has faster-than-light spaceships and far-off planets and interstellar combat. Sawyer deftly juggles half a dozen sweeping questions of cosmology (not to mention everyday ethics and morality) while keeping the story moving ahead full speed.
Enjoy."
-Asimov's Science Fiction

"Highly recommended."
-Library Journal

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"The ultimate grand tour!" - Jack McDevitt

"For big-time interstellar adventure, look no farther."
-Gregory Benford

"Starplex should gladden the hearts of readers who complain that nobody's writing real science fiction anymore, the kind of story that has faster-than-light spaceships and far-off planets and interstellar combat. Sawyer deftly juggles half a dozen sweeping questions of cosmology (not to mention everyday ethics and morality) while keeping the story moving ahead full speed.
Enjoy."
-Asimov's Science Fiction

"Highly recommended."
-Library Journal

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Red Deer Press; 1st edition (March 15 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0889954445
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0889954441
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 390 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.91 x 20.96 cm

Best Sellers Rank: #382,721 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #27,077 in Science Fiction (Books)
- #58,387 in Textbooks

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Robert J. Sawyer

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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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Willijohn Repath

Good in a lot of ways. Just felt rushed

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 9, 2021

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So much happened in a short time. I found the lead character was awkward about himself but in the end it makes him more realistic and human.

Another great read from Sawyer

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 3, 2020

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Love how Sawyer is able to take so many different directions in his sci-fi. They are all well researched, yet written with talent and imagination. This is another hit.

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 15, 2020

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Decent story if a little simple.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 7, 2018

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An intelligent story well told. It involves dark matter and the fate of the universe. Not the usual space opera, but a story focused on characters and science. My only wish is that it be updated to account for dark energy.

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 12, 2018

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Good story. Maybe too much hard science but good characters and plot. Have allways liked Sawyer as an author and he did not disappoint with this novel.

Some good ideas ...enjoyed it.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 23, 2017

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I liked the theme but was irritated when pages were spent on science details. Most of us didn't know if the science bits were based on real science or just imagination. The aliens were well done and interesting.

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Ian From Barrie

Sawyer is an amazing author

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 26, 2019

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This author's books are always winners. This one is no exception. The fact that he's Canadian shouldn't influence your decision ... oh, all right, it should. Buying this book is pretty much a patriotic duty.

Another Great Read by R Sawyer

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 15, 2019

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I recently discovered R Sawyer thanks to a tip for a bookstore employee. I cannot put his books down. He writes in a way that is easy to read and sparks the imagination!!

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P. G. Harris

Soapy Star Trek

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 5, 2019

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In his new introduction to Starplex, author Robert Sawyer states two intentions. Firstly to capture the spirit of Star Trek, and secondly to ordinary normal human relationships in an extraordinary situation. Just knowing those two things gives a pretty strong picture of what to expect here. Adding in some playing around with time travel on an epochal scale, in the manner of Stephen Baxter, completes the canvas.

Keith Lansing is the captain of the starship Starplex, built and crewed by four sentient species (of whom dolphins are one) and boldly going where no one has gone before through a network of intergalactic wormholes. On their travels they encounter not just a new species, but a new form of matter (it's life, Keith, but not as we know it), with the interaction going from mystery, to conflict to mutual understanding.

While Keith is managing first contact with the aliens, he has to cling on to command of his ship, which is threatened by one of his crew who is a member of a tribal warrior race.

The third challenge for the happily married, middle aged Keith comes in the form of an attractive younger female crew mate who seems to offer more excitement than his long term relationship which has settled into something rather prosaic.

Overall, it has the feel of an episode of the Original Series, or one of the better Star Trek films. It's quite short, and a bit flimsy, but good fun.

Malcolm R

Derivative

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 6, 2019

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This edition begins with some self-promotion by the author, which put me off right away, then continues as a mixture of David Brin’s Uplift novels - the only ones I can remember with multi-racial crews including sentient dolphins - the hard science of Fred Hoyle plus some extraordinary speculation and some of James White’s Hospital Station staff. It is also has some pulpy personal stuff which somehow I feel is inappropriate in SF especially as it is so “normal”, it may speculate about science but not people and their relationships. All in all OK but no cigar.

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CjW & KjW

Interesting book, some unique but far fetched ideas

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 8, 2019

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Interesting book, some unique but far fetched ideas.
Started well, but left some themes unanswered and the pseudo science about dark matter beings became rather tedious.
I like the various Alien physiologies though, I will probably read another book by this author, but I can't find it.

Jiff

Aliens working together (or not)?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 1, 2019

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A really interesting concept and well told story. Having different aliens getting on quite well, though not totally, made it different from the "aliens as enemy or superior beings" type of story. I've just started a new story by this author.

Spike

Great SF

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 11, 2019

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A must read for all hard sf fans, good old sf at its very best, action , plot, non stop adventure storyline, ranks with Clarke, Niven, Herbert and the like. One not to be missed.

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