CBC Radio loves the Robman
On Saturday, September 26, 2009, I was interviewed on CBC Radio One's pop-culture program Definitely Not the Opera, hosted by Sook-Yin Lee (above in 2007, with Robert J. Sawyer), in an interview recorded at Thin Air: Winnipeg International Writers' Festival.
On Monday, September 28, 2009, I was interviewed on CBC Radio One's Q, hosted by Jian Ghomeshi (below, photographed today with Rob).
And earlier this month, on Saturday, September 5, 2009, I was interviewed on CBC Radio One's The Next Chapter, hosted by Shelagh Rogers.
All three interviews were about my novel FlashForward, and the hit ABC TV series based on it -- and all three interviews are now online as MP3 files:
- CBC Radio's DNTO interviews Rob (6 minutes)
- CBC Radio's Q interviews Rob (14 minutes)
- CBC Radio's The Next Chapter interviews Rob (12 minutes)
Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
and WakeWatchWonder.com
Labels: Flash Forward, Flashforward, Interviews, Podcasts
Posted by Rob on Monday, September 28, 2009
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Rob I just listened to your Q interview. Near the end, you say that you believe that the future is fixed.
I just went back and listened to the end of your Penn Neuroscience talk from the spring. Near the end of that, you seem to refute a questioner's assertion that the future is fixed, citing quantum indeterminacy.
I thought I detected a somewhat playful tone in the Q interview during this exchange. Perhaps you were arguing for determinism in order to not give anything away about the TV series as it develops.
But am I missing something here?
All you're missing is that I'm not an ideologue. Who the hell knows if the future is fixed? No one. I can argue it either way, depending on my mood -- I think there are good arguments for both positions. (And, remember, at Penn I had oodles of time to delve into the question; on Q, I had 15 seconds to answer it.)
Or, as Walt Whitman said, "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes."
Ah! This is kind of what I thought.
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