Karl Schroeder () (born September 4, 1962) is a Canadian science fiction author and futurist. His novels present far-future speculations on topics such as nanotechnology, terraforming, augmented reality, and interstellar travel, and are deeply philosophical. More recently he also focuses on near-future topics. After publishing a dozen short stories, Schroeder published his first novel, Ventus, in 2000. A prequel to Ventus, Lady of Mazes, was published in 2005. He has published seven more novels and is co-author (with Cory Doctorow) of the self-help book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction. Schroeder currently writes, consults in the area of futures studies.

In October 2011, Karl Schroeder was awarded a Master of Design degree in Strategic Foresight and Innovation from OCAD University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 2007 Aurora finalist,

  • 2012. Audie Award for best Original Work for METAtropolis: Cascadia, a shared-world audiobook anthology in which Schroeder's contribution was the short story Deodand.
  • Lockstep was the 2015 winner of the Aurora Award for Best Young Adult Novel.

Selected bibliography

Stand-alone

  • The Claus Effect (with David Nickle). (Tesseract Books, 1997)
  • Permanence (Tor Books, 2002.)
  • Crisis in Zefra (Directorate of Land Strategic Concepts, National Defence Canada; 2005.)
  • Lockstep (Tor Books, 2014.)
  • Jubilee , 2014
  • The Million , 2018
  • Stealing Worlds , 2019

Ventus

  • Ventus (Tor Books, 2000)
  • Lady of Mazes (prequel to Ventus) (Tor Books, 2005)

Virga

  • Sun of Suns (Tor Books, 2006.)
  • Queen of Candesce (Tor Books, 2007.)
  • Pirate Sun (Tor Books, 2008.)
  • The Sunless Countries (Tor Books, 2009.)
  • Ashes of Candesce (Tor Books, 2012.)

References

  • Official site - including Creative Commons-licensed text of some of his works
  • Permanence - An Adaptationist Solution to Fermi's Paradox? by Milan M. Cirkovic
  • Adaptationism Fails to Resolve Fermi’s Paradox, Serbian Astronomical Journal, Vol. 170, pp. 89-100 (2005), by Milan Cirkovic with Ivana Dragicevic and Tanja Beric-Bjedov.
  • Interview with Karl Schroeder - small WORLD Podcast 2006
  • Video of Karl Schroeder on The Agenda with Steve Paikin, "Are We Bound for Space?" panel discussion with Chris Hadfield, Donna Shirley, Lawrence Krauss and Robert D. Richards
  • Audio of Karl Schroeder, "The Rewilding: A Metaphor" presentation at the O'Reilly Media Open Source Conference.