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Author. Nationality. Canadian. Genre. Science fiction. Spider Robinson (born November 24, 1948) is an American-born Canadian science fiction author. He has won a number of awards for his hard science fiction and humorous stories, including the Hugo Award 1977 and 1983, and another Hugo with his co-author and wife Jeanne Robinson in 1978. [ 1 ][ 2 ]
Peter Watts (born January 25, 1958 [ 1 ]) is a Canadian science fiction author. He specializes in hard science fiction. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1991 from the Department of Zoology and Resource Ecology. [ 3 ] He went on to hold several academic research and teaching positions, and worked as a marine-mammal ...
The Hugo Award for Best Novel has been awarded annually by the World Science Fiction Society since 1953, except in 1954 and 1957. In addition, beginning in 1996, Retrospective Hugo Awards or "Retro-Hugos" have been available for works published 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro-Hugos may only be awarded for years after 1939 in which no awards ...
Johnston describes her novel That Inevitable Victorian Thing as a "[n]ear-future Sci-fi Canadian Idealistic Romance". [16] It was published in 2017. She credits her discipline in academic writing for helping her time management while writing prose; and states she is a fast writer, the composition of A Thousand Nights taking "about 20 days",. [3]
The Canadian Broadcasting Company began producing science fiction as early as the 1950s. CTV produced The Starlost at the CFTO studios in Scarborough. In the early 1990s, Toronto and Vancouver became prominent centres of television and film production, with shows like Forever Knight and RoboCop, then The X-Files raised the profile of Canadian science fiction television much higher, although ...
Garfield Reeves-Stevens. Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. Jeanne Robinson. Spider Robinson. Kelly Robson. Esther Rochon. Joel Rosenberg (science fiction author) Geoff Ryman.
Shainblum was also a finalist in the 2001 international Mark Twain Writing Competition and recently published a story in Claude Lalumière's anthology Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic from Véhicule Press. In 2002–03, he served as president of SF Canada, Canada's national association of science fiction and fantasy authors. In ...