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Called "the dean of Canadian science fiction" by The
Ottawa Citizen and "just about the best
science-fiction writer out there these days" by The
Denver Rocky Mountain News — is one of only seven
writers in history to win all three of the
science-fiction field's top honors for best novel of
the year:
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The
World Science Fiction Society's Hugo Award,
which he won in 2003 for his novel Hominids;
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The
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's
Nebula Award, which he won in 1996 for his novel
The Terminal Experiment; and
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The
John W. Campbell Memorial Award, which he won in
2006 for his novel Mindscan.
Rob is also the only writer in history to win the
top SF awards in the United States, China, Japan,
France, and Spain. In addition, he's won an Arthur
Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada as well
as nine Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards
("Auroras").
Maclean's: Canada's Weekly Newsmagazine says, "By
any reckoning, Sawyer is among the most successful
Canadian authors ever," and Barnes and Noble calls
him "the leader of SF's next-generation pack."
Rob's novels are top-ten national mainstream
bestsellers in Canada, appearing on the Globe and
Mail and Maclean's bestsellers' lists, and they've
hit #1 on the bestsellers' list published by Locus,
the U.S. trade journal of the SF field. His
seventeen novels include Frameshift, Factoring
Humanity, Flashforward, Calculating God, and the
popular "Neanderthal Parallax" trilogy consisting of
Hominids, Humans, and Hybrids.
He's often seen on TV, including such program as
Rivera Live with Geraldo Rivera, Canada A.M., and
Saturday Night at the Movies, and he's a frequent
science commentator for Discovery Channel Canada,
CBC Newsworld, and CBC Radio. He has been the
subject of an hour-long Canadian TV documentary ("In
the Mind of Robert J. Sawyer"), profiled for an
entire half-hour episode of "Credo," and twice been
"in the hot seat" on Vision TV's "Test of Faith"
with Valerie Pringle.
Rob — who holds an honorary doctorate from
Laurentian University — has taught writing at the
University of Toronto, Ryerson University, Humber
College, the National University of Ireland, and the
Banff Centre. He has been Writer-in-Residence at the
Richmond Hill (Ontario) Public Library, the
Kitchener (Ontario) Public Library, the Toronto
Public Library's Merril Collection of Science
Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy, and at the Odyssey
Workshop. And he edits Robert J. Sawyer Books, the
science-fiction imprint of Calgary's Red Deer Press.
Rob has given talks at hundreds of venues including
the Library of Congress and the National Library of
Canada, and been keynote speaker at dozens of events
in places as diverse as Los Angeles, Boston, Tokyo,
and Barcelona. He was born in Ottawa in 1960, and
now lives just west of Toronto with his wife, poet
Carolyn Clink.
For much more about Rob go to his website at
www.sfwriter.com
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