Speaker Night – Robert Sawyer
January 23 @ 20:00 - 22:00
Talk Synopsis
New Life and New Civilizations: A Science Fiction Perspective on Exobiology
Bio: Robert J. Sawyer—dubbed “the dean of Canadian science fiction” by the Ottawa Citizen and the CBC—has won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel of the Year; a record-setting 17 Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards (“Auroras”); the top science-fiction awards in China, Japan, France, and Spain; an Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada; and over 50 other national and international writing awards. He is a member of both the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario.
Quill & Quire calls Rob one of “the most influential, innovative, and just plain powerful people in Canadian publishing,” and Maclean’s says, “By any reckoning, Sawyer is among the most successful Canadian authors ever.”
Rob is a past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and he’s taught creative writing at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the University of Toronto, the Humber School for Writers, and Toronto Metropolitan University.
A multiple TEDx speaker with more than 850 radio and TV interviews under his belt, Rob has given over 100 keynote addresses worldwide. His 25 bestselling novels include Quantum Night (longlisted for Canada Reads) and FlashForward (the basis for the ABC TV series of the same name). Rob’s million-plus-word website—which The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature calls “the most elaborate and interesting of any created by a Canadian writer”—is at sfwriter.com.
Banner Credit: Background – Francisco Ungaro; Portrait By: Warren Shepherd
Venue
- DV2072 William Davis Building UTM
Getting There:
Paid parking in lot 8 is adjacent to the Recreation Athletics and Wellness Centre.
Use the entrance facing Outer Circle road. Walk up the stairs up to the second floor. Continue past Tim Hortons on the second floor and turn right. Follow the hallway to the room 2072 -- look for the RASC banner.
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To use the elevators, continue straight on after you enter the building. Take the elevator to the second floor. Turn left out of the elevators and continue down the long hallway to room DW2072 -- look for the RASC banner. If you go by Tim Hortons to the stairs going down, you've gone the wrong way.
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