For only $10 you get to nominate, vote and have access to the voter’s package. The online system allows you to either pay through a Paypal account or a credit card.

Still unsure of what to nominate? Go to Michael Matheson’s Canadian Spec Fic list: http://canspecfic.com/2012-can-sf-2/ .

Sign-in at: http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/Membership/ Please use your membership account attached to this email. If you don’t remember your pin number there is a link on the membership page to have it automatically emailed to you.

There are just a few days left. Don’t miss out. Feel free to forward this onward to anyone you think might be interested.

Today, Monday, April 8, 2013 @ 7:30 PM

Clocktower Brew Pub, 418 Richmond Rd, Ottawa, ON

Robert J Sawyer, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Aurora awards as a science fiction writer (and the Arthur Ellis Award as a mystery writer) will launch his 22nd book RED PLANET BLUES at the Westboro Clocktower Pub, 418 Richmond Rd, in conjunction with Perfect Books. Reading is scheduled for 7:30 pm Monday April 8, 2013.
There is no admission charge, but you may enjoy sampling their selection of small batch cask conditioned brews.

For more info on Rob’s Cross-Canada book tour and to read the opening chapters check out: http://www.sfwriter.com/

• the World Science Fiction Society’s Hugo Award, which he won in 2003 for his novel Hominids;
• the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s Nebula Award, which he won in 1996 for his novel The Terminal Experiment;
• and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, which he won in 2006 for his novel Mindscan.

Rob is also the only writer in history to win the top SF awards in the United States, China, Japan, France, and Spain. In addition, he’s won an Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada as well as eleven Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards (“Auroras”). The ABC TV series FlashForward is based on his novel of the same name.

Maclean’s: Canada’s Weekly Newsmagazine says, “By any reckoning, Sawyer is among the most successful Canadian authors ever,” and Barnes and Noble calls him “the leader of SF’s next-generation pack.”

Rob’s novels are top-ten national mainstream bestsellers in Canada, appearing on the Globe and Mail and Maclean’s bestsellers’ lists, and they’ve hit #1 on the bestsellers’ list published by Locus, the U.S. trade journal of the SF field. His twenty novels include Frameshift, Factoring Humanity, Calculating God, Wake , and the popular “Neanderthal Parallax” trilogy consisting of Hominids, Humans, Hybrids.

He’s often seen on TV, including such program as Rivera Live with Geraldo Rivera, Canada A.M., and Saturday Night at the Movies, and he’s a frequent science commentator forDiscovery Channel Canada, CBC Newsworld, and CBC Radio.

Rob — who holds an honorary doctorate from Laurentian University — has taught writing at the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, Humber College, the National University of Ireland, and the Banff Centre. He has been Writer-in-Residence at the Richmond Hill (Ontario) Public Library, the Kitchener (Ontario) Public Library, the Toronto Public Library’s Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy, the Canadian Light Source synchrotron, and at the Odyssey Workshop. And he edits Robert J. Sawyer Books, the science-fiction imprint of Red Deer Press.

Rob has given talks at hundreds of venues including the Library of Congress and the National Library of Canada, and been keynote speaker at dozens of events in places as diverse as Los Angeles, Boston, Tokyo, and Barcelona. He was born in Ottawa in 1960, and now lives just west of Toronto with his wife, poet Carolyn Clink.

For much more about Rob, see his 10,000-word autobiography.

Hayden Trenholm is a produced playwright, published author, and editor for Bundoran Press. His plays have been produced Alberta and Saskatchewan and on CBC radio. In 1993, his play, Man of No Name, was a finalist in the Theatre BC play competition and, in 1994, he won the 28th Alberta Playwriting Competion with “The Book of Rose”. In addition to six stage plays, he wrote and acted in over forty five interactive murder mysteries for Pegasus Performances, appearing across western Canada and, even, in Las Vegas.

Hayden recently edited a short fiction anthology, Blood and Water, for Bundoran Press. It was published in 2012.

We’ve made several improvements this year:

• better site design
• easier and more efficient registration
• and site responsiveness (this means the site will re-size itself depending on the device being used to look at it)

We’ll be posting updates here regularly as well as keeping our Twitter and Facebook pages active. So stay tuned!

A more complete biography is forthcoming.

Jeff Manthorpe was born in Belleville, Ontario in 1976. In September of 1994 he started a B.Sc. in Bio-Medical Science at the University of Guelph but transferred to the Chemistry program in his second year. After carrying out undergraduate research with Professor Gordon Lange, he graduated on the Dean’s List in the spring of 1998.

Upon completion of his B.Sc., Professor Manthorpe moved to McGill University in Montréal, Québec to carry out post-graduate studies with Professor James Gleason. His research involved the development of a powerful new general method for the stereocontrolled formation of α,α-disubstituted enolates. Subsequent asymmetric alkylation of these enolates led to the formation of quaternary carbons with high levels of stereopurity. An extremely efficient second-generation system followed and is now commercially available from Aldrich. Other students in the Gleason group continue to investigate this chemistry.

After completing his doctoral studies, he moved to the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) where he was an FQRNT postdoctoral fellow with Professor Erick M. Carreira. Whilst at the ETH he worked on the asymmetric synthesis of an analogue of the clinical antifungal agent amphotericin B and developed a powerful new directing group for the synthesis of β-glycosides.

In the summer of 2006 he took up an academic position at Carleton University, where his research focuses on the development of new asymmetric methodology and applications to biologically relevant molecules, both natural and unnatural.

When not in the lab he enjoys spending time with his Newfoundland dogs, cycling, rock climbing, playing hockey and listening to music.