![]() ![]() Rob’s books are published all over the world in twenty-two languages, and I get to tag along with him on trips to such places as Chengdu (where he was given the top Chinese science-fiction award as “the most popular foreign author”), the Canary Islands (where we met Stephen Hawking and went beachcombing with Neil deGrasse Tyson!), and Cambridge University (where he gave a talk in honour of Charles Darwin attended by Darwin’s grandson). The difference between him being a scrawny student with a scraggly beard in the 1970s and being - if a wife may brag a bit! - the bestselling Hugo and Nebula Award-winning member of both the Order of Ontario and the Order of Canada that he is today? He has better toys now! In our living room, you’ll find a gorgeous 33-inch model of the original starship Enterprise, $150 Japanese action figures from Planet of the Apes, and a talking HAL 9000 replica mounted on the wall. ![]() And his favourite place is still the same: back in high school, he had his eye set on working at the Royal Ontario Museum (he wanted to be a dinosaur hunter!) and we still visit it often. He still loves the same things he did then: Star Trek, pizza, and chocolate milk. ![]() Sawyer is like living with a teenager - and I should know: we met 45 years ago in the science-fiction club (which he founded) at Northview Heights Secondary School at Finch and Bathurst. ![]()
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