Robert J. Sawyer is one of only eight writers ever to win all three of the science-fiction field’s top awards for best 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).

The ABC TV series FlashForward is based on his Aurora Award-winning novel of the same name, and he serves as consultant on the TV series and wrote the 19th episode, “Course Correction.”

His other novels include Starplex, Frameshift, Factoring Humanity, Calculating God, Humans, Rollback, and Wake, all of which were Hugo Award finalists; in total he’s authored 22 novels. His latest is Red Planet Blues.

In 2008, Rob won China’s Galaxy Award, that country’s top honor in SF, for "Most Popular Foreign Author." He’s won Japan’s top SF award, the Seiun, for best foreign novel three times, and Spain's 6,000-euro Premio UPC de Ciencia Ficción an unprecedented three times as well. In addition, he’s won Analog's Analytical Laboratory Award, the Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award, and Science Fiction Chronicle’s Reader Award, all for best short story of the year.

Rob is the science-fiction editor for Canadian publisher Fitzhenry & Whiteside (with his own eponymous imprint, Robert J. Sawyer Books). Quill & Quire, the Canadian publishing trade journal, recently named him one of "the 30 most influential, innovative, and just plain powerful people in Canadian publishing."

Rob has been called "the dean of Canadian science fiction" (by The Ottawa Citizen) and "just about the best science fiction writer out there" (by the Denver Rocky Mountain News). SF Site says he has "undoubtedly cemented his reputation as one of the foremost science fiction writers of our generation," and The New York Review of Science Fiction calls him "a gentle giant of a writer."

He was the first science fiction author to have a website (at sfwriter.com), was a pioneer of giving away fiction online (doing so since 1995), had a blog even before the word “blog” existed, tweets as RobertJSawyer, and is active on Facebook. But he’s even more fun in the flesh, so come up and say hello.