Robert J. Sawyer is the author of the bestselling “Neanderthal Parallax” and “Quintaglio Ascension” trilogies plus ten standalone science-fiction novels. His Hominids won the Hugo Award for Best Novel of 2003, and his The Terminal Experiment won the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s Nebula Award for Best Novel of 1995.
Rob has also won eight Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards (“Auroras”)—four for year’s best novel, and four for year’s best short story. He’s also won three Japanese Seiun Awards for Best Foreign Novel of the Year (for End of an Era, Frameshift, and Illegal Alien), as well as the Collectors Award for Most Collectable Author of 2003, presented by Barry R. Levin Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature, the world’s leading SF rare-book dealer.
Rob edits the Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint for Red Deer Press; is profiled in Canadian Who’s Who; has been interviewed over 200 times on TV; and has given talks and readings at countless venues, including the Library of Congress and the Canadian embassy in Tokyo. Born in Ottawa in 1960, he now lives just west of Toronto, with poet Carolyn Clink, his wife of twenty years.
For more information about Rob and his work, visit his World Wide Web site—which was the first SF author site ever and now contains more than one million words of material—at www.sfwriter.com.