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LAWRENCE, Kan., Jul 9, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Canadian author Robert Sawyer has won the world's top honor for a science-fiction writer, it was reported Sunday.
Sawyer's novel, "Mindscan," received the 2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award at the annual Campbell Conference of science fiction writers at the the University of Kansas in Lawrence Saturday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
Sawyer had been nominated two other times for the award, created in 1973 in honor of the late editor of Astounding Science Fiction magazine. The winner is selected by a panel of eight editors and authors from Britain and the United States.
Sawyer now belongs to an elite group of science fiction writers who have won all three of the genre's top prizes, the CBC said.
He won the reader's choice Hugo Award in 2003 and the Nebula Award, which is decided by fellow writers, in 1996.
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