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ROBERT J. SAWYER
Hugo and Nebula Winner

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Winner, Nebula Award for Best Novel of 1995: The Terminal Experiment

Photo: Nebula Award trophy

Finalist, Nebula Award for Best Novella of 2005: "Identity Theft"

Finalist, Nebula Award for Best Novel of 1996: Starplex

Winner, Hugo Award for Best Novel of 2002: Hominids

Finalist, Hugo Award for Best Novel of 2009: Wake

Finalist, Hugo Award for Best Novella of 2006: "Identity Theft"

Finalist, Hugo Award for Best Short Story of 2005: "Shed Skin"

Finalist, Hugo Award for Best Novel of 2003: Humans

Finalist, Hugo Award for Best Novel of 2000: Calculating God

Finalist, Hugo Award for Best Novel of 1998: Factoring Humanity

Finalist, Hugo Award for Best Novel of 1997: Frameshift

Finalist, Hugo Award for Best Short Story of 1997: "The Hand You're Dealt"

Finalist, Hugo Award for Best Novel of 1996: Starplex

Finalist, Hugo Award for Best Novel of 1995: The Terminal Experiment

Winner, John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel of 2006: Mindscan

Finalist John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel of 2009: Wake

Finalist John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel of 2003: Hominids

Finalist, John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel of 2001: Calculating God

Six-time winner of the Homer Award for Best Novel of the Year, voted on by the 39,000 members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Forum on CompuServe:

• Best Novel of 1992: Far-Seer
• Best Novel of 1993: Fossil Hunter
• Best Novel of 1994: End of an Era
• Best Novel of 1995: The Terminal Experiment
• Best Novel of 1996: Starplex
• Best Novel of 2000: Calculating God

Two-time winner of the Homer Award for Best Short Story of the Year:

• Best Short Story of 1995: "You See But You Do Not Observe"
• Best Short Story of 1996: "Above It All"

Winner of France's Le Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Short Story of the Year: "You See But You Do Not Observe"

Winner of Science Fiction Chronicle's 17th Annual Reader Award for Best Short Story of the Year: "The Hand You're Dealt"

Winner of the Galaxy Award — China's top SF award — for Most Popular Foreign Author of 2007

Three-time winner of the Seiun Award ("the Japanese Hugo") for Best Foreign Novel of the Year:

• Best Novel of 2002: Illegal Alien
• Best Novel of 2000: Frameshift
• Best Novel of 1996: End of an Era

Three-time winner of the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya's Science Fiction Award for Best Novella of the Year:

• Best Novella of 1997: a short version of Factoring Humanity
• Best Novella of 1998: a short version of FlashForward
• Best Novella of 2005: "Identity Theft"

Eleven-time winner of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award ("the Aurora"):

• Best Novel of 1990/91: Golden Fleece
• Best Novel of 1994/95: The Terminal Experiment
• Best Novel of 1995/96: Starplex
• Best Novel of 1998/99: FlashForward
• Best Novel of 2009: Wake
• Best Short Story of 1993: "Just Like Old Times"
• Best Short Story of 1996: "Peking Man"
• Best Short Story of 1999: "Stream of Consciousness"
• Best Other Work of 2006: "Biding Time"
• Best Short Story of 2002: "Ineluctable"
• Best Other Work of 2004: Relativity: Stories and Essays

Photos of Robert J. Sawyer accepting Aurora Awards

Winner, the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story of 1993: "Just Like Old Times"

Photos: Arthur Ellis trophy

Winner, 16th Annual Collectors Award for Most Collectable Author of the Year, presented by Barry R. Levin Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, the world's leading rare science-fiction book dealer (2003)

Finalists, Seiun Award:

• Golden Fleece (1992)
• Far-Seer (1994)
• The Terminal Experiment (1997)
• "Just Like Old Times" (1997)
• Starplex (1999)
• The Neanderthal Parallax Trilogy (2006)

Honorable Mentions, Hugo Award: Far-Seer and End of an Era

Best Science Fiction Novel of 1990, as chosen by critic Orson Scott Card in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Golden Fleece

"Starred review" in Publishers Weekly:

• FlashForward
• Rollback
• Wake

"Starred review" in Library Journal:

• Rollback

"Starred reviews" denoting books of exceptional merit in Quill & Quire, Canada's publishing trade journal:

• Far-Seer
• Fossil Hunter
• End of an Era

Starred reviews in Kliatt:

• Far-Seer
• Fossil Hunter

The New York Public Library included Far-Seer on the 1993 revision of its "Best Books for the Teen Age" list, a prestigious reference guide to Young-Adult fiction first published in 1929.

Sawyer's "The Blue Planet" appeared in David G. Hartwell's Year's Best SF 5.

Sawyer has had numerous short-story honorable mentions in Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction, including for the original novelette version of "Golden Fleece" (Amazing Stories, September 1988); for "Just Like Old Times" (On Spec, Summer 1993 — the first story from that magazine ever to make the Dozois list); for "You See But You Do Not Observe" from Sherlock Holmes in Orbit; and for "Identity Theft" from Down These Dark Spaceways.

In addition, he has had four honorable mention in Datlow and Windling's Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (for "Just Like Old Times," "Above It All," "Gator" and "Last but not Least").

More Good Reading

Backgrounder brochure on science-fiction awards
Robert J. Sawyer's essay on winning the Nebula Award
Review Excerpts

Short Fiction Bibliography
A list of Rob's books currently in print

My Very Occasional Newsletter