An optimist, eh? Robert J. Sawyer talks about 'the Canadian example' and the problem with Star Wars

Does the future belong to Canada?
It does the way Robert J. Sawyer writes it.
The Ottawa native has been called the godfather of science fiction in this country. There’s a reason: His books bleed Canadian red and white.
A recent novel was set in Winnipeg and Saskatoon, drawing on everything from a Jets playoff game to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights to the imagined election of Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi as Canada’s next prime minister.
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