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Robert J. Sawyer has written for ABC, the CBC, CTV, Copperheart, Harmony Gold, Nelvana, Shaftesbury, and gaming giant Ubisoft, among others. He is a member of both the WGA and the WGC, and is past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The ABC TV series FlashForward was based on his novel of the same name, and he was one of the scriptwriters for that series.
His writing credits include produced prime-time US network TV drama, two commissioned feature-film screenplays, commissioned series pilots and series bibles, and he wrote the series-finale episode for the popular Star Trek Continues online film series.
Rob has worked creatively with major industry figures including Ron Bass, Brannon Braga, Fred Fuchs, Vince Gerardis, Scott M. Gimple, David S. Goyer, Michael Hirsh, Vincenzo Natali, Karl Schaefer, William Shatner, and Robert Halmi, Sr.
Nineteen of Rob's bestselling novels have been optioned for film or television production. He has won all three of the world's top awards for best science-fiction novel of the year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
Rob has a Bachelor of Applied Arts degree from Canada's top television school, the School of Radio and Television Arts (now known as the RTA School of Med
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| Robert J. Sawyer. Photo by Adrià Guxens |
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You only need to cross a couple of words with Robert J. Sawyer to realize he&#;s a very wise man. You also soon realize he&#;s a university professor because when he talks about a deep matter, he doesn&#;t give up until you have understood what he wanted to say. But since he is wearing a strange Asian T-shirt with a golden dragon, you would never say he&#;s one of the very few writers who have won the three most important science fiction awards out there &#;the Nebula, the Hugo and the John W. Campbell. Instead, you may thing he is another fan who has come to the Celsius Festival of Avilés to get to know his idols. But what&#;s most important for Robert is not the shape, but the content; the metaphors that are hidden in a book. Thus, he argues science fiction (sci-fi) should be named philosophical fiction (phi-fi) because the goal of this type of literature is to throw questions.
Adria&#;s News talks with this Canadian author who is very proud to be the first science fiction writer to own a webpage. &#;That&#;s the reason I have the coolest domain&#;, says, referring to his site, In this interview Robert is the last one to ask a question: