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Robert J. Sawyer
Robert J. Sawyer is the author of Hugo Award-winner Hominids, Nebula Award-winner The Terminal Experiment, and John W. Campbell Memorial Award-winner Mindscan, plus Starplex, Frameshift, Factoring Humanity, Calculating God, Humans, Rollback, and WWW:Wake, all of which were Hugo finalists. The ABC TV series FlashForward was based on his novel of the same name.
Rob's other awards include China's Galaxy Award for "Most Popular Foreign SF Writer;" three Japanese Seiun Awards for Best Foreign Novel (for End of an Era, Frameshift, and Illegal Alien); eleven Canadian Aurora Awards; plus Analog's Analytical Laboratory Award, Science Fiction Chronicle's Readers Award, and the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award, all for best short-story of the year.
His 20th novel, WWW:Wonder, the concluding volume of his acclaimed WWW trilogy, will be published in April 2011. He lives just outside Toronto.
Programming for Robert J. Sawyer
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| Thu | 11:00 | (C01) | 1 hr |
The Ethics of AI
What rights and responsibilities should/would artificially developed sentient beings (of whatever sort) have? |
| Thu | 14:00 | (A10) | 1 hr |
Designing Believable Paleontology
If you were building a world with a different early history than Earth's, what would the early life forms have been like? Would its creatures have "skipped over" the megafauna stage? |
| Thu | 16:00 | (A05) | 1 hr |
Writing Non-Human Characters
In writing a fantasy or SF story, how do you create non-human characters that are more than just humans with funny ears attached? |
| Thu | 17:00 | (A11) | 1 hr |
Ace/Roc
Information on what's coming up over the next few months from Ace/Roc |
| Fri | 11:00 | (A11) | 1 hr |
Homesteading Cyberspace
If YOU were sentient software (like "Webmind," "Tron," "Valentina," or "Harlie"), where would you want to live? What issues would you face? What rights would you have? |
| Fri | 14:00 | (E01) | 1 hr |
Golden Duck Awards
The Golden Duck Awards are given out for the best in kids literature. |
| Fri | 15:00 | (Hall 2 Autographs) | 1 hr |
Autographing: Fri 15:00
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| Fri | 17:00 | (Hall 2 Bar) | 1 hr |
Literary Beer: Fri 17:00
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| Sat | 13:00 | (D05) | 1 hr |
Reading: Robert J. Sawyer
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