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Hi, everybody. It's me, Rob Sawyer, the science-fiction writer from Mississauga (just outside Toronto). Below is a canned bio my publisher likes to use. :)
Robert J. Sawyer — 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:
the World Science Fiction Society's
Hugo Award , which he won in
2003 for his novel Hominids ;the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's
Nebula Award , which he won in 1996
for his novel The Terminal Experiment ;and 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, 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 the just-released
Rollback , plus
Frameshift ,
Factoring Humanity ,
Flashforward ,
Calculating God , and the popular "Neanderthal Parallax" trilogy consisting of
Hominids ,
Humans , and
Hybrids .His physical home is in Toronto; his cyberspace home is at SFwriter.com . And don't forget to check out his blog .
