Science Fiction Writer
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Hugo and Nebula Winner

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Canadian Science Fiction is a wide and varied field, with many authors of international stature working within it: on a per capita basis, Canada has more world-class science-fiction writers than any country on Earth. Below are essays, links, and resources about science fiction by Canadians.

Overview:

• An Introduction to Canadian Science Fiction

• Award-Winning Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy: a comprehensive list

• A survery of the state of Canadian SF&F from 1985

Essays:

• Introduction to Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best Science Fiction
• Domestic Canadian SF? You Bet!
• A Tale of Two Stories: an essay about Canadian vs. American SF
• Introduction to Frederick Philip Grove's Consider Her Ways
• Toronto: A Writer's Tour
• Science Fiction: Taken For Granted (on the Canada Council for the Arts)

Newsnotes and Lists:

• Northern Lights: ten years of news notes about Canadian SF authors

• List of Toronto-area SF&F authors
• Ten recommended Canadian SF novels

• Table of contents from Distant Early Warnings
• Table of contents from Tesseracts 6
• Table of contents from Ark of Ice
• Table of contents from North of Infinity
• Table of contents from Northern Stars
• Table of contents from Crossing the Line

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• The Robert J. Sawyer Newsletter

Fiction:

• Three short-short Canadian SF Stories by Terence M. Green, Robert J. Sawyer, and Andrew Weiner, introduced by John Robert Colombo

Encyclopedia Galactica entries on:

• Canadian Science Fiction
• John Robert Colombo
• Terence M. Green
• Donald Kingsbury
• Robert J. Sawyer
• Andrew Weiner

Interviews with or profiles of Canadian SF authors:

• Carolyn Clink
• John Robert Colombo: 2009 / 2006
• Terence M. Green: 1992 / 1988
• Donald Kingsbury
• Judith Merril
• Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens
• Robert J. Sawyer: 2007 / 1998
• Edo van Belkom: 2000 / 1997
• A. E. van Vogt
• Robert Charles Wilson: Introduction to "Julian: A Christmas Story"

Science Fiction: The Interdisciplinary Genre:

(The biggest and best academic conference ever held about Canadian science fiction, McMaster University, September 2013)

• Website
• Program, including abstracts and presenter biographies
• Conference summary

Reviews of Canadian Science Fiction Books:

• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (from The Ottawa Citizen)
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (from Maclean's)
• The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling (from The Globe and Mail)
• Starcrosser by John Ibbitson (from The Canadian Book Review Annual)
• Nighteyes by Garfield Reeves-Stevens (from The Canadian Book Review Annual)
• Novels by Robert J. Sawyer
• Distant Signals by Andrew Weiner (from The Canadian Book Review Annual)

Robert J. Sawyer Books

• The science-fiction imprint of Red Deer Press, a Fitzhenry & Whiteside company, edited by Robert J. Sawyer and publishing Canadian authors including Terence M. Green, Matthew Hughes, Danita Maslan, Karl Schroeder, and Andrew Weiner, plus the anthology Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best Science Fiction.

Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best Science Fiction:

• Introduction (providing a summary of the state of Canadian SF as of 2009)
• Table of Contents
• Blog entries

Tesseracts 6:

• Introduction (providing a summary of the state of Canadian SF as of 1997)
• Table of Contents
• Afterword by Carolyn Clink
• Notes About the Contributors — mini-biographies of 21 Canadian SF writers
• Some Insights from the Editors

Crossing the Line:

• Introduction
• Table of Contents
• Notes About the Contributors — mini-biographies of 11 Canadian SF writers

Aurora Awards:

• Fiction winners to date
• 1998 Auroras a "battle of the titans"
• 1998 nominees press release
• 1997 winners press release
• 1997 winners press release
• 1996 winners press release
• Photos from ceremonies
• Trophy designs
• Plans for the 1997 trophy
• What's wrong with the Auroras?
• Why there's no Aurora Award for ...

Other:

• Is Robert J. Sawyer part of Canadian Literature?
• Arthur Ellis Awards
• Prisoners of Gravity, a 139-episode series about science fiction
• The founding of the Canadian Region of SFWA
• Ontario Hydra, Canada's oldest association of SF professionals
• Bakka SF Bookstore moves
• 2006 special report on Canadian SF
• On Canadian film-option contracts

Alouette: The Newsletter of the Canadian Region of SFWA

Between 1992 and 1997, Robert J. Sawyer edited and published at his own expense eleven issues of Alouette: The Newsletter of the Canadian Region of SFWA (the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America).

Named for Canada's first satellite, Alouette was nominated for the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association's Aurora Award for Best Fanzine of 1993.

Alouette contained interviews with and articles by many Canadian SF&F writers, short stories by some of Canada's best writers, publishing newsnotes, career tips, and more, providing a valuable historical snapshot of the most significant decade in the rise of Canadian science fiction and fantasy.

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