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Robert J. Sawyer gave a keynote address at the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference in Tucson in 2010, and he will speak again at that conference in 2016. He’s also lectured about the science of consciousness at the Googleplex, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, and TEDxManitoba, and he has published in both of the world’s top scientific journals,
Science
(guest editorial) and
Nature
(short story).

Rob is one of only eight writers ever to win all three of the world’s top awards for best science-fiction novel of the year: the Hugo (which he won in 2003 for
Hominids),
the Nebula (which he won in 1996 for
The Terminal Experiment),
and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (which he won in 2006 for
Mindscan).
According to
The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards,
he has won more awards for his novels than anyone else in the history of the science-fiction and fantasy fields, and in 2013 he became the first author in thirty years, and the youngest author ever, to receive a Lifetime Achievement Aurora Award from the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association.

Rob holds honorary doctorates from the University of Winnipeg and Laurentian University, and in 2009 he served as the first-ever writer-in-residence at the Canadian Light Source, Canada’s national synchrotron, a position created especially for him. His novel
FlashForward
was the basis for the ABC TV series of the same name, and he was a scriptwriter for that program.

A resident of Mississauga, Ontario, his website and blog are at
sfwriter.com
, and on Twitter and Facebook he’s
RobertJSawyer
.

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