Robert J. Sawyer wins his 12th Aurora Award
Robert J. Sawyer's Watch has won'the Best English-language Novel Award at the 2011 Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association Canvention, which was held this past weekend in Toronto.
Watch is the sequel to last year's winning Wake and the second book in Sawyer's WWW triology about Caitlin Decter who was born blind, but after a surgery to restore her sight, is able to see paths in the World Wide Web instead of reality.
Since 1980, the Prix Aurora Awards have been awarded annually on behalf of Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy fans. With this year's win, Robert J. Sawyer has now won 12 Aurora Awards in total.
The other 2011 winners are:
Best Short Fiction: "The Burden of Fire" by Hayden Trenholm, Neo-Opsis Magazine #19
Best Poem/Song: "The ABCs of the End of the World" by Carolyn Clink, A Verdant Green, The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
Best Graphic Novel: Goblins, Tarol Hunt
Best Related Work: The Dragon and the Stars, edited by Derwin Mak and Eric Choi, DAW
Best Artist: Erik Mohr
Best Fan Filk: Dave Clement and Tom Jeffers for Face on Mars, CD
– Filk is fan music based on science fiction or fantasy
Best Fan Organizational: Helen Marshall and Sandra Kasturi for Toronto SpecFic Colloquium
Best Fan Other: John Mansfield and Linda Ross-Mansfield for the conception of Aurora Nominee pins
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Congratulations again Robert J. Sawyer, and thank you TPL for making his books and audio books available!
Here are links to interviews with Sawyer on the WWW trilogy:
http://aescifi.ca/index.php/non-fiction/34-interviews/332-robert-j-sawyer-a-sunnier-tomorrow
http://aescifi.ca/index.php/non-fiction/52-reviews/507-here-comes-my-big-brother-robert-j-sawyers-wonder
Evan Andrew Mackay http://goodevaning.wordpress.com/