Hugo Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Author of WWW:Wake and FlashForward

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Canadian Science Fiction Home Page

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.

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

Newsnotes and Lists:

Award-Winning Canadian SF&F: a comprehensive list
Northern Lights: ten years of news notes about Canadian SF authors
Canadian SF Works Database (founded by Marcel Gagné and Robert J. Sawyer)
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
The Robert J. Sawyer Newsletter

Encyclopedia Galactica entries on:

Interviews with or profiles of Canadian SF authors:

Carolyn Clink
John Robert Colombo
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"

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:

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
On Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (from The Ottawa Citizen)
On Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (from Maclean's)
2006 Special report on Canadian SF
On Canadian film-option contracts

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