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Robert James Sawyer (born April 29, 1960) is a Canadian science fiction writer. He has had 21 novels published, and his short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories, On Spec, Nature, and many anthologies. Sawyer has won the Nebula Award (1995), the Hugo Award (2003), and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2006).
Sawyer was born in Ottawa and is now a resident of Mississauga.
Sawyer's work frequently explores the intersection between science and religion, with rationalism frequently winning out over mysticism (see especially Far-Seer, The Terminal Experiment, Calculating God, and the three volumes of the Neanderthal Parallax [Hominids, Humans, and Hybrids], plus the short story "The Abdication of Pope Mary III," originally published in Nature, July 6, 2000).
Sawyer often explores the notion of copied or uploaded human consciousness, mind uploading, most fully in his novel Mindscan, but also in Flashforward, Golden Fleece, The Terminal Experiment, "Identity Theft", "Biding Time", and "Shed Skin".
His interest in consciousness studies is also apparent in Wake, which deals with the spontaneous emergence of consciousness in the infrastructure of the World Wide Web. His interest in quantum physics, and especially quantum computing, inform the short stories "You See But You Do Not Observe" (a Sherlock Holmes pastiche) and "Iterations," and the novels Factoring Humanity and Hominids.
SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, plays a role in the plots of Golden Fleece, Factoring Humanity, Mindscan, Rollback, the novelette "Ineluctable," and the short stories "You See But You Do Not Observe" and "Flashes." Sawyer gives cosmology a thorough workout in his far-future Starplex. Real-life science institutions are often used as settings by Sawyer, including TRIUMF in End of an Era, CERN in Flashforward, the Royal Ontario Museum in Calculating God, the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Hominids and its sequels, and the Arecibo Observatory in Rollback.
Another Sawyer hallmark is the mortally ill main character. Pierre Tardivel in Frameshift suffers from Huntington's disease, Thomas Jericho in Calculating God has lung cancer, and Jacob Sullivan in Mindscan has an arteriovenous malformation in his brain; one of the main characters in Rollback vividly suffers from that most fatal illness of all, old age.
Sawyer features Canadian settings and concerns in his novels, all of which are issued by New York houses. His politics are often described as liberal by Canadian standards (although he contributed a story called "The Hand You're Dealt" to the Libertarian SF anthology Free Space, and another called "The Right's Tough" to the Libertarian SF anthology Visions of Liberty). He holds citizenship in both Canada and the United States, and has been known to criticize the politics of both countries. He often has American characters visiting Canada (such as Karen Bessarian in Mindscan and Caitlin Decter in Wake) or Canadian characters visiting the U.S. (such as Pierre Tardivel in Frameshift and Mary Vaughan in Humans and Hybrids) as a way of comparing and contrasting the perceived values of the two countries.
Sawyer's simple style and clear prose have been compared by Orson Scott Card to those of Isaac Asimov. He has a tendency to include pop-culture references in his novels (his fondness for the original Star Trek, The Six Million Dollar Man, and Planet of the Apes is often evident).
Sawyer's work often crosses over from science fiction to mystery; he won both Canada's top SF award (the Prix Aurora Award) and its top mystery-fiction award (the Arthur Ellis Award) for his 1993 short story "Just Like Old Times." Illegal Alien is a courtroom drama with an extraterrestrial defendant; Hominids puts one Neanderthal on trial by his peers for the apparent murder of another Neanderthal; Mindscan has the rights of uploaded consciousnesses explored in a Michigan probate court; and Golden Fleece, Fossil Hunter, The Terminal Experiment, Frameshift, and Flashforward are all, in part, murder mysteries. Of Sawyer's shorter SF works, the novella "Identity Theft" and the short stories "Biding Time," "Flashes," "Iterations," "Shed Skin," "The Stanley Cup Caper," "You See But You Do Not Observe," "The Hand You're Dealt," and the aforementioned "Just Like Old Times" are all also crime or mystery fiction.
In addition to his own writing, Sawyer edits the Robert J. Sawyer Books science-fiction imprint for Red Deer Press, part of Canadian publisher Fitzhenry & Whiteside; contributes to The New York Review of Science Fiction; is The Canadian Encyclopedia's authority on science fiction; and is a judge for L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future contest.
In May 2009, ABC ordered 13 episodes of hour-long dramatic TV series FlashForward for the 2009–2010 season, based on Sawyer's similarly titled novel, after successful production in February and March 2009 of a pilot episode scripted by David S. Goyer and Brannon Braga, directed by Goyer, and starring Joseph Fiennes and Sonya Walger. After some adjustments, the first season was set to consist of 22 episodes. Sawyer is story consultant on each episode of the series and penned the 19th episode, titled "Course Correction".
Sawyer wrote the original series bible for Charlie Jade, an hour-long science-fiction TV series that first aired in 2005–2006, and he did conceptual work in 2003 for reviving Robotech. He has also written and narrated documentaries about science fiction for CBC Radio's Ideas series, and he hosted the 17-part weekly half-hour documentary series Supernatural Investigator for Canada's Vision TV, which premiered January 27, 2009. He provided analysis of the British science fiction series Doctor Who for the CBC's online documentary The Planet of the Doctor, frequently comments on science fiction movies for TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies, and co-edited an essay collection in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Star Trek with David Gerrold, titled Boarding the Enterprise.
Sawyer has taught science-fiction writing at the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, Humber College, and the Banff Centre. In 2000, he served as Writer-in-Residence at the Richmond Hill, Ontario, Public Library. In 2003, he was Writer-in-Residence at the Toronto Public Library's Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy (the first person to hold this post since Judith Merril herself in 1987). In 2006, he was Writer-in-Residence at the Odyssey Writing Workshop. Also in 2006, he was the Edna Staebler Writer-in-Residence at the Kitchener Public Library in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario, following on the Region of Waterloo's choice of Sawyer's Hominids as the "One Book, One Community" title that all 490,000 residents were encouraged to read in 2005. In 2007 he was the Berton House Writer-in-Residence at Berton House in Dawson City. In 2009, he was the first-ever Writer-in-Residence at the Canadian Light Source, Canada's national synchrotron facility in Saskatoon.
Sawyer is a frequent keynote speaker about technology topics, and has served as a consultant to Canada's Federal Department of Justice on the shape future genetics laws should take.
About author and audiobooks:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Sawyer |
The Neanderthal Parallax trilogy
Robert J. Sawyer - Hominids (read by Jonathan Davis)
Robert J. Sawyer - Humans (read by Jonathan Davis)
Robert J. Sawyer - Hybrids (read by Jonathan Davis)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/0b773972563d58b6ed53e4eb96b31b1b/Hominids.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/91dcaba4ab44758c86bbc8dfae6ffaf8/Humans.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/50b419eead1ad5d68b8d94b195f94015/Hybrids.rar.html |
The WWW trilogy
Robert J. Sawyer - Wake (read by Jessica Almasy, A. C. Fellner, Jennifer VanDyck and Marc Vietor)
Robert J. Sawyer - Watch (read by Jessica Almasy, Marc Vietor, Oliver Wyman and Jennifer VanDyck)
Robert J. Sawyer - Wonder (read by Jessica Almasy, Marc Vietor, Oliver Wyman and Anthony Haden Salerno)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/db156d79f62e6b5c353622fca6e54eee/Wake.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9198298f1483a3d468423d048d0af791/Watch.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7bf16eaab4857f8e93374e6c760d65f0/Wonder.rar.html |
The Quintaglio Ascension trilogy
Robert J. Sawyer - Far-Seer (read by Anne Saunders)
Robert J. Sawyer - Fossil Hunter (read by Anne Saunders)
Robert J. Sawyer - Foreigner (read by Anne Saunders)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/d79094f91fb969a711fea3780480edf6/Far_Seer.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1c4ab29fcac5a2ac7480158ae5245504/Fossil_Hunter.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c7cacd8757f24aa6560a65b1b248d161/Foreigner.rar.html |
Other works
Robert J. Sawyer - The Terminal Experiment (read by Paul Hecht)
Robert J. Sawyer - Starplex (read by Unknown narrator)
Robert J. Sawyer - Frameshift (read by Unknown narrator)
Robert J. Sawyer - Illegal Alien (read by Unknown narrator)
Robert J. Sawyer - Factoring Humanity (read by John Rammel)
Robert J. Sawyer - Flashforward (read by Mark Deakins)
Robert J. Sawyer - Calculating God (read by Jonathan Davis)
Robert J. Sawyer - Mindscan (read by Unknown narrator)
Robert J. Sawyer - Rollback (read by George K. Wilson)
Robert J. Sawyer - Identity Theft And Other Stories (read by Unknown narrator)
Robert J. Sawyer - Triggers (read by Jeff Woodman)
Robert J. Sawyer - Red Planet Blues (read by Christian Rummel)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/52441579af12b54b1410781b2506b5c0/The_Terminal_Experiment.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1e5a45f7a59aff0c589d38f6d15f3e98/Starplex.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/21dcfe27e840154a01cb3fc35275a938/Frameshift.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b7d38dd619dc0a0548b35721c31620cd/Illegal_Alien.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3718a7375c43dc00f283382dac240b1a/Factoring_Humanity.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/af9dc5c698724bea0fec706689a06c8a/Flashforward.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/21db7f4b2fb012d2444f2cac3bcb2005/Calculating_God.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c960780f4f3db3a83b13dcd2e82ab94e/Mindscan.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d8f8c2664d927e561446906478b1f211/Rollback.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/529ff02278ac36a526236b639dbabb4b/Identity_Theft_And_Other_Stories.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d8765c2895584989b466e04194357318/Triggers.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f51fa5e417bd19d6c1eade2d8bca5c08/Red_Planet_Blues.rar.html |
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