Karl Schroeder was born to a in Brandon Manitoba. His family is part of a Mennonite community that has lived in southern Manitoba for over one hundred years. Karl moved to Toronto to pursue a writing career. His novel Permanence won the 2003 Aurora Award for best Canadian SF novel. Karl is married with a daughter and he divides his time between writing fiction and consulting - chiefly in the area of Foresight Studies and technology.
"Delightful and engaging, both intellectually and viscerally: a
superb achievement."
--Kirkus on Ventus (starred review)
"With its 10 powerful short stories, The Engine of Recall serves as
an ideal introduction to the talents of Toronto science fiction
writer Karl Schroeder. While his novels have met with considerable
success (Permanence was awarded the Aurora Award and his first
novel, Ventus, was named a New York Times Notable Book), his
shorter works have not been collected prior to this volume, edited
by Robert J. Sawyer for his eponymous imprint. . . . . . The
disparate stories are united by the keen edge of Schroeder's
writing and the fundamental humanism at the stories' core.
Schroeder writes with a terse economy of language, a precision that
one expects from the genre but rarely encounters. Few words are
wasted, and the language underscores the close attention to
characterization."
-- Quill & Quire
"Delightful and engaging, both intellectually and viscerally: a
superb achievement."
--Kirkus on Ventus (starred review)
"With its 10 powerful short stories, The Engine of Recall serves as
an ideal introduction to the talents of Toronto science fiction
writer Karl Schroeder. While his novels have met with considerable
success (Permanence was awarded the Aurora Award and his first
novel, Ventus, was named a New York Times Notable Book), his
shorter works have not been collected prior to this volume, edited
by Robert J. Sawyer for his eponymous imprint. . .
. . . The disparate stories are united by the keen edge of
Schroeder's writing and the fundamental humanism at the stories'
core. Schroeder writes with a terse economy of language, a
precision that one expects from the genre but rarely encounters.
Few words are wasted, and the language underscores the close
attention to characterization."
-- Quill & Quire
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