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ROBERT J. SAWYER
Hugo and Nebula Winner

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A high-tech game of cat-and-mouse between a murderous computer and a starship engineer.

• First Chapter
• Typical Passage (a quick taste of the novel)
• Cover Blurb
• Reviews
• Reading Group guide
• Introduction to the Mexican edition
• US Covers
• Japanese Cover
• Italian Cover
• Vulpeculan radio message diagram
• Annotated Dedication and Acknowledgments
• A Golden Fleece Sequel?
• Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics and Golden Fleece
• Rob's CBC column on The Fermi Paradox
• A blog entry on the 25th anniversary of finishing writing the book

"How good is this book? A friend of mine — an English professor — used to ask, whenever he saw me, `Why are you still writing that spaceship stuff?' Now I can answer. Because this is possible." — Orson Scott Card in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

• Warner/Questar, December 1990, ISBN 0-445-21078-8; US$4.50 / CDN$5.95
• Signed, numbered, limited edition from SoulWave Publishers, 1998, ISBN 1-891347-01-2
• Revised Edition: Tor trade paperback, November 1999, ISBN 0-312-86865-0
• A selection of The Science Fiction Book Club
• Winner of the Aurora Award for Best English Novel of 1990
• Finalist for Japan's Seiun Award for Best Foreign Novel of the Year
• Named best SF novel of the year by The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

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