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Selected Works:

Golden Fleece - 1990

The Quintaglio Ascension trilogy:

Far-Seer - 1992
Fossil Hunter - 1993
Foreigner - 1994

End of an Era - 1994
The Terminal Experiment - Serialized as Hobson's Choice in Analog - HarperPrism, 1995
Starplex - Serialized in Analog - 1996
Frameshift - 1997
Illegal Alien - 1997
Factoring Humanity - 1998
Flashforward - 1999
Calculating God - 2000
Iterations - Short stories - 2002

The Neanderthal Parallax trilogy:

Hominids - Serialized in Analog - 2003
Humans - 2003
Hybrids - 2003
Relativity - 2004
Mindscan - 2005
Rollback - Serialized in Analog - 2007
Identity Theft and Other Stories - 2008

The WWW trilogy:

Wake - Serialized in Analog, 2008-9; Ace USA and Viking Canada, 2009
Watch - novel - April 6, 2010
Wonder - novel - Ace USA, Penguin Canada and Simon/Spanton UK                          

Selected Works:

1991 Aurora Award for Best Long Work in English, for Golden Fleece
1992 Homer Award for Best Novel, for Far-Seer
1993 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story, for "Just Like Old Times"
1993 Homer Award for Best Novel, for Fossil Hunter
1995 Le Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Short Story, "You See But You Do Not Observe"
1995 Nebula Award for Best Novel, for The Terminal Experiment[37]
1995 Aurora Award for Best Long Work in English, for The Terminal Experiment
1996 Seiun Award for Best Foreign Novel, for End of an Era
1996 Aurora Award for Best Long Work in English, for Starplex
1997 Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award for Best Short Story, for "The Hand You're Dealt"
1999 Aurora Award for Best Long Work in English, for Flashforward
2000 Seiun Award for Best Foreign Novel, for Frameshift
2002 Seiun Award for Best Foreign Novel, for Illegal Alien
2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel, for Hominids[38]
2005 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award for Best Short Story, for "Shed Skin"
2005 Aurora Award for Best Work in English (Other) for Relativity
2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, for Mindscan[39]
2007 Toronto Public Library Celebrates Reading Award
2007 Galaxy Award (China) for "Most Popular Foreign Author"
2007 Aurora Award for Best Short Work in English, for "Biding Time"
2010 Aurora Award for Best Long Form in English, for Wake
2010 Hugo Award nominee in the Best Novel category for Wake[40]                          

Robert Sawyer is a frequent keynote speaker about technology topics and has served as a consultant to Canada's Federal Department of Justice on the shape of future genetics laws.