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Robert J. Sawyer

(1960) Science Fiction Writer Canada

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Robert J. Sawyer is a science fiction writer from Canada, best known for WWW: Watch.

Quick Facts About Robert J. Sawyer

Born: April 29, 1960
Nationality: Canada
Profession: Science Fiction Writer
Notable works: WWW: Watch

About Robert J. Sawyer

Robert James Sawyer is a Canadian and American writer of science fiction. He is the author of 25 published novels, and his short fiction has appeared in magazines and journals such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories, On Spec, and Nature, in addition to several anthologies. He has won many writing awards, including the Nebula Award for Best Novel (1995), the Hugo Award for Best Novel (2003), the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2006), the Robert A. Heinlein Award (2017), and multiple Aurora Awards.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence Hugo Award for Best Novel Nebula Award for Best Novel John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Member of the Order of Canada Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign-Language Short Story

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Everything that I can do to ground the story in reality helps make it harder for people to be dismissive of it.

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Everything

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One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it…

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Science

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Many science-fiction writers, such as Gregory Benford, are working scientists. Many others, such as Joe Haldeman, have advanced degrees in science. Others,…

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Journalism

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George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future it predicted failed to come to pass. Rather, it was…

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Come

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Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot outwit our successors. So unless we…

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Building

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All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into whatever passes for the…

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Artificial intelligence

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The traditional route to success in science fiction is by making a name for yourself in short fiction, so people who read…

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Books

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I'm a rationalist. And I can see no evidence for a benevolent and interventionist creator.

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Creator

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Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same…

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Aspect

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It's possible that there is a guiding intelligence in our universe. I don't see a lot of personal evidence for an interventionist-on-an-individual-basis-deity.…

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Believe

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If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing…

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Adultery

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Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.

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Government

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Bradbury was the one guy who was published in places like the 'Saturday Evening Post.' He was the guy who brought science…

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Saturday

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We're wired somehow to want to be part of something bigger. And we quest to understand what our role is.

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Part

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My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to think that science fiction works…

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Goals

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An agnostic is someone who believes the nature of the Divine is unknowable... and in that sense, I'm willing to subscribe to…

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Agnostic

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