Science Fiction Writer
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Hugo and Nebula Winner

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• Audie Award winner!
• Hugo Award finalist!
• John W. Campbell Memorial Award finalist!
• Aurora Award finalist!

• First on Borders.com's Best SF of the Year List
• First on The Rocky Mountain News's Best SF of the Year List
• On Science Fiction Chronicle's Best SF of the Year List
• On BN.com's Best SF of the Year List

• Number One on the Locus Bestsellers List
• An Amazon.com Bestseller
• A Globe and Mail Bestseller
• A Maclean's Bestseller

• The only book published as science fiction on the Chapters/Indigo/Coles 2006 list of the best 100 books of all time by Canadian authors (coming in at number 79)

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• Seneca College lecture by Ksenia Jourova on Calculating God

• Ad from The Prehistoric Times (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 392K)
• Flight path of the Starship Merelcas

• First rebuttal to The Skeptical Inquirer
• Second rebuttal to The Skeptical Inquirer
• A Bright Idea for Atheists

• Attention students: Looking for critical discussions of Calculating God? See the review by Janice M. Bogstad in SFRA Review, a publication of the Science Fiction Research Association, issue #253 (July/August 2001); the full text is available as a PDF document (see page 34).

  Also see the essay "The Science and Religion Dialogue in the Science Fiction of Robert J. Sawyer" by Valerie Broege in The Everyday Fantastic: Essays on Science Fiction and Human Being, Michael Berman, editor (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), and the book The Gospel According to Science Fiction by Gabriel McKee (Westminster John Knox Press, 2007).

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