Robert J. Sawyer
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April 29, 1960 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Canadian American |
| Alma mater | Ryerson University |
| Genre | Science fiction, Mystery |
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Robert James Sawyer CM (born April 29, 1960) is a Canadian science fiction writer. He has had 23 novels published, and his short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories, On Spec, Nature, and many anthologies. Sawyer has won the Nebula Award (1995), the Hugo Award (2003), and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2006).
Sawyer was born in Ottawa and is now a resident of Mississauga, Ontario.
Many themes have been identified in Sawyer's work including the exploration of science and religion, hacking the human consciousness, SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), and mortality. He often sets his works in Canada.
Sawyer's work frequently explores the intersection between science and religion, with rationalism frequently winning out over mysticism (see especially Far-Seer, The Terminal Experiment, Calculating God, and the three volumes of the Neanderthal Parallax [Hominids, Humans, and Hybrids], plus the short story "The Abdication of Pope Mary III," originally published in Nature, July 6, 2000).
Sawyer often explores the notion of copied or uploaded human consciousness, mind uploading, most fully in his novel Mindscan, but also in Flashforward, Golden Fleece, The Terminal Experiment, "Identity Theft", "Biding Time", and "Shed Skin".
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