Biography
Author Interview: Robert J. Sawyer 
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:
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 ten 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.
Bio courtesy of the author's website: http://www.sfwriter.com.
Picture by Carolyn Clink.
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- starmetal oak book blog: Review: WWW: Wake by Robert J. Sawyer
When I picked this book up purely on the interesting premise, I had no idea who Robert J. Sawyer was. Now I know he's a Canadian author and that he wrote FlashForward (which I had seen on TV). So I suppose I was really lucky in picking ... - Robert J. Sawyer » Blog Archive » Japan, here I come!
Robert J. Sawyer. Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer. Wake is a current Hugo and Aurora Award finalist — and a Globe and Mail national bestseller! Recent Posts. Japan, here I come! I was blind for six days ... - ticon4 » Review: FlashForward by Robert J Sawyer
FlashForward – Robert J Sawyer Hachette Livre Gollancz, 2009 320 pages. RRP: AU$19.99. ISBN: 978-057-509101-6. Reviewed by Kate Smith. FlashForward is the story of a science experiment that results in unexpected consequences and ... - The SF Site Featured Review: WWW: Wake
The winner of the Nebula Award in 1995 for The Terminal Experiment, Robert J. Sawyer has also won several Aurora Awards, Canada's award for excellence in science fiction. His novel Starplex was a finalist for both the Hugo and the ... - Review of “WWW: Wake” by Robert J. Sawyer « Rhapsody in Books Weblog
Review of “WWW: Wake” by Robert J. Sawyer. Posted on 07/07/2010 by rhapsodyinbooks. WWW: Wake is a coming of age YA novel by one of my very favorite scifi authors, Robert Sawyer. Caitlin Decter, a precocious and witty fifteen-year-old, ... - The Mad Professah Lectures: BOOK REVIEW: Robert J. Sawyer's ...
Robert J. Sawyer is probably best known now as the author of Flash Forward, on which the now-cancelled ABC television miniseries of the same name was based. However, the Canadian author is also acclaimed for his other science fiction ... - Scott D Parker: Book Review Club: Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer
Science fiction is riff with the question of "what if?". It's a mainstay for a genre that includes space opera as well as alternate history. In Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer's Hugo-Award-winning novel, you get to experience a fascinating ... - REVIEW - The Hugo Nominees for Best Novel: WWW:WAKE, by Robert J ...
If the world of science fiction literature were similar to the music industry, Robert J. Sawyer could fit in the label of "easy reading". This is a compliment: just another day I've noticed that Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward's project She ... - FlashForward Author Robert J. Sawyer on How George Lucas Pre ...
FlashForward Author Robert J. Sawyer on How George Lucas Pre-Empted His SciFi Series - The novelist discusses the ABC adaptation of his 1999 book and explains the network's reluctance to compare it with LOST. - Review: Wake by Robert J. Sawyer
Wake. by Robert J. Sawyer. Cover image. Series: WWW #1. Publisher: Ace. Copyright: April 2009. Printing: April 2010. ISBN: 0-441-01853-X. Format: Mass market. Pages: 330. Buy at Powell's Books. Caitlin is a fifteen-year-old math whiz, ...
