Distant Early Warnings

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

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.

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.