Robert J. Sawyer

Robert J. Sawyer is a Canadian science fiction writer born in Ottawa in 1960 and based in Mississauga, Ontario. His novels include Far-Seer, The Terminal Experiment, Calculating God, the Neanderthal Parallax trilogy beginning with Hominids, Mindscan, the WWW trilogy, Flashforward and Quantum Night.

He is one of a small group of writers to win the Nebula (for The Terminal Experiment, 1995), the Hugo (for Hominids, 2003) and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for Mindscan, 2006) for best novel, and he has won more Aurora Awards than any other writer.

Flashforward was adapted as an ABC television series, for which he was a consultant. He is a Member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario.