Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best Science Fiction
Language: English
Published by Robert J. Sawyer Books, Canada, 2009
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- Title
- Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best Science Fiction
- Author
- Sawyer, Robert J. (editor)
- Publisher
- Robert J. Sawyer Books, Canada
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0889954380
- ISBN 13
- 9780889954380
- Seller catalogs
- Science Fiction
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.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of 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.
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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