Dr.
Robert J. Sawyer, called "the dean of Canadian science fiction" by The
Ottawa Citizen, has won all three of the science fiction field's top honors for
best novel of the year, the Hugo, the Nebula and the John W. Campbell Memorial
Award, as well as eleven Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards (Auroras).
The ABC TV
series Flash Forward was based on
his novel of the same name.
Maclean's: Canada's Weekly
Newsmagazine says,
"By any reckoning, Sawyer is among the most successful Canadian authors ever."
Sawyer's novels are top-ten mainstream bestsellers in Canada. His twenty-three
novels include Frameshift, Factoring Humanity, Calculating God, Wake and the Neanderthal
Parallax trilogy: Hominids, Humans, Hybrids.
He's often seen
on TV, including such programs as Rivera Live with Geraldo
Rivera, Canada AM and Saturday Night at the Movies, and
he's a frequent science commentator for Discovery Channel Canada, CBC Newsworld
and CBC Radio. Sawyer holds an honorary doctorate from Laurentian University
and has taught writing at the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, Humber
College, the National University of Ireland and the Banff Centre. He edits
Robert J. Sawyer Books, the science fiction imprint of Red Deer Press. He was
born in Ottawa in 1960, and now lives near Toronto with his wife, poet Carolyn
Clink.
He has served as a
judge since 2005
