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Robert J. Sawyer

Canadian Writer

Born: Apr 29, 1960

About Fiction People Science World You

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When I started publishing - my first novel came out in 1990 - there were no options for publishing science fiction in Canada. There were no small presses, and the large presses simply would not touch it at all. Robert J. Sawyer

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My mother is an American. Robert J. Sawyer

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Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics, and, some might argue, biology, my father was and still is a social scientist at the University of Toronto. Robert J. Sawyer

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Whether it's created in a lab, written by a programmer, or lands on the White House lawn as a visitor from the stars, if it acts like a human being, it is a human being. Robert J. Sawyer

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I am very pro-science. Robert J. Sawyer

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I'm a rationalist. And I can see no evidence for a benevolent and interventionist creator. Robert J. Sawyer

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I've had many of my books optioned. Robert J. Sawyer

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A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when there was a real interest to get people into technical careers. Robert J. Sawyer

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Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion - it was a critique of British colonialism, and... 'The Time Machine' is really an indictment of the British class system. Robert J. Sawyer

I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do that well is by really understanding the lives of real people. Robert J. Sawyer

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One gets a bit picky after having the success of something like 'FlashForward!' Robert J. Sawyer

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I've long said that if Canada has a role on the world stage, it's principally as a role model, a demonstration that people of all types can get together and live in peace and harmony, which is something we really do most of the time here. Robert J. Sawyer

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There's always been a quality to being a science-fiction reader. Usually, you're the only one in your class, or there are only one or two in your whole town. You're always the guy who reads that strange stuff. Robert J. Sawyer

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You have to have confidence in where you're going. Don't live and die by the fans' tweets. Robert J. Sawyer

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What Bradbury had that most other science-fiction writers didn't have at that time was a love for beautiful language, evocative description, and haunting phrases that would stick with the reader. Robert J. Sawyer

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There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four, the first three were all published principally in science-fiction magazines. They were preaching to the converted. Robert J. Sawyer

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Bradbury was the one guy who was published in places like the 'Saturday Evening Post.' He was the guy who brought science fiction to the masses. If he hadn't existed, science fiction would have been a well-kept secret in literature instead of a widely consumed phenomenon. Robert J. Sawyer

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Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination as saying, 'Here's what you get if you wait to that year.' Well, we all waited till that year, and we didn't get anything at all like that. Robert J. Sawyer

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I would love to write more about my hardboiled gumshoe on Mars, Alex Lomax. Robert J. Sawyer

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It's possible that there is a guiding intelligence in our universe. I don't see a lot of personal evidence for an interventionist-on-an-individual-basis-deity. I have friends who very much do believe in that. But I don't. Robert J. Sawyer

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