Author Robert J. Sawyer: Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Memorial Award-winning Science Fiction Writer

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"You can call this alternate history or alternate astrophysics (or both). Whatever term you choose, it's a terrific story." EricFlint, author of1632Quantum Night by Robert J. Sawyer#1 Locus bestseller!Now in Paperback / Audiobook / eBook Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Sawyer's latest work is a fast-moving, mind-stretching exploration of the nature of personality and consciousness; it balances esoteric speculation with action and character. PublishersWeekly (starredreview) Some thriller writers get you worried about the future. Sawyer makes the presentperilous. Linwood BarclayRed Planet Blues:Murder on the mean streets of Mars! Acause for celebration; a tourdeforce. Analog Globeand Mail and Maclean s Bestseller!Triggers:Someone is reading the president s memories! Aturbo-charged technothriller. Publishers Weekly Globeand Mail and #1Locus Bestseller!FlashForward: Basis for the ABC TV series! Athoroughly entertaining novel. CNN Aurora Award winner!You can now support me directly via my Patreon page and receive exclusive perks, including lots of behind-the-scenes goodies such as my FlashForward script,sneak peeks at works in progress, and more.My most-generous patrons are the members of TeamSawyer, and I'm very, very grateful for their support:ChristopherBair KeithBallinger KellyBarratt JudithBemis JenniferBlanchard RhondaBradley Dr.JamesChristie PhillipClark ChristineV.Connell GenevieveDoucette AllisonDubarry HughGamble JamesKerwin GregoryKoch ArchieKubacki MatthewLeDrew JoelLeeLiberski GillianMartin CaryMeriwether ChristinaDawnMonroe AriochMorningstar AnnaNelson ShaneP.Newton TheNolanFamily IanPedoe KenRay FionaReid CarolRichards SaulRhymes CarolRichards RobinSchumacher TimothyW.Spencer RalstonStahler AndrewTennant DouglasTindal MissR-LaurraineTutihasi ScottWilson JoshuaPaulWolff BrianWright LenZaifmanThe World Wide Web wakes up Lately, I ve been inspired by ideas from Robert J. Sawyer. Artificial-intelligence pioneer MarvinMinskyThe history-making series! Every volume in the WWW trilogy has won the Aurora Award Canada s top honor in science fiction and fantasy writing for best novel of theyear!WWW: Wake: Hugo finalist! Starred Publishers Weekly review!WWW: Watch: Hal Clement Award winner! Audie Award finalist!WWW: Wonder: #1Canadian bestseller! This is Robert J. Sawyer at his very best. Analog Cracking open a RobertJ. Sawyer book is like getting a gift from a friend who visits all the strange and undiscovered places in the world. You can t wait to see what he s going to amaze you with thistime. John ScalziThe Terminal Experiment:Ascientist discovers proof for the existence of the soul. Agreat story; a crackerjack novel. TheGlobe andMail Nebula Award winner!Illegal Alien:Acourtroom drama with an extraterrestrial defendant. Thebest Canadian mystery of the year. TheGlobe andMail Winner of Japan s top SF award!Starplex:The wormholes are open; discovery awaits. Anepic hard-science adventure tempered by human concerns; highly recommended. Library Journal Hugo and Nebula finalist! Rob Sawyer has carried the banner of Asimovian science fiction into the twenty-firstcentury. RobertCharlesWilsonMindscan: A doomed man uploads his consciousness into an artificial body. InSawyer s capable grasp the story positively sings with humor, insight, and depth. SFSite JohnW. Campbell Memorial Award winner!Calculating God: An alien lands in Toronto claiming to have proof for God s existence. The best science-fiction novel of the year. Denver Rocky Mountain News Hugo finalist and Audie winner!Rollback: An elderly couple undergoes a rejuvenation treatment but it fails for one of them. Anovel to be savoured by SF and mainstream readers alike. The Globe andMail Hugo Award finalist! Charming and provocative some of the most outrageous, stimulating speculation since RobertA. Heinlein s Stranger in a Strange Land questioned our tired, timidconventions. PublishersWeeklyThe bestselling Neanderthal Parallax trilogy explores a version of Earth where Neanderthals survived to the present and we did not and a portal that opens up between our world and theirs. Fresh, exhilarating. A dynamic and inspiring trilogy. Highly recommended. TheTorontoStar An uncanny allegory of the human condition. BooksinCanada Sawyer is a brilliant stylist who depicts daily-life events with a shatteredworldview. TheGainesville(Florida)SunFactoring Humanity: Surf the collective unconscious. Sawyer s finest novel to date. Scientifically plausible, fictionally intriguing and ethically important. New Scientist Hugo Award finalist!Frameshift: A genetics thriller. Highly recommended. Library Journal Hugo Award finalist! Sawyer has won himself an international readership by reinvigorating the traditions of hardsciencefiction. NationalPostGolden Fleece: A murder mystery aboard a starship. Sawyer s JASON is the deepest computer character in all of science fiction. Orson Scott Card Aurora Award winner!End of an Era: Discover what really killed the dinosaurs. It s not too much to say that this is one of the most accomplished SF novels of the last 10 years. Quill Quire Seiun Award winner!Rob One of The CanLit30 Quill Quire, the Canadian publishing trade journal, recently released its first-ever list of The CanLit 30: The most influential, innovative, and just plain powerful people in Canadian publishing. Only three authors made the 30-person list: Margaret Atwood, Douglas Coupland, and RobertJ. Sawyer. The write-up about Rob says:RobertJ. Sawyer last year, it felt like the Canuck industry was finally waking up to an entire genre. Not that Sawyer really needed the nod: he already sells more than respectably and has a shelf full of major sci-fi prizes. As a generous mentor to other writers, the proprietor of his own eponymous imprint at Red Deer Press, and a frequent media pundit, Sawyer is the public face of Canadiansci-fi. According to the Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards, RobertJ. Sawyer is the #1 all-time worldwide leader in number of award wins as a science-fiction or fantasy novelist (second place goes to China Mi ville; Stephen King, UrsulaK. LeGuin, and Connie Willis are tied for third place). Rob is also the #1 all-time leader in number of award nominations as a science-fiction or fantasy novelist (second place goes to Stephen King). In June 2016, Rob was inducted into the Order of Canada, thehighest civilian honor bestowed by the Canadian government.Among Rob s honors (in order of receipt):Robert J. Sawyer is one of only eight writers in history and the only Canadian to win all three of the world s top Science Fiction awards for best novel of the year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (the full list of such winners: Paolo Bacigalupi, David Brin, ArthurC. Clarke, Joe Haldeman, Frederik Pohl, Kim Stanley Robinson, RobertJ. Sawyer, and Connie Willis), and he s the first author in thirtyyears to receive a Lifetime Achievement Aurora Award.Rob is also an award-winning scriptwriter and an in-demand keynote speaker. Robert J. Sawyer is by any measure one of the world s leading (and most interesting) science-fiction writers. The Globe and Mail Robert J. Sawyer is a writer of boundless confidence and bold scientific extrapolation. TheNewYorkTimes Robert J. Sawyer is the science fiction genre s northern star in fact, one of the hottest SF writers anywhere. By any reckoning Sawyer is among the most successful Canadian authors ever. Maclean s: Canada s Weekly Newsmagazine Robert J. Sawyer is on a par with giants like Asimov and Heinlein and, perhaps more than any other science fiction writer working today, he understands that it s a genre about ideas. Mystery News Robert J. Sawyer is one of the most popular and successful science fiction authors in the world today. Philosophy Now Robert J. Sawyer is one of the foremost science fiction writers of our generation. SFSite Robert J. Sawyer is arguably the world s top science fiction writer. The Hamilton Spectator Robert J. Sawyer is the 21st century s Asimov, Clarke and Heinlein, all in one. Ethical Society of SaintLouis Robert J. Sawyer is a highly successful and accomplished novelist, a gentle giant of a writer. TheNew York Review of Science Fiction Robert J. Sawyer is the dean of Canadian science fiction. CBCRadio Robert J. Sawyer is Canada s leading SF author. Booklist Robert J. Sawyer is probably the best sci-fi writer Canada has ever produced. PlanetS: Saskatoon s City Magazine Robert J. Sawyer is Canada's leading science fiction writer. Galaxy's Edge Robert J. Sawyer is Canada s premier science fiction writer. Quill Quire Robert J. Sawyer is the dean of Canadian science fiction. TheOttawa Citizen#1 on the Amazon.com Science Fiction Bestsellers List#1 on the Amazon.com Technothriller Bestsellers List#1 on the Amazon.ca Science Fiction Bestsellers List#1 on the Amazon.co.uk Science Fiction Bestsellers List#1 on the Locus Hardcover Bestsellers List#1 on the Locus Paperback Bestsellers List#1 on the Calgary Herald Fiction Bestsellers List#1 on the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix Hardcover Bestsellers List#1 on the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix Paperback Bestsellers List#1 on the Winnipeg Free Press Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers List#1 on the Palm Beach Daily News Combined Fiction and Nonfiction Bestsellers List.His novels have made numerous appearances on the two major top-ten national mainstream bestsellers lists in Canada, covering authors of all nationalities, reaching as high as:#3 on the Fiction Bestsellers List in Maclean s: Canada s Weekly Newsmagazine #7 on the Fiction Bestsellers List in The Globe and Mail: Canada s National Newspaper.And Sawyer titles have simultaneously been #4, #6, and #8 on the Edmonton Journal Fiction Bestsellers List.At Bakka Phoenix Books, the world s oldest extant science-fiction specialty bookstore, Rob s books have been #1 on their lists ofthe bestselling books for the entire year a record-setting nine times:

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