Robert Runté is an editor and critic specializing in speculative fiction. He contributed the essay on “Science Fiction and Fantasy? to The Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada, and has served as editor, for many years, for New Canadian Fandom, the first Canadian national SF newsletter. He won Aurora Awards in 1989 and 1990 for his contributions to Canadian SF and was Fan Guest of Honour at ConAdian, the 52nd World Science Fiction Convention.