Robert J. Sawyer

Infobox Writer
name=Robert J. Sawyer

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birthdate = Birth date and age|1960|4|29|mf=y
birthplace = Ottawa, Ontario
occupation = novelist
nationality = flagicon|Canada Canadian
genre = science fiction, mystery
debut_works = "Golden Fleece"
website = http://www.sfwriter.com/

Robert J. Sawyer is a Canadian science fiction writer, born in Ottawa in 1960 and now resident in Mississauga. He has published 17 novels,cite web
url=http://www.sfwriter.com/cv.htm
title=Robert J. Sawyer Curriculum Vitae
date=2007
author=Robert J. Sawyer
accessdate=2007-08-08] and his short fiction has appeared in "Analog Science Fiction and Fact", "Amazing Stories", "On Spec", "Nature", and numerous anthologies.cite web
url=http://sfwriter.com/shortfic.htm
title=Short-Fiction Bibliography
date=2007
author=Robert J. Sawyer
accessdate=2007-09-25] cite web
url=http://www.locusmag.com/index/s646.htm#A15666
title=The "Locus" Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998)
date=2007
author=Charles N. Brown and William G. Contento
accessdate=2007-12-06]

Awards and Honors

Robert James Sawyer has won forty-one national and international awards for his fiction,cite web
url=http://www.sfwriter.com/cv.htm
title=Robert J. Sawyer Curriculum Vitae
date=2007
author=Robert J. Sawyer
accessdate=2007-08-08] cite web
url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit116.html#4576
title="Locus" Index to Science Fiction Awards
date=2007
author=Mark R. Kelly
accessdate=2007-09-25] most prominently the 1995 Nebula Awardcite web
url=http://sfwriter.com/prnewi95.htm
title=Nebula Award win for "The Terminal Experiment"
date=1995
author=SFWRITER.COM Inc.
accessdate=2007-09-25] for his novel "The Terminal Experiment;" the 2003 Hugo Awardcite web
url=http://sfwriter.com/prhuwi03.htm
title=Hugo Award win for "Hominids"
date=2003
author=SFWRITER.COM Inc.
accessdate=2007-09-25] for his novel "Hominids", first volume of his Neanderthal Parallax trilogy; and the 2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Awardcite web
url=http://sfwriter.com/campbell.htm
title=John W. Campbell Memorial Award win for "Mindscan"
date=2006
author=SFWRITER.COM Inc.
accessdate=2007-09-25] for his novel "Mindscan". He has had two additional Nebula nominations, ten additional Hugo nominations, and three additional Campbell Memorial Award nominations.cite web
url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit116.html#4576
title="Locus" Index to Science Fiction Awards
date=2007
author=Mark R. Kelly
accessdate=2007-09-25]

His books have appeared on the major top-ten national mainstream bestsellers' lists in Canada, as published by "The Globe and Mail" newspapercite web
url=http://www.sfwriter.com/lngm.htm
title="Calculating God" on "Globe and Mail" Bestseller List
date=2000
author=SFWRITER.COM Inc.
accessdate=2007-12-06] and "Maclean's" magazine,cite web
url=http://www.sfwriter.com/lnmaclea.htm
title="Calculating God" on "Maclean's" Bestseller List
date=2000
author=SFWRITER.COM Inc.
accessdate=2007-12-06] and they have reached number one on the bestsellers' list published by "Locus",cite web
url=http://www.locusmag.com/2001/Issue10/LocusBestsellers.html
title=Bestsellers List for October 2001
date=2001
author="Locus"
accessdate=2007-09-25] the trade-journal of the SF field. Translated editions have appeared in Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, and Spanish,cite web
url=http://www.sfwriter.com/cv.htm
title=Robert J. Sawyer Curriculum Vitae
date=2007
author=Robert J. Sawyer
accessdate=2007-08-08] and he has won major SF awards in Canada, China, France, Japan, Spain, and the United States.cite web
url=http://www.sfwriter.com/cv.htm
title=Robert J. Sawyer Curriculum Vitae
date=2007
author=Robert J. Sawyer
accessdate=2007-08-08]

In 2002, Sawyer received Ryerson University's Alumni Award of Distinction in honor of his international success as a science fiction writercite web
url=http://www.ryerson.ca/alumni/alumniachievementawards/pastAAA/2002/index.html#sawyer
title=Ryerson Alumni Achievement Awards 2002
date=2002
author=Ryerson University
accessdate=2007-09-25] (Sawyer graduated from Ryerson in 1982 with a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Radio and Television Arts).cite web
url=http://www.sfwriter.com/cv.htm
title=Robert J. Sawyer Curriculum Vitae
date=2007
author=Robert J. Sawyer
accessdate=2007-08-08] On June 2, 2007, Sawyer received an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Letters, "honoris causa") from Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario.cite web
url=http://www.sfwriter.com/2007/06/honorary-doctorate-for-robert-j-sawyer.html
title=Honorary Doctorate for Robert J. Sawyer
date=2007
author=Robert J. Sawyer blog
accessdate=2007-09-25]

Critical Studies

Critical studies and scholarly reviews of Sawyer's work have appeared in "The Gospel According to Science Fiction" by Gabriel McKee; in "Worlds of Wonder: Readings in Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature" edited by Jean-Francois Leroux and Camille R. La Bossiere; in "The Everyday Fantasic: Essays on Science Fiction and Human Being" edited by Michael Berman;cite web
url=http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Essays-on-Human-Being-and-Meaning1-84718-428-6.htm
title="The Everyday Fantastic" Table of Contents
date=2008
author=Michael Berman
accessdate=2008-03-22] in "The New York Review of Science Fiction"; in the "SFRA Review";cite web
url=http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/sfra/sfra-review/253.pdf
title="SFRA Review" on "Calculating God"
date=2001
author=Janice M. Bogstad
accessdate=2007-09-25] cite web
url=http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/sfra/sfra-review/258.pdf
title="SFRA Review" on "Hominids"
date=2002
author=Warren G. Rochelle
accessdate=2007-09-25] cite web
url=http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/sfra/sfra-review/262.pdf
title="SFRA Review" on "Humans"
date=2003
author=Warren G. Rochelle
accessdate=2007-09-25] cite web
url=http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/sfra/sfra-review/272.pdf
title="SFRA Review" on "Mindscan"
date=2005
author=Philip Snyder
accessdate=2007-09-25] cite web
url=http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/sfra/sfra-review/279.pdf
title="SFRA Review" on "Rollback"
date=2007
author=Geetha B
accessdate=2008-03-11] in a scholarly afterword by Valerie Broege in Sawyer's own essay collection "Relativity"; and even in such publications as "Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice".cite web
url=http://www.ccja-acjp.ca/en/cjcr100/cjcr115.html
title="Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice" reviews "Hybrids"
date=2006
author=Nick W. Peterson
accessdate=2007-09-25]

His fiction has received starred reviews (denoting "books of exceptional merit") in "Publishers Weekly",cite web
url=http://sfwriter.com/sawyer-review-tearsheets.pdf
title=Review Tearsheets
date=1990-2007
author=Margaret Cannon, Orson Scott Card, Cori Dusmann, R. John Hayes, Roberta Johnson, Trevor Klassen, Moira L. MacKinnon, Henry Mietkiewicz, Shane Neilson, Marc Piche, Philip Snyder, Hayden Trenholm, Robert J. Wiersma, and anonymous
accessdate=2007-09-25] "Library Journal",cite web
url=http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6432800.html
title="Library Journal" reviews "Rollback"
date=2007
author=Jackie Cassada
accessdate=2007-09-25] "Booklist",cite web
url=http://sfwriter.com/sawyer-review-tearsheets.pdf
title=Review Tearsheets
date=1990-2007
author=Margaret Cannon, Orson Scott Card, Cori Dusmann, R. John Hayes, Roberta Johnson, Trevor Klassen, Moira L. MacKinnon, Henry Mietkiewicz, Shane Neilson, Marc Piche, Philip Snyder, Hayden Trenholm, Robert J. Wiersma, and anonymous
accessdate=2007-09-25] "Quill & Quire",cite web
url=http://sfwriter.com/sawyer-review-tearsheets.pdf
title=Review Tearsheets
date=1990-2007
author=Margaret Cannon, Orson Scott Card, Cori Dusmann, R. John Hayes, Roberta Johnson, Trevor Klassen, Moira L. MacKinnon, Henry Mietkiewicz, Shane Neilson, Marc Piche, Philip Snyder, Hayden Trenholm, Robert J. Wiersma, and anonymous
accessdate=2007-09-25] "Kliatt", and "Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction", Fifth Edition, by Neil Barron.

Conference papers about Sawyer's work include "The Intimately Human and the Grandly Cosmic: Humor and the Sublime in the Works of Robert J. Sawyer," by Fiona Kelleghan, presented at the 29th annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando, Florida, March 2008,cite web
url=http://www.sfwriter.com/2008/03/humor-in-sf-of-robert-j-sawyer.html
title=The Intimately Human and the Grandly Cosmic: Humor and the Sublime in the Works of Robert J. Sawyer
date=2008
author=Fiona Kelleghan
accessdate=2008-04-15] and "The Science and Religion Dialogue in the Science Fiction of Robert J. Sawyer," by Valerie Broege, presented at The Uses of the Science Fiction Genre: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Brock University, October 2005.cite web
url=http://www.brocku.ca/philosophy/scifi_conference.pdf
title=The Uses of the Science Fiction Genre: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
date=2005
author=Michael Berman
accessdate=2008-04-15]

Sawyer is profiled in "The Canadian Encyclopedia",cite web
url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009947
title="The Canadian Encyclopedia" on Robert J. Sawyer
date=2007
author=Historica Foundation of Canada
accessdate=2007-12-04] "Canadian Who's Who",cite web
url=http://sfwriter.com/arwhowho.htm
title="Canadian Who's Who" on Robert J. Sawyer
date=2007
author=University of Toronto Press
accessdate=2007-09-25] "Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada",cite web
url=http://www.uleth.ca/edu/runte/professional/cv.htm
title=Curriculum vitae
date=2005
author=Robert Runte
accessdate=2008-04-14] "The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature", "Contemporary Authors" volume 212,cite web
url=http://sfwriter.com/gale.htm
title=Autobiography from "Contemporary Authors"
date=2003
author=Robert J. Sawyer
accessdate=2007-09-25] "Something About the Author" volume 81,cite web
url=http://biography.jrank.org/pages/345/Sawyer-Robert-J-ames-1960-Sidelights.html
title="Something About the Author" on Robert J. Sawyer (Sidelights)
date=2004
author=J. Sydney Jones
accessdate=2007-12-06] "St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers", and "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". The hour-long documentary "In the Mind of Robert J. Sawyer" premiered on Canadian television on January 8, 2003,cite web
url=http://tv.msn.com/tv/series/In-the-Mind-of-Robert-J-Sawyer
title=In the Mind of Robert J. Sawyer
date=2003
author=MSN TV
accessdate=2007-09-25] and has been shown numerous times since on various channels, including Space: The Imagination Station, for which Sawyer is a frequent commentator.

tyle and Themes

Sawyer's style is simple, with clear prose, near the mode of Isaac Asimov.cite web
url=http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/f&sf/90-12.html
title=Review of "Golden Fleece"
date=1990
author=Orson Scott Card
accessdate=2007-08-11] cite web
url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009947
title="The Canadian Encyclopedia" on Robert J. Sawyer
date=2007
author=Historica Foundation of Canada
accessdate=2007-12-04] He also has a tendency to include pop-culture references in his novels (his fondness for the original "" and "Planet of the Apes" is impossible to miss), and he is unusual even among Canadian SF writers for the blatantly Canadian settings and concerns addressed in his novels, all of which are issued by New York houses.

Sawyer's politics are often described as liberal, even by Canadian standards (although he contributed a Hugo Award-nominated story called "The Hand You're Dealt"cite web
url=http://sfwriter.com/sthand.htm
title=The Hand You're Dealt (short story)
date=1997
author=Robert J. Sawyer
accessdate=2007-09-25] to the Libertarian SF anthology "Free Space", and another called "The Right's Tough"cite web
url=http://sfwriter.com/2007/08/rights-tough.html
title=The Right's Tough (short story)
date=2004
author=Robert J. Sawyer
accessdate=2007-09-25] to the Prometheus Award-winning Libertarian SF anthology "Visions of Liberty"). He holds citizenship in both Canada and the United States, and has been known to criticize the politics of both countries. He often has American characters visiting Canada (such as Karen Bessarian in "Mindscan") or Canadian characters visiting the U.S. (such as Pierre Tardivel in "Frameshift" and Mary Vaughan in "Humans" and "Hybrids") as a way of comparing and contrasting the perceived values of the two countries.

Sawyer's work frequently explores the intersection between science and religion, with rationalism always winning out over mysticismcite web
url=http://biography.jrank.org/pages/345/Sawyer-Robert-J-ames-1960-Sidelights.html
title="Something About the Author" on Robert J. Sawyer (Sidelights)
date=2004
author=J. Sydney Jones
accessdate=2007-12-06] (see especially "Far-Seer", "The Terminal Experiment", "Calculating God", and the three volumes of the Neanderthal Parallax ["Hominids", "Humans", and "Hybrids"] , plus the short story "The Abdication of Pope Mary III," originally published in "Nature", July 6, 2000). He also has a great fondness for paleontology, as evidenced in his Quintaglio Ascension trilogy ("Far-Seer", "Fossil Hunter", and "Foreigner"), about an alien world to which dinosaurs from Earth were transplanted, and his time-travel novel "End of an Era". In addition, the main character of "Calculating God" is a paleontologist, and the Neanderthal Parallax novels deal with an alternate version of Earth where Neanderthals did not become extinct.

He often explores the notion of copied or uploaded human consciousness, most fully in his novel "Mindscan", but also in "Golden Fleece" and "The Terminal Experiment", plus the Hugo-, Nebula-, and Aurora-award-nominated novella "Identity Theft," its sequel the Aurora-winning short story "Biding Time," and the Hugo- and Aurora-award-nominated short story "Shed Skin." His interest in quantum physics, and especially quantum computing, inform the short stories "You See But You Do Not Observe"cite web
url=http://sfwriter.com/styousee.htm
title=You See But You Do Not Observe (short story)
date=1995
author=Robert J. Sawyer
accessdate=2007-09-25] (a Sherlock Holmes pastiche) and "Iterations,"cite web
url=http://sfwriter.com/stiterat.htm
title=Iterations (short story)
date=2000
author=Robert J. Sawyer
accessdate=2007-09-25] and the novels "Factoring Humanity" and "Hominids". SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, plays a role in the plots of "Golden Fleece", "Factoring Humanity", "Mindscan", "Rollback", the novelette "Ineluctable," and the short stories "You See But You Do Not Observe" and "Flashes."

Sawyer gives cosmology a thorough workout in his far-future "Starplex".cite web
url=http://www.brookscole.com/astronomy_d/templates/student_resources/0030328667_fraknoi/general_resources/stories.html
title=Science Fiction Stories with Good Science
date=1997
author=Andrew Fraknoi
accessdate=2007-12-06] Real-life science institutions are often used as settings by Sawyer, including TRIUMF in "End of an Era", CERN in "Flashforward", the Royal Ontario Museum in "Calculating God", the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in "Hominids" and its sequels, and the Arecibo Observatory in "Rollback".

Another Sawyer hallmark is the mortally ill main character. Pierre Tardivel in "Frameshift" suffers from Huntington's disease, Thomas Jericho in "Calculating God" has lung cancer, and Jacob Sullivan in "Mindscan" has an arteriovenous malformation in his brain; one of the main characters in "Rollback" vividly suffers from that most fatal illness of all, old age. Sawyer nonetheless is known for tales that end on an upbeat, and even transcendent, note.cite web
url=http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2007/08/28/robert-sawyer.html
title=Sawyer says Chinese readers see freedom in sci-fi's ideas
date=2007
author=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
accessdate=2007-12-06]

F/Mystery Crossovers

Sawyer's work often crosses over from science fiction to mystery; he won both Canada's top SF award (the Aurora Award) and its top mystery-fiction award (the Arthur Ellis Award) for his 1993 short story "Just Like Old Times."cite web
url=http://sfwriter.com/stoldtim.htm
title=Just Like Old Times (short story)
date=1993
author=Robert J. Sawyer
accessdate=2007-09-25] "Illegal Alien" is a courtroom drama with an extraterrestrial defendant; "Hominids" puts one Neanderthal on trial by his peers for the apparent murder of another Neanderthal; "Mindscan" has the rights of uploaded consciousnesses explored in a Michigan probate court; and "Golden Fleece", "Fossil Hunter", "The Terminal Experiment", "Frameshift", and "Flashforward" are all, in part, murder mysteries. Of Sawyer's shorter SF works, the novella "Identity Theft" and the short stories "Biding Time," "Flashes," "Iterations," "Shed Skin," "The Stanley Cup Caper," "You See But You Do Not Observe," and the aforementioned "Just Like Old Times" are all also crime or mystery fiction.

Other Activities

In addition to his own writing, Sawyer edits the [http://www.robertjsawyerbooks.com Robert J. Sawyer Books] cite web
url=http://www.sfwriter.com/rjsbooks.htm
title=Robert J. Sawyer Books Submission Guidelines
date=2007
author=Red Deer Press
accessdate=2007-12-06] science-fiction imprint for Red Deer Press, part of Canadian publisher Fitzhenry & Whiteside; contributes to "The New York Review of Science Fiction";cite web
url=http://www.bbr-online.com/catalogue/Items/NYRSF.shtml
title="New York Review of Science Fiction" #176 to current
date=2007
author=The BRB Catalogue
accessdate=2007-12-06] is "The Canadian Encyclopedia"'s authority on science fiction;cite web
url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009947
title=Science Fiction in "The Canadian Encyclopedia"
date=2007
author=Robert J. Sawyer
accessdate=2007-12-04] and is a judge for L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Futurecite web
url=http://www.writersofthefuture.com/judges.htm
title=List of Judges
date=2007
author=Writers of the Future
accessdate=2007-09-25] contest.

Sawyer wrote the original series bible for "Charlie Jade", an hour-long science-fiction TV series that first aired in 2005-2006, and he did conceptual work in 2003 for reviving "Robotech". He has also written and narrated documentaries about science fiction for CBC Radio's "Ideas" series. He provided analysis of the British science fiction series "Doctor Who" for the CBC's online documentary "The Planet of the Doctor",cite web
url=http://www.cbc.ca/planetofthedoctor/
title="Planet of the Doctor"
date=2005
author=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
accessdate=2007-09-25] frequently comments on science fiction movies for TVOntario's "Saturday Night at the Movies", and co-edited an essay collection in honor of the fortieth anniversary of "Star Trek" with David Gerrold, entitled "Boarding the Enterprise".

Sawyer has taught science-fiction writing at the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, Humber College, and the Banff Centre. In 2000, he served as Writer-in-Residence at the Richmond Hill, Ontario, Public Library. In 2003, he was Writer-in-Residence at the Toronto Public Library's Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy (the first person to hold this post since Judith Merril herself in 1987).cite web
url=http://sfwriter.com/prmerril.htm
title=Merril Collection Writer-in-Residence
date=2003
author=SFWRITER.COM Inc.
accessdate=2007-09-25] In 2006, he was Writer-in-Residence at the Odyssey Writing Workshop. Also in 2006, he was the Edna Staebler Writer-in-Residence at the Kitchener Public Library in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario,cite web
url=http://www.sfwriter.com/2006/08/rob-to-be-writer-in-residence-in.html
title=Edna Staebler Writer-in-Residence
date=2006
author=Robert J. Sawyer blog
accessdate=2007-09-25] following on the Region of Waterloo's choice of Sawyer's "Hominids" as the "One Book, One Community"cite web
url=http://obocwaterlooregion.blogspot.com/2006/04/one-book-one-community-2005-title.html
title=One Book, One Community chooses "Hominids"
date=2005
author=Region of Waterloo
accessdate=2007-09-25] title that all 490,000 residents were encouraged to read in 2005.

Sawyer is a frequent keynote speaker about technology topics,cite web
url=http://sfwriter.com/speaking.htm
title=Keynotes and Talks
date=2007
author=Robert J. Sawyer
accessdate=2007-12-05] cite web
url=http://speakers.ca/sawyer_robert.aspx
title=Robert J. Sawyer: The Challenge of Tomorrow
date=2007
author=Speakers' Spotlight
accessdate=2007-12-05] and has served as a consultant to Canada's Federal Department of Justice on the shape future genetics laws should take.cite web
url=http://www.sfsite.com/columns/news0303.htm
title=Genetics Future Forum Includes Author
date=2003
author=Steven H. Silver
accessdate=2007-12-05]

He has long been an advocate of Canadian science fiction. He lobbied hard for the creation of the Canadian Region of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The Canadian Region was established in 1992, and Sawyer served for three years on SFWA's Board of Directors as the first Canadian Regional Director (1992-1995). He also edited the newsletter of the Canadian Region, called "Alouette" in honor of Canada's first satellite; the newsletter was nominated for an Aurora Award for best fanzine.

In 1998, Sawyer was elected president of SFWA on a platform that promised a referendum on various contentious issues, including periodic membership requalification and the creation of a Nebula Award for best script; he won, defeating the next-closest candidate, past-SFWA-president Norman Spinrad, by a 3:2 margin. However, Sawyer's actual time in office was marked by considerable opposition to membership requalification and negative reaction to his dismissing, with the majority support of the Board of Directors, one paid SFWA worker and one volunteer. He resigned after completing half of his one-year term, and was automatically succeeded by then-incumbent vice-president Paul Levinson. Prior to resigning, Sawyer's promised referendum was held, resulting in significant changes to SFWA's bylaws and procedures, most notably allowing appropriate non-North American sales to count as membership credentials, allowing appropriate electronic sales to count as membership credentials, and creating a Nebula Award for best script.

Sawyer has been active in other writers' organizations, including the Crime Writers of Canada and The Writers' Union of Canadacite web
url=http://writersunion.ca/ww_alphalist.asp?L=S
title=Membership Directory
date=2007
author=The Writers' Union of Canada
accessdate=2007-09-25] (for which he has served on the membership committee), and he is a member of the Writers Guild of Canada and the Horror Writers Association.

Current Project

Sawyer's current project, under contract to Penguin USA's Ace Science Fiction imprint and Penguin Canada, is a trio of novels dealing with the notion of a self-aware World Wide Web; the individual volumes have the working titles of "Wake", "Watch", and "Wonder", making this the "WWW" trilogy.cite web
url=http://www.sfwriter.com/2007/05/new-deal-with-penguin-in-canada-and-usa.html
title=New Deal with Penguin in Canada and USA
date=2007
author=Robert J. Sawyer blog
accessdate=2007-09-25]

Bibliography

*"Golden Fleece" (Warner Books/Questar, 1990)
*The Quintaglio Ascension trilogy:
**"Far-Seer" (Ace, 1992)
**"Fossil Hunter" (Ace, 1993)
**"Foreigner" (Ace, 1994)
*"End of an Era" (Ace, 1994)
*"The Terminal Experiment" - Serialized as "Hobson's Choice" in Analog Science Fiction (HarperPrism, 1995)
*"Starplex" - Serialized in "Analog Science Fiction" (Ace, 1996)
*"Frameshift" (Tor, 1997)
*"Illegal Alien" (Ace, 1997)
*"Factoring Humanity" (Tor, 1998)
*"Flashforward" (Tor, 1999)
*"Calculating God" (Tor, 2000)
*"Iterations" - Short stories (Quarry Press, 2002)
*The Neanderthal Parallax trilogy:
**"Hominids" - Serialized in Analog Science Fiction (Tor, 2003)
**"Humans" (Tor, 2003)
**"Hybrids" (Tor, 2003)
*"Relativity" (ISFiC Press, 2004)
*"Mindscan" (Tor, 2005)
*"Rollback" - Serialized in Analog Science Fiction (Tor, 2007)
*"Identity Theft and Other Stories" (Red Deer Press, 2008)
*The WWW trilogy:cite web
url=http://www.sfwriter.com/2007/05/new-deal-with-penguin-in-canada-and-usa.html
title=New Deal with Penguin in Canada and USA
date=2007
author=Robert J. Sawyer blog
accessdate=2007-09-25]
**"Wake" (Ace USA and Penguin Canada, forthcoming)
**"Watch" (Ace USA and Penguin Canada, forthcoming)
**"Wonder" (Ace USA and Penguin Canada, forthcoming)

Awards Details

Awards for Sawyer's work include:

*1991 Aurora Award for Best Long Work in English, for "Golden Fleece"
*1992 Homer Award for Best Novel, for "Far-Seer"
*1993 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story, for "Just Like Old Times"
*1993 Homer Award for Best Novel, for "Fossil Hunter"
*1995 "Le Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire" for Best Foreign Short Story, "You See But You Do Not Observe"
*1995 Nebula Award for Best Novel, for "The Terminal Experiment"
*1995 Aurora Award for Best Long Work in English, for "The Terminal Experiment"
*1996 Seiun Award for Best Foreign Novel, for "End of an Era"
*1996 Aurora Award for Best Long Work in English, for "Starplex"
*1997 "Science Fiction Chronicle" Reader Award for Best Short Story, for "The Hand You're Dealt"
*1999 Aurora Award for Best Long Work in English, for "Flashforward"
*2000 Seiun Award for Best Foreign Novel, for "Frameshift"
*2002 Seiun Award for Best Foreign Novel, for "Illegal Alien"
*2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel, for "Hominids"
*2005 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award for Best Short Story, for "Shed Skin"
*2005 Aurora Award for Best Work in English (Other) for "Relativity"
*2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, for "Mindscan"
*2007 Toronto Public Library Celebrates Reading Award
*2007 Galaxy Award (China) for "Most Popular Foreign Author"
*2007 Aurora Award for Best Short Work in English, for "Biding Time"

ee also

*List of Canadian writers

References

External links

* [http://www.sfwriter.com/index.htm Robert J. Sawyer's website]
* [http://www.sfwriter.com/blog.htm Robert J. Sawyer's blog]
* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/robertjsawyer Robert J. Sawyer discussion group]
* [http://sfwriter.com/rgindex.htm Book-club discussion guides for Sawyer novels]
* [http://www.quillandquire.com/authors/profile.cfm?article_id=7745 Profile in "Quill & Quire"]
* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009947 Entry on Robert J. Sawyer in "The Canadian Encyclopedia"]
* [http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit116.html#4576 Listing for Sawyer in the "Locus" Index to Science Fiction Awards]
* [http://www.locusmag.com/index/b419.html#A6075 Listing for Sawyer in the "Locus" Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998)]
*isfdb name|id=Robert_J._Sawyer|name=Robert J. Sawyer
* [http://www.robertjsawyerbooks.com Robert J. Sawyer Books -- the publishing imprint he edits]
* [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i47f5cb6394a9cc0f53497a9f9dde8287 'Flash' drama wakes up at ABC]

Interviews

* [http://ficlets.com/blog/entry/author_interview_robert_j_sawyer Robert J. Sawyer interviewed by John Scalzi] (text)
* [http://www.cbc.ca/wordsatlarge/features/feature.php?storyId=516 Robert J. Sawyer interviewed by CBC's Words at Large] (text)
* [http://biography.jrank.org/pages/345/Sawyer-Robert-J-ames-1960-Sidelights.html Robert J. Sawyer interviewed by "Something About the Author"] (text)
* [http://www.wotmania.com/fantasymessageboardshowmessage.asp?MessageID=47446 Robert J. Sawyer interviewed by Wotmania.com] (text)
* [http://www.marsdust.com/sawyer1.htm Robert J. Sawyer interviewed by MarsDust.com] (text)
* [http://www.hardsf.net/?mode=8&id=6 Robert J. Sawyer interviewed by HardSF.net] (text)
* [http://sfwriter.com/sawyer-on-sounds-like-canada.mp3 Robert J. Sawyer interviewed by CBC Radio's "Sounds Like Canada"] (audio)
* [http://www.sfwriter.com/2007/04/cjad-interviews-rob.html Robert J. Sawyer interviewed by CJAD Montreal] (audio)
* [http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1126028688/bclid1126074612/bctid1078617413 Robert J. Sawyer interviewed by SpaceChannel.tv] (video)