Science Fiction Writer
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Hugo and Nebula Winner

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• Illegal Alien paperback published by Ace.
• Illegal Alien hits #9 on the paperback bestsellers list published by Locus: The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field.

• Rob is guest speaker at a meeting of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society.

• Rob contracts with The Discovery Channel Canada to co-host the two-hour documentary Inventing the Future: 2000 Years of Discovery, to air January 2, 2000.
• Factoring Humanity hits #1 on the hardcover bestsellers list (combined fiction and nonfiction) published in the March 7 Palm Beach Daily News, as provided by Florida's Classic Bookshop.

• Publishers Weekly gives FlashForward a "starred review," denoting a book of exceptional merit.
• Factoring Humanity nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel of the Year.

• Factoring Humanity paperback published by Tor.
• Rob appears on Open Mike with Mike Bullard, Canada's most popular talk show.

• FlashForward hardcover published by Tor.
• FlashForward spend two weeks on the hardcover fiction bestsellers list at Toronto's World's Biggest Bookstore: for June 18-24, it's #8; for June 25-July 1, it's #10.
• On June 19, FlashForward is ranked #93 in sales — cracking the famed Hot 100 list — out of all the titles available on Amazon.com.
• Maclean's: Canada's Weekly Newsmagazine devotes almost two full pages to a profile of Rob in its June 21 issue, saying, "By any reckoning Sawyer is among the most successful Canadian authors ever."

• Rob teaches science-fiction writing for four days at the University of Toronto's Taddle Creek Writers Workshop.

• Rob finishes his twelfth novel, Calculating God.

• Rob attends World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne, Australia.

• Rob is Guest of Honor at science-fiction convention Context XII in Columbus, Ohio, October 8-10.
• Rob is Master of Ceremonies at the Canadian National Science Fiction Convention in Fredericton, New Brunswick, October 15-17.
• Rob is Guest of Honor at science-fiction convention Concinnity in Ottawa, Ontario, October 29-31.

• Tor contracts with Rob for three new novels, plus a reprint of End of an Era.
• Tor reissues Rob's first novel, Golden Fleece, in a revised trade-paperback edition.
• Rob gives a talk, "The Future Is Already Here: Is There a Place for Science Fiction in the 21st Century?," at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., on November 10.
• Rob reads at the National Library of Canada in Ottawa, on November 15.
• Year 2000 edition of Canadian Global Almanac published by McClelland & Stewart: Rob is included in the "Hall of Fame," spotlighting prominent Canadians.
• Rob contracts with Nelvana, the third-largest animation studio in the world, to write the series bible for a computer-animated science-fiction series.
• The Ottawa Citizen newspaper dubs Rob "the dean of Canadian science fiction."

• Rob gives the keynote address at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya's Premio UPC de Ciencia Ficción award ceremony in Barcelona, Spain.
• Rob's short-story "Mars Reacts!," explaining what really happened to the Mars Polar Lander, appears in The Globe and Mail: Canada's National Newspaper, on December 11.
• BN.com, the web site of Barnes and Noble, announces its 1999 "Year's Best" list for science fiction and fantasy. FlashForward is listed third.

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Rob's 2014 Year in Review
Rob's 2013 Year in Review
Rob's 2007 Year in Review
Rob's 2001 Year in Review
Rob's 2000 Year in Review
Rob's 1999 Year in Review
Rob's 1998 Year in Review
Rob's 1997 Year in Review
Rob's 1996 Year in Review
Rob's 1995 Year in Review

Decade in Review: January 1999 to December 2008

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