Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best Science Fiction (Robert Sawyer) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889954380 ISBN 13: 9780889954380

Publisher: Robert J Sawyer Books, 2009

Synopsis

2010 Aurora Award nominee

The 21st Century Belongs to Canada.

On a per capita basis, Canada has more world-class science-fiction writers than any country on Earth. Collected here are the best recent works by Hugo Award winners Spider Robinson, Robert J. Sawyer, and Robert Charles Wilson, Hugo nominees Paddy Forde, James Alan Gardner, Nalo Hopkinson, and Peter Watts, and Aurora Award winners Julie E. Czerneda and Karl Schroeder - 14 advance reports of wonders and dangers yet to come.

"Robert J. Sawyer is the public face of Canadian science fiction."
- Quill & Quire

The following is the list of contributing authors with links to a brief bio on the author:

Julie E. Czerneda,
Paddy Forde,
James Alan Gardner,
Nalo Hopkinson,
Spider Robinson,
Robert J. Sawyer,
Karl Schroeder,
Peter Watts, and
Robert Charles Wilson,
plus the poetry of Carolyn Clink.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert J. Sawyer - called "the Dean of Canadian Science Fiction" by the Ottawa Citizen and "Canada's answer to Michael Crichton" by the Montreal Gazette - has published 18 novels, including the Hugo Award-winning Hominids, the Nebula Award-winning The Terminal Experiment, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award-winning Mindscan.

From Publishers Weekly:

Inspired by John Robert Colombo's Other Canadas, Award-winning Canadian author Sawyer attempts to convey his heritage through the medium of science fiction, compiling a collection of stories by the genre's best Canadian writers. The authors featured are all contemporary Canadian authors, and strictly science fiction (no fantasy), though their stories are not geographically limited. The first and longest story, "In Spirit" by Paddy Forde, is a sometimes tedious and maudlin tale about the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York City, while Spider Robinson's "You Don't Know My Heart" is set in Key West. Many of the other stories, including James Alan Gardner's "The Ray Gun," Peter Watts's "Eye of God," and Sawyer's own "Shed Skin," explore the theme of unequal power relationships, perhaps exploring the distinctly Canadian preoccupation with the neighboring U.S. Like the Great White North itself, this collection is earnest and worth consideration.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Robert J Sawyer Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0889954380
• ISBN 13: 9780889954380
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308
• Editor: Sawyer Robert J.