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About the Author

Robert J. Sawyer is one of only seven writers in history to win all three of the world’s 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 thirty-eight national and international awards for his fiction, including nine Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards (“Auroras”) and the Toronto Public Library Celebrates Reading Award, one of Canada’s most significant literary honors. He’s also won Analog magazine’s Analytical Laboratory Award, the Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award, and the Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award, all for best short story of the year, as well as 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.

Rob has won the world’s largest cash prize for SF writing, Spain’s 6,000-euro Premio UPC de Ciencia Ficcion, an unprecedented three times, and he’s also won a trio of Japanese Seiun awards for best foreign novel of the year. 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. His nonfiction has appeared in Archaeology, Maclean’s, and Sky & Telescope, and he edits the acclaimed “Robert J. Sawyer Books” SF imprint for Canada’s Red Deer Press. He’s also a frequent TV guest, with over two hundred appearances to his credit, and has been keynote speaker at many science, technology, and business conferences.

Born in Ottawa in 1960, Rob now lives in Mississauga, a city just west of Toronto, with poet Carolyn Clink, his wife of twenty-two years.

For more information about Rob, and access to his blog, visit his World Wide Web site, which contains more than one million words of material, including a readers’ group guide for this novel. You’ll find it at sfwriter.com.