Drog
Mon, Feb-03-03, 17:02
Sci-Fi Today (http://www.scifitoday.com) is a forum for the
discussion of science and science fiction, with a theme of
how fiction becomes reality, and how truth is often stranger
than fiction.
This week, we have the privilege of interviewing one of the
top talents in science fiction today, Robert J. Sawyer. He has
been called "the dean of Canadian science fiction" by The
Ottawa Citizen newspaper and "among the most successful
Canadian authors ever" by Maclean's: Canada's Weekly
Newsmagazine. Rob was born in Ottawa in 1960, and now lives
just west of Toronto with his wife, poet Carolyn Clink. His
award-winning web site has been called "the best author's page
on the Internet", containing over 900,000 words of short
stories, sample chapters, articles, interviews and reviews. He
is the former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy
Writers of America (SFWA), the world's oldest and largest
association of science-fiction professionals, and was the
first non-American ever to hold that post.
Rob has won twenty-two national and international writing
awards, including the 1995 Nebula Award for The Terminal
Experiment. He has been been a finalist for the Hugo Award
(science fiction's international readers' choice award) six
times with the novels The Terminal Experiment, Starplex,
Frameshift, Factoring Humanity and Calculating God and for the
short story The Hand You're Dealt. His last novel Hominids is
the first book in the Neanderthal Parallax trilogy and is on
the Preliminary Nebula Award Ballot. The second volume,
Humans, has just now become available in stores.
In SFT interviews, YOU ask the questions. Get a free account
and post your questions all week long. You are strongly
encouraged to also rate each other's questions during the
week. At the end of Friday, the 10 top-rated questions will
be sent to Robert Sawyer and his responses will be posted
when ready.
discussion of science and science fiction, with a theme of
how fiction becomes reality, and how truth is often stranger
than fiction.
This week, we have the privilege of interviewing one of the
top talents in science fiction today, Robert J. Sawyer. He has
been called "the dean of Canadian science fiction" by The
Ottawa Citizen newspaper and "among the most successful
Canadian authors ever" by Maclean's: Canada's Weekly
Newsmagazine. Rob was born in Ottawa in 1960, and now lives
just west of Toronto with his wife, poet Carolyn Clink. His
award-winning web site has been called "the best author's page
on the Internet", containing over 900,000 words of short
stories, sample chapters, articles, interviews and reviews. He
is the former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy
Writers of America (SFWA), the world's oldest and largest
association of science-fiction professionals, and was the
first non-American ever to hold that post.
Rob has won twenty-two national and international writing
awards, including the 1995 Nebula Award for The Terminal
Experiment. He has been been a finalist for the Hugo Award
(science fiction's international readers' choice award) six
times with the novels The Terminal Experiment, Starplex,
Frameshift, Factoring Humanity and Calculating God and for the
short story The Hand You're Dealt. His last novel Hominids is
the first book in the Neanderthal Parallax trilogy and is on
the Preliminary Nebula Award Ballot. The second volume,
Humans, has just now become available in stores.
In SFT interviews, YOU ask the questions. Get a free account
and post your questions all week long. You are strongly
encouraged to also rate each other's questions during the
week. At the end of Friday, the 10 top-rated questions will
be sent to Robert Sawyer and his responses will be posted
when ready.