Miscellaneous

Awards

• My novel Lockstep won the 2014 Aurora Award for Best Long Work, English (novel).
  
• The novella "To Hie from Far Cilenia" was nominated as part of Metatropolis for the 2009 Hugo Award under the category Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form.
• Permanence won the 2003 Aurora Award for Best Long Work, English (novel). The Aurora Award is Canada's top award for SF and Fantasy; it is voted for by the general public.
• Two of my novels, Ventus and Permanence have been short-listed for the Sunburst Award. Sun of Suns was short-listed for both the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice award for 2007.  Both Permanence and Sun of Suns narrowly missed appearing on the Hugo Awards ballot (dang!).  Sun of Suns needed only six more nominations to be on the ballot.
  
• "The Cold Convergence" (then titled "Live Wire") won the Context '89 Short Story contest. Jurors included Charles de Lint.
• "The Toy Mill" won the 1993 Aurora award for best short work in English, at the 1993 Aurora awards ceremony, Wolfville Nova Scotia, Sunday March 14, 1993. The story "Hopscotch" was also nominated in this category.

Broadcasting

• Since 1998, numerous appearances on the Canadian Space Channel's Shelf Space, a regular spot that appears between regularly scheduled programs.
• The Space channel did a special on the making of the televised version of Frank Herbert's Dune. In my part of the special I talk about how Herbert's novel was one of the first in SF to use the ideas of the then-new science of ecology.
• CBC National Magazine Interview: I was interviewed by Hannah Gartner for the national news program Magazine on Christmas Eve, 1996. The subject of the interview was futurism and prediction. The other interviewee was consultant and futurist Frank Ogden. The interview was eight minutes long, and served to end a half-hour special program on Canada in 30 years.
• I was interviewed by Magic 100, an Ottawa radio station on July 8, 1997 regarding the Mars Pathfinder mission.
• Grand Illusions: The Story of Magic: Magic In Literature, Discovery Channel series, 1998 (Wilson Coneybear, producer). I was extensively interviewed for this episode of the popular series; its most recent airing on Canadian TV was August 5, 2002.

  Other known Canadian air dates: June 9, 1999; June 12, 1999; June 13, 1999.

Editorial Work

• Co-editor of Communique, the official publication of SF Canada, 1991.
• Guest editor for the Hard SF issue of On Spec, spring 1994.

Teaching

• George Brown College Writing SF & Fantasy, ELS 9390 (continuing education), Spring, 1992-Fall 1994.
• World Science Fiction Convention Annual Writer's Workshop, San Jose, August 30-Sept. 2 2002.

Service to the Writing Community

• Founding member, SF Canada. Vice-president 1994-95; President, 1996-97.
• Since 1988, I have hosted dozens of writing retreats and workshops for new and established writers in SF, fantasy and horror. The main venue for the retreats has been Hart House Farm, a 200 acre estate in the beautiful rolling countryside of the Caledon Hills in Ontario.
• Pioneered use of the Internet to bring SF writers together in a growing on-line community. In 1992 I created the SF Canada listserver, which unites members of this organization worldwide.
• Created listservers for alumni of Clarion (the US national SF writer's workshop) and the francophone SF community.
• In spring 1995 I created the SF Canada web site as a central clearing house for information on Canadian SF, and as a home for members' web pages, maintained for them as an SF Canada service free of cost.

Professional Affiliations

• Elected president of SF Canada on July 21, 1996 at the organization's annual general meeting, held at ConVersion XIII in Calgary. I had previously been elected vice president at the Ad Astra 12 Science Fiction convention in April, 1993.
• Founding Member, SF Canada