For Immediate Release
May 4, 2008

Red Deer Press, a division of Canadian publisher Fitzhenry & Whiteside, has just released Robert J. Sawyer's second short-story collection, Identity Theft and Other Stories.

The title story was a Nebula and Hugo Award finalist. The collection also includes the Hugo finalist "Shed Skin" (which was the basis for Sawyer's John W. Campbell Memorial Award-winning 2005 novel Mindscan), the Aurora Award winners "Ineluctable" and "Biding Time," and 13 more.  The book has an introduction by Hugo winner Robert Charles Wilson, and each story is accompanied by Sawyer's own commentary.

The first reviews have been glowing. Booklist says, "As fellow Canadian SF author Robert Charles Wilson points out, Sawyer's fiction possesses a remarkable down-to-earth quality that appeals to readers of all nationalities. Yet Sawyer's collection showcases not only an irresistibly engaging narrative voice but also a gift for confronting thorny philosophical conundrums. At every opportunity, Sawyer forces his readers to think while holding their attention with ingenious premises and superlative craftsmanship."

And the Canadian publishing trade journal Quill & Quire says, "Sawyer's latest collection is highly entertaining and thought-provoking; the book has something for almost any science-fiction fan. It is a testament to Sawyer's talent that it is not necessary to be a sci-fi fan to enjoy his writing; this is a collection of great stories that just happen to be set in the future."

The book is available now.  The Canadian launch party will be Saturday, May 10, 2008, at Toronto's Bakka-Phoenix Books (697 Queen Street West), where Sawyer worked in 1982.  The U.S. launch party -- jointly with Nick DiChario's new novel Valley of Day Glo, which Sawyer edited for the same publisher -- will be Saturday, June 21, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, 3349 Monroe Avenue, in Pittsford (Rochester), New York.

Sawyer is the author of 17 novels, including the Nebula Award-winning The Terminal Experiment and the Hugo Award-winning Hominids.  His latest novel, Rollback, is a current Hugo Award finalist.