Education
- Class of 1982Radio and Television Arts(Alumni Award of Distinction awarded 2002)Casa Branca
- Class of 1979Toronto, Ontario
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Current City and Hometown
Mississauga, OntarioCurrent city
Toronto, OntarioHometown
About Robert
- Robert J. Sawyer — a member of the Order of Canada — has been 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. He is one of only eight 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.
According to the LOCUS Index to Science Fiction Awards, he has won more awards as a novelist than anyone else in the history of the science fiction and fantasy fields.
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 21 novels include the WWW trilogy of Wake, Watch, and Wonder, plus Triggers, Rollback, Frameshift, Factoring Humanity, FlashForward, Calculating God, and the popular "Neanderthal Parallax" trilogy consisting of Hominids, Humans, and Hybrids.
His physical home is in Mississauga (just outside Toronto); his cyberspace home is at http://SFwriter.com/ And don't forget to check out his blog at http://sfwriter.com/blog
Favorite Quotes
- "Beware the beast Man, for he is the devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, or lust, or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him. Drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death." -- Planet of the Apes
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