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ROBERT J. SAWYER
Hugo and Nebula Winner

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Canadian Science Fiction Home Page

Canadian Science Fiction is a wide and varied field, with many authors of international stature working within it: on a per capita basis, Canada has more world-class science-fiction writers than any country on Earth. Below are essays, links, and resources about science fiction by Canadians.

Overview:

An Introduction to Canadian Science Fiction
Award-Winning Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy: a comprehensive list

Essays:

Introduction to Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best Science Fiction
Domestic Canadian SF? You Bet!
A Tale of Two Stories: an essay about Canadian vs. American SF
Introduction to Frederick Philip Grove's Consider Her Ways
Toronto: A Writer's Tour
Science Fiction: Taken For Granted (on the Canada Council for the Arts)

Newsnotes and Lists:

Northern Lights: ten years of news notes about Canadian SF authors
Canadian SF Works Database (founded by Marcel Gagné and Robert J. Sawyer)
List of Toronto-area SF&F authors
Ten recommended Canadian SF novels
Table of contents from Distant Early Warnings
Table of contents from Tesseracts 6
Table of contents from Ark of Ice
Table of contents from North of Infinity
Table of contents from Northern Stars
Table of contents from Crossing the Line
The Robert J. Sawyer Newsletter

Fiction:

Three short-short Canadian SF Stories by Terence M. Green, Robert J. Sawyer, and Andrew Weiner, introduced by John Robert Colombo

Encyclopedia Galactica entries on:

Interviews with or profiles of Canadian SF authors:

Carolyn Clink
John Robert Colombo: 2009 / 2006
Terence M. Green: 1992 / 1988
Donald Kingsbury
Judith Merril
Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens
Robert J. Sawyer: 2007 / 1998
Edo van Belkom: 2000 / 1997
A. E. van Vogt
Robert Charles Wilson: Introduction to "Julian: A Christmas Story"

Science Fiction: The Interdisciplinary Genre:

(The biggest and best academic conference ever held about Canadian science fiction, McMaster University, September 2013)

Website
Program, including abstracts and presenter biographies
Conference summary

Reviews of Canadian Science Fiction Books:

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (from The Ottawa Citizen)
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (from Maclean's)
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling (from The Globe and Mail)
Starcrosser by John Ibbitson (from The Canadian Book Review Annual)
Nighteyes by Garfield Reeves-Stevens (from The Canadian Book Review Annual)
Novels by Robert J. Sawyer
Distant Signals by Andrew Weiner (from The Canadian Book Review Annual)

Robert J. Sawyer Books

The science-fiction imprint of Red Deer Press, a Fitzhenry & Whiteside company, edited by Robert J. Sawyer and publishing Canadian authors including Terence M. Green, Matthew Hughes, Danita Maslan, Karl Schroeder, and Andrew Weiner, plus the anthology Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best Science Fiction.

Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best Science Fiction:

Introduction (providing a summary of the state of Canadian SF as of 2009)
Table of Contents
Blog entries

Tesseracts 6:

Introduction (providing a summary of the state of Canadian SF as of 1997)
Table of Contents
Afterword by Carolyn Clink
Notes About the Contributors — mini-biographies of 21 Canadian SF writers
Some Insights from the Editors

Crossing the Line:

Introduction
Table of Contents
Notes About the Contributors — mini-biographies of 11 Canadian SF writers

Aurora Awards:

Other:

Is Robert J. Sawyer part of Canadian Literature?
Arthur Ellis Awards
Prisoners of Gravity, a 139-episode series about science fiction
The founding of the Canadian Region of SFWA
Ontario Hydra, Canada's oldest association of SF professionals
Bakka SF Bookstore moves
2006 special report on Canadian SF
On Canadian film-option contracts

Science Fiction Writer ROBERT J. SAWYER Hugo and Nebula Winner