“I started wondering why it is that people line up behind charismatic leaders. It's easy to understand the emergence of a figure who's narcissistic and compelling. But why people follow this person mindlessly - that was the hard question to me.”

Canadian and American science fiction writer

Robert James Sawyer is a Canadian and American science fiction writer. He is known for a career that spans novels, short fiction, and award-winning work across the genre. He has published 25 novels, and his shorter fiction has appeared in magazines and journals including Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories, On Spec, and Nature, as well as in several anthologies. His honors include the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1995, the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2003, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2006, the Robert A. Heinlein Award in 2017, and multiple Aurora Awards.