When a Japanese researcher develops a new signal-processing implant that might give her sight, she jumps at the chance, flying to Tokyo for the operation.

But the visual cortex in Caitlin's brain has long since adapted to allow her to navigate online. When the implant is activated, instead of seeing reality, she sees the landscape of the World Wide Web spreading out around her in a riot of colours and shapes. While exploring this amazing realm, she discovers something—some other—lurking in the background. And it's getting smarter…

Iterations is Sawyer's first short story collection, gathering 22 fantastic tales from such diverse places asAmazing Stories, the Village Voice, the Globe & Mail, and Nature.

Among them, these stories have:

• Won the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award ("the Aurora")
  
• Won the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award,
  
• Been nominated for the Hugo,
  
• Nominated for and the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award,
  
• Been performed on CBC Radio, and
  
• Appeared in best-of-the-year collections.

In Iterations, you'll:

• See Sherlock Holmes solve the problem of the missing aliens,
  
• Find out what really happened to the bones of Peking Man,
  
• Learn the truth about the alligators in the sewers of New York,
  
• Visit a future Toronto sealed inside a steel dome,
  
• Encounter pure evil aboard the Russian space station Mir,
  
• Follow a serial killer as his consciousness is transferred into a Tyrannosaurus rex, and
  
• Meet a man doomed to commit murder over and over again because of the pressures of Canadian publishing.

Each story is accompanied by Sawyer's own commentary, and the collection is introduced by award-winning SF author James Alan Gardner.