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	Robert J. Sawyer - Interview
		Robert Sawyer had just won his first 'big one' award - the Hugo for 'Best Novel' - at the 2003 Worldcon, Torcon 3, so it was a good time to catch the man for a few words.
		Robert Sawyer: Certainly, there's the Tor stable, consisting of such authors as Charles de Lint, Candas Jane Dorsey, Terence M. Green, Ed Greenwood, Donald Kingsbury, Spider Robinson, Karl Schroeder, Peter Watts, Robert Charles Wilson, and a few others.
		Robert Sawyer: Well, evolution is still a subject of debate and contention, and the beautiful underlying principles need to be reinforced in the public consciousness as often as possible.
	www.concatenation.org /interviews/sawyer.html (1157 words)

	Robert J. Sawyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert J. Sawyer (born April 29, 1960) is a Canadian science fiction writer, dubbed "the dean of Canadian science fiction" by the Ottawa Citizen in 1999.
		Stylistically, Sawyer is known for simple, clear prose, in the mode of Isaac Asimov; this perhaps comes from Sawyer's original career in the 1980s as a writer of nonfiction for magazines (his specialties were personal computing, personal finance, and the broadcasting industry).
		Sawyer is active in other writers' organizations, including the Crime Writers of Canada and The Writers' Union of Canada (for which he has served on the membership committee), and he is a member of the Writers Guild of Canada and the Horror Writers Association.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_J._Sawyer (1871 words)

	Sir Robert Sawyer - LoveToKnow 1911
		SIR ROBERT SAWYER (1633-1692), English lawyer, a younger son of Sir Edmund Sawyer, auditor of the city of London, was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he distinguished himself in classical learning, being the first Craven Scholar in 1648.
		He acquired a good practice at the bar, and in 1673 he was elected to the House of Commons, where for a short time in 1678 he was speaker.
		On the flight of James II., Sawyer maintained that the throne had thereby been abdicated, and took a prominent part in the debates on the constitutional questions then brought to the front.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_Robert_Sawyer (347 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Mindscan
		Indeed, Sawyer is one of a handful of Science Fiction authors working in the field today who is able to blend together a myriad of philosophical, moral, and even legal concepts, with futuristic extrapolations based on real scientific principles.
		Sawyer's previous work is filled with this kind of careful balancing act of scientific rationalism and philosophical musing.
		In terms of the structure of the novel itself, Sawyer does a wonderful job of alternating between the two versions of Jake, with both "individuals" struggling to find their place in the world and insisting that they are the real Jake Sullivan.
	www.sfsite.com /05b/mi200.htm (1240 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		Sawyer is past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), the world's oldest and largest association of science-fiction professionals.
		Sawyer: Despite my grousing related to the Hugo, the Harry Potter phenomenon is fabulous for science fiction.
		Sawyer: Oh, yes, I'm away from home for a couple of months out of every year, and a good part of that is promoting my books at science-fiction conventions, in bookstores, and so on.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue235/interview2.html (1878 words)

	Robert Sawyer (murderer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sawyer and Lane then carried the victim into the living room and dropped her face down on the floor.
		Sawyer and Lane were indicted for first degree murder by the Jefferson Parish Grand Jury.
		Sawyer was convicted by a unanimous jury, which then proceeded to sentence defendant to death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Sawyer_(murderer) (958 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Canadians capture top 2 spots in sci-fi prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sawyer was given the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the novel of the year at a banquet at the University of Kansas in Lawrence on Friday night.
		Sawyer is now the only Canadian in a select group of writers who have won all three of the top science-fiction awards.
		Sawyer's 16th novel tells the story of a young man, Jake Sullivan, who copies his consciousness into an artificial body because he believes his biological body is about to expire due to illness.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2006/07/08/scifi-mindscan-award.html (1723 words)

	Amazon.de: Calculating God: English Books: Robert J. Sawyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		And while Robert J. Sawyer doesn't exactly make peace with evangelicals on the issue, Calculating God has to be one of the more thoughtful and sympathetic SF portrayals you'll find of religion and intelligent design.
		Robert J. Sawyer burst onto the science-fiction scene with all the force of a supernova, winning the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1995 before most SF fans even knew his name.
		I hope Sawyer himself has never battled cancer but his story of someone doing so seems absolutely accurate to me. Of course there is also an SF story here, about aliens visiting Toronto and the search for scientific verificiation of the existence of God.
	www.amazon.de /Calculating-God-Robert-J-Sawyer/dp/0812580354 (1687 words)

	Review: Robert Sawyer's Hominids: It's Not Your Father's Cavemen Story, reviewed by John Teehan
		Robert Sawyer's latest novel, Hominids (Tor, 2002) exemplifies this by braving such stormy matters as privacy, religion, and the origins of man. It begins with the discovery of a Neanderthal in our midst.
		Sawyer makes careful use of archaeology and sociology, however, to create a reasonably postulated world of modern Neanderthals not only to show us a world that might have been, but also to allow us to examine ourselves through the eyes of an alien culture.
		Sawyer's balanced approach is especially important because, like Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio, Hominids addresses the highly controversial debate between evolution and creationism.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2002/20020722/hominids.shtml (1977 words)

	Amazon.ca: Far Seer: Books: Robert Sawyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sawyer (Golden Fleece) postulates a world (not the earth) in which dinosaurs, called Quintaglios, have evolved to humanlike levels of civilization--cities, formal government and religion.
		Sawyer does a fine job presenting the physiological features of Quintaglios but is less convincing in making one young stargazer play the combined roles in Quintaglio society of Pythagoras, Magellan, Copernicus, Galileo, da Vinci and Jesus of Nazareth.
		To borrow a phrase from an earlier review of Far-Seer, Robert Sawyer is the "master of biological speculation." After reading five of this author's books, I'll add my spin on that statement by saying he is the sci fi master, period.
	www.amazon.ca /Far-Seer-Robert-Sawyer/dp/0441225519 (1152 words)

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		Sawyer is the only writer in history to win the top Science Fiction awards in the United States, Japan, France, and Spain.
		Sawyer’s novels are top-ten national mainstream bestsellers in Canada, appearing on the Globe and Mail and Maclean's bestsellers' lists, and they've hit #1 on the bestsellers' list published by Locus, the U.S. trade journal of the Science Fiction field.
		Sawyer has taught writing at the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, Humber College, the National University of Ireland, and the Banff Centre.
	www.lastsfa.org /SawyerPressRelease.doc (775 words)

	Whatever: Robert Sawyer, American
		In the meantime, here are other places you'll be able to see Robert J. Sawyer this year, including many places in the United States, where, it is to be noted, he may freely travel, because he's an American citizen and not just a dirty, dirty Canadian.
		That's all that was necessary for Robert Sawyer's author friend: he could have interpreted it to mean that homeland security is super paranoid and restricting Robert Sawyer's travel for no good reason.
		Sawyer is just arguing about how the long tail on the Bell curve shouldn't ruin it for everyone...
	www.scalzi.com /whatever/004206.html (2395 words)

	12.23.2005 - Governor appoints energy professor emeritus Robert Sawyer to chair Air Resources Board
		Sawyer is the Class of 1935 Professor of Energy Emeritus at UC Berkeley, where he has conducted extensive research and taught air pollutant emissions and their control, energy conversion, combustion, fire safety and rocket and jet propulsion since 1966.
		Sawyer is a member of the ARB International Diesel Retrofit Advisory Committee and previously served as a member of the ARB from 1975 to 1976.
		Sawyer has authored or co-authored more than 350 technical publications and has earned the Berkeley Citation and the Soichiro Honda Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2005/12/23_sawyer.shtml (458 words)

	Interview: Robert Sawyer
		Robert J. Sawyer is the author of numerous stories and novels, most notably The Terminal Experiment, which won the 1995 Nebula Award.
		But, you know, the field literally was better off in the 1960s when science fiction writers like Mike Resnick and Robert Silverberg supplemented their income by writing pornography than it is today when writers like (and you can fill in the blank) are writing Star Wars, or Star Trek, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels.
		But one of them is that, a friend of mine Robert Runte, is a critic, and he's got this great quip, and it's pretty true.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Jun00/interview_robert_sawyer.htm (5857 words)

	Amazon.com: Calculating God: Books: Robert J. Sawyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Robert J. Sawyer writes excellent stuff, and this book seems to be as good a place as any to start (both reading and reviewing).
		These are well done; Sawyer is right on the money in his characterizations both of the shortcomings of Darwinian theory and of the "fine-tuned" nature of the universe.
		Sawyer managed to convince the reader that intelligent design was two times more likely by adding in two other planets and species with similar or identical laws of physics.
	www.amazon.com /Calculating-God-Robert-J-Sawyer/dp/0312867131 (3358 words)

	Amazon.ca: Iterations: Books: Robert J. Sawyer,James Alan Gardner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sawyer has a gift for casting jarringly original ideas in lucid, sharp-edged prose that mainstream-fiction as well as sf readers should appreciate.
		While this question seems a departure from the normal run of "speculative fiction" [and Sawyer rarely strays into the arena of "space opera"] he uses this to raise some disturbing questions.
		Sawyer is a master at getting at the heart of issues considered but fleetingly by most.
	www.amazon.ca /Iterations-Robert-J-Sawyer/dp/0889953031 (787 words)

	Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer
		Robert Sawyer's books have always been about big ideas, and Flashforward is no exception.
		Sawyer finds intriguing ways to explore all the possibilities, both by placing the various characters in the novel in decidedly uncomfortable positions, and by inserting occasional "News Digest" headlines that toss out all sorts of interesting premises.
		(Sawyer is Canadian.) Like Sawyer's most recent novel (Hybrids), Flashforward prominently features the United Nations as the go-to guys for world crisis, and shows the inherent dangers of evil American handguns.
	www.scifidimensions.com /May04/flashforward.htm (863 words)

	Robert J. Sawyer: The Terminal Experiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When I first became aware of Robert Sawyer, his books had cute little dinosaurs on the covers and I avoided them.
		His wife has begun to have an affair with a co-worker (as soon as Sawyer describes how perfect their relationship is, you know she's going to have an affair) and Hobson's father-in-law dies because of a medicinal reaction.
		Sawyer is writing a mystery with this book, and, to a certain extent, succeeds.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/sawyer.html (412 words)

	Amazon.com: Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax): Books: Robert J. Sawyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sawyer uses quantum physics at this time to explain how Neanderthals became the dominate species on the Earth of their parallel universe.
		Sawyer doesn't comment that Neanderthals started out more peaceful, but rather that the introduction of a monitoring sentient-computer wrist implant helped, among other things, monitor any criminal activities and that the recordings of these activities can be played back in court for unambiguous evidence of guilt.
		The trouble with Robert Sawyer is that his deep interest in cultural, moral, religious and philosophical aspects continually get in the way of his story.
	amazon.com /Hominids-Neanderthal-Parallax-Robert-Sawyer/dp/0765345005 (2693 words)

	Interview: Robert J. Sawyer
		Sawyer first began publishing science fiction with a short story sale to The Village Voice in 1981.
		Last week Sawyer sat down with Science Fiction Weekly to answer questions submitted by our readers about his views on science fiction, reading and the next millennium.
		In a profile of me last month, The Halifax Mail-Star newspaper said, "Sawyer's novels -- intelligent, literate, and immensely readable explorations of the biggest ideas there are -- prove that science fiction is now literature." I couldn't have asked for a more pleasing summation of exactly what I'm trying to do.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue31/interview.html (1741 words)

	Amazon.com: Mindscan: Books: Robert J. Sawyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sawyer presents a realistic scenario for his exploration of the reaction of the "loved ones" resulting in most of the story playing out in and around a US court room.
		Sawyer has created a complex and very human tale of individuals thriving for their own, unique, personally fulfilling lives.
		Sawyer's novel raises intriguing questions about what it means to be human, and whether a flesh-and-blood body is really necessary to obtain the "human" label.
	www.amazon.com /Mindscan-Robert-J-Sawyer/dp/0765349752 (2820 words)

	Mrs. Robert Sawyer or Independence?
		Sawyer, our most popular novelty in 1927 was produced at the Independence Gardens and is unique in being the first pink Water Lily of the viviparous type, all others being blue.
		In a historical article in the same catalog, Robert Sawyer is named as the hybridizer of N.
		In Robert Sawyer's 1928 and 1934 editions of his book "Water Gardens and Goldfish", he describes the color of N.
	www.victoria-adventure.org /waterlilies/walter_sawyer_independence.html (370 words)

	Review of the Robert Sawyer novel Calculating God
		Basically, Robert Sawyer has reviewed much of the evidence surrounding the weak anthropic principle (and old Concatenation hands may recall that I reviewed Barrow and Tipler's The Anthropic Cosmological Principle back in our first paper edition in 1987).
		Now Sawyer has reviewed it in the form of an SF story with fairly standard characters thrown in for good measure (and yet another ill protagonist as per Sawyer's Frameshift reviewed elsewhere on the Concat site).
		Robert Sawyer is clearly a bit of a polymath within the sciences.
	www.concatenation.org /frev/calcgod.html (994 words)

	Kenneth Robert Sawyer, Captain, United States Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kenneth Robert Sawyer was born on September 1, 1942.
		On February 12, 1969 at the age of 26, Kenneth Robert Sawyer gave his life in the service of our country in South Vietnam, Long Khanh Province.
		NOTE: Captain Sawyer is buried in the same section at Arlington National Cemetery as his father, Robert K.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /krsawyer.htm (71 words)

	Sawyer,Robert Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Sawyer, the bestselling writer, hits the peak of his powers in this trilogy about the world and a parallel one in which Neanderthals became the dominant intelligent species.
		But the original version of Jake, consigned to die on the far side of the moon, is demanding the return of his rights of personhood.
		Robert J. Sawyer, author of "The Terminal Experiment" (1995 Nebula Award for best novel), brings keen insight into the ramifications of the latest scientific breakthroughs to "Frameshift".
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Sawyer,Robert (1313 words)

	Locus Online: Robert J. Sawyer interview excerpts
		It was followed by the "Quintaglio Ascension" trilogy, set on a planet of intelligent dinosaurs, Far-Seer (1992), Fossil Hunter (1993), and Foreigner (1994); then by End of an Era (1994), a time travel novel also concerning dinosaurs.
		The Terminal Experiment (1995) won both the Aurora Award and SFWA's Nebula Award, and was a Hugo finalist, as were several of Sawyer's subsequent novels, which include Starplex (1996), Frameshift (1997), Illegal Alien (1997), Factoring Humanity (1998), Flashforward (1999), and Calculating God (2000).
		Sawyer has published one collection of short fiction, Iterations (2002), has edited several anthologies, and is past president of SFWA.
	www.locusmag.com /2003/Issue02/Sawyer.html (705 words)

	SF Signal: Robert J. Sawyer and the Definition of Science Fiction
		SF author Robert J. Sawyer is interviewed in the December 2005 issue of The Internet Review of Science Fiction.
		It's hard to fully understand the definitions without showing examples of what is and is not science fiction (at least within the realm of things that are considered by some to be science fiction).
		The argument is an attempt to discover a common element in a wide number of cases, and explain away exceptions to the proposed common element.
	www.sfsignal.com /archives/003347.html (1618 words)

	Author Robert J. Sawyer: Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Memorial Award-winning Science Fiction Writer
		On July 7, 2006, Mindscan, the sixteenth novel by science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer, won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year — the world's top juried prize for science fiction.
		Robert J. Sawyer's 17th science fiction novel, Rollback, will be released in hardcover by Tor in April 2007 — and it's currently being serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
		"Robert J. Sawyer is the science fiction genre's northern star — in fact, one of the hottest SF writers anywhere.
	www.sfwriter.com (866 words)

	Amazon.com: Frameshift: Books: Robert J. Sawyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sawyer covers everything from Huntington's disease, telepathy, evil nazis, neanderthals, crooked insurance companies, and genetics in less than 350 pages and makes it all work smoothly.
		Robert J. Sawyer even mentions one of my favorite movies in the novel, Judgment at Nuremburg, which may very well be the ultimate Nazi trial movie; but the novel completely fails to live up to the greatness of that incredible film.
		Robert J. Sawyer gives us none of that, and I felt cheated by the quick death of the villain.
	www.amazon.com /Frameshift-Robert-J-Sawyer/dp/0812571088 (2832 words)

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