Identity Theft and other stories (collection)

The Neanderthal Parallax

Hominids

Humans

Flybrids

The Quintaglio Ascension

Far-Seer

Fossil Flunter

Foreigner

COLLECTIONS

Iterations (introduction by James Alan Gardner)

Relativity (introduction by Mike Resnick)

Identity Theft (introduction by Robert Charles Wilson)

ANTHOLOGIES

Tesseracts 6 (with Carolyn Clink)

Crossing the Line (with David Skene-Melvin)

Over the Edge (with Peter Sellers)

Boarding the Enterprise (with David Gerrold)

Identity Theft

AND OTHER STORIES

Robert J. Sawyer

Introduction by Robert Charles Wilson

Copyright © 2008 Robert J. Sawyer Introduction © 2008 Robert Charles Wilson Copyright for individual stories featured on page 286

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Sawyer, Robert J

Identity theft and other stories / Robert J. Sawyer ; introduction by Robert Charles Wilson.

ISBN 978-0-88995-411-3 (bound).—ISBN 978-0-88995-412-0 (pbk.)

I. Title.

PS8587.A389835I34 2008 C813'.54 C2007-905117-0

United States Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Sawyer, Robert J.

Identity theft and other stories / introduction by Robert Charles Wilson ; Robert J. Sawyer.

[240] p.: cm.

ISBN: 9780889954120 (pbk.)

1. Short stories, Canadian - 20th century. I. Wilson, Robert Charles. II. Title. 813.0108971 dc22 PR9199.3S248Id 2008