Identity Theft and other stories (collection)

About the Author

Robert J. Sawyer is one of only seven writers in history to win all three of the worlds top awards for best science fiction novel of the year: the Hugo (which he won for Hominids), the Nebula (which he won for The Terminal Experiment), and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (which he won for Mindscan); the other winners of all three are David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke, Joe Haldeman, Frederik Pohl, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Connie Willis.

In total, Rob has won forty-one national and international awards for his fiction, including ten Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards (“Auroras”), three Japanese Seiun awards for Best Foreign Novel of the Year, and the Premio UPC de Ciencia Fictión, the world’s largest cash prize for SF, which he’s also won three times. In addition, Rob has won the Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award, the Analytical Laboratory award from Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine, and the Crime Writers of Canadas Arthur Ellis Award, all for Best Short Story of the Year. He’s also won the Collectors Award for Most Collectable Author of the Year, as selected by the clientele of Barry R. Levin Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature, the world’s leading SF rare-book dealer, and the Galaxy Award—Chinas top honor in SF—for Most Popular Foreign Author. In addition, he’s received an honorary doctorate from Laurentian University and the Alumni Award of Distinction from Ryerson University.

Rob’s books are top-ten national mainstream bestsellers in Canada, and have hit number one on the bestsellers’ list published by Locus, the American trade journal of the SF field. He edits the acclaimed Robert J. Sawyer Books science-fiction imprint for Fitzhenry & Whiteside; is a frequent TV guest, with over two hundred appearances to his credit; and has been keynote speaker at many science, technology, and business conferences.

Rob, who lives in Mississauga, Ontario, with his wife Carolyn, was the first SF author to have a web site, and that site has now grown to contain more than a million words of text. Please visit it at sfwriter.com.