Yesterday’s National Post — a major Canadian daily newspaper available coast-to-coast — ran a great interview with Robert J. Sawyer about FlashForward (accompanied by a great photo!) You can read the article online here; the author is Mark Medley and the photographer is Peter J. Thompson. Below is how the article appeared in the printed […]
Cool call-out above the fold on page 1 of the Ottawa Citizen, the largest-circulation newspaper in Canada’s capital city: Even nicer article inside by Tom Spears, the Citizen‘s science reporter inside. The article begins: “That there’s fiction in science fiction is pretty obvious. But Canadian author Rob Sawyer also wants you to remember the science […]
Today’s National Post — a major Canadian daily newspaper, available coast to coast — interviews me about tonight’s debut of the TV series FlashForward, based on my novel of the same name. The terrific photo above, taken by Post photographer Peter J. Thompson, accompanies the article, which was written by Mark Medley. FlashForward premieres tonight […]
Click this text for full-size video at TIME.comIt doesn’t get much better than this! TIME.COM — the website of Time magazine — has just posted a 6-minute video profile of me and the science behind my novel FlashForward. (Indeed, right now, it’s promoted on top of the the main page of TIME.com, which is as […]
The Dragon Page interviews me about the differences between writing for print and writing for television and film. It’s a good, meaty interview, and you can listen right here. We talk about the current adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife, about Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, about House, about The Simpsons, about the […]
Symmetry Breaking: Extra Dimensions of Particle Physics — a joint publication of Fermilab and SLAC — interviews Robert J. Sawyer about his novel FlashForward, and the novel’s setting at CERN. You can read the article right here. The interview is by Fermilab’s Katie Yurkewicz. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
The podcast Slice of SciFi interviews Robert J. Sawyer this week; you can listen here. I come in at 31 minutes 0 seconds, and go to 46 minutes 30 seconds. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Paul Levinson — himself a very fine SF writer, and the author of The Plot to Save Socrates — interviews me for 36 minutes on his podcast Light On Light Through about FlashForward. You can listen here. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
CTV is the Canadian broadcaster for the FlashForward TV series, and they’ve booked me on their flagship morning show Canada A.M. for this Tuesday, September 22, 2009 (because that’s the last day I’m in Toronto before the series premiere, two days later). I’m scheduled to go on at 8:40 a.m. Eastern time. Not that anyone’s […]
The long-running New York science-fiction radio program Hour of the Wolf recorded an interview with Robert J. Sawyer at Readercon in July 2009, and it aired on Saturday, September 12. You can listen to an MP3 of the broadcast right here. I come on at 27 minutes and 20 seconds mark and run all the […]
The Mississauga News has a nice profile of writing couple Robert J. Sawyer and Carolyn Clink in the current edition; the online version is here. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
Very nice, thoughtful profile of me on page 1 of the Entertainment section of today’s (20 August 2009) Calgary Herald, the largest-circulation newspaper in the Canadian province of Alberta. The online version is here; the print version includes the above photo and the cover of Wake. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
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Phil Marchand — long-time books columnist for The Toronto Star now writes for Canada’s National Post, and has a very thoughtful article on “How Fantasy Overtook Science Fiction” in today’s edition. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
… conducted by current Aurora Award nominee Edward Willett just went online here. It’s a good, meaty interview about my residency at the Canadian Light Source and my new novel Wake. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
A nice three-minute video interview with Robert J. Sawyer conducted by Leila Lemghalef is online right here. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
The fine folks at Jawbone.tv phoned me a while ago, and we did a long, discursive telephone interview — and they’ve very kindly transcribed it and put it online. You can read the whole thing here. The interviewer was Todd Denis. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
Book Banter, a podcast produced by Alex C. Telander of Sacramento, interviews Robert J. Sawyer, talking about his novel Wake. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
Freedom Scientific makes JAWS, the screen-reading software that Caitlin Decter uses in my novel Wake. JAWS is the world’s most popular screen-reading program for the blind. A quite lengthy and detailed interview between Robert J. Sawyer and Jonathan Mosen, Freedom Scientific’s Vice-President of Blindness Hardware Product Management, begins a couple of minutes into the podcast […]
Photo of Robert J. Sawyerby Troy Fleece, Regina Leader Post. Click photo for larger version.Today’s (Saturday, June 27, 2009) Regina Leader-Post — the major daily newspaper in the capital city of the province of Saskatchewan — has a wonderful profile of me by Samantha Maciag. The article covers my writer-in-residence position at the Canadian Light […]
Geek Monthly, that is. And the June 2009 edition of this glossy American newsstand magazine features a wonderful two-page spread on Robert J. Sawyer and his new novel Wake. The text isn’t available online (hence the greeked Geek you’re seeing here), so get thee to a newsstandary! But it sure is a cool-looking layout: The […]
John Gormley Live is Saskatchewan’s most-popular radio morning show, and I was guest for almost half an hour this morning. Missed it? No problem! You can hear the whole interview right here (I start at the 16 minute 9 second mark, and, in this version, with the commercials trimmed out, it lasts about 18 minutes). […]
Although the broadcast debut isn’t until Sunday, June 14, 2009, the special science-fiction episode of the Canadian religious TV show Listen Up is already online on YouTube. The feature interviews are with Robert J. Sawyer, Gabriel McKee, John C. Wright, and Peter Kazmaier, and there are clips from Hugo Award-winner Robert Charles Wilson, and Space: […]
I was a guest in studio on CBC Radio One’s Fresh Air, heard Ontario-wide, on Sunday morning, May 24, 2009. The topic, of course, was my new novel Wake, and the interview is now online here (9 minutes — Windows Media Player is required, I think). CBC’s website described the interview thus: Fresh off our […]
In advance of my reading at McNally Robinson Saskatoon on Thursday, June 4, 2009, at 7:30 p.m., the bookstore chain has put this interview with me online. The interview was conducted by Nicole Berard. In the interview, I discuss my residence at the Canadian Light Source, the Flash Forward TV series, and, of course, my […]
Robert J. Sawyer appeared on the Dr. Howard Gluss Radio Show on May 12, 2009, talking about consciousness, computers, his new novel Wake, and his older novel Flash Forward. The interview is now available online as a two-part podcast: Part 1 (11 minutes 30 seconds) (when the break begins at the 11:30 mark, the rest […]
Jessica Strider, a bookseller at the World’s Biggest Bookstore in Toronto, recently interviewed Robert J. Sawyer for her blog Sci-Fi Fan Letter. You can read the whole interview right here. Among the questions and answers: What was the hardest scene for you to write? I’ve written lots of gut-wrenching scenes over the years, and some […]
John Joseph Adams recently interviewed me about my story “The Shoulders of Giants,” which appears in his just-released anthology Federations. Among the things I say: Those who’ve read my recent novels have seen that I don’t have much interest in antagonists; I think the idea that all fiction is fundamentally about conflict, and you need […]
The problem with reading newspaper articles online is that you miss seeing the layout of the article in the actual printed paper. To my astonishment and delight, it turns out that the article about me and my novel Wake in today’s Waterloo Region Record, a major Canadian daily newspaper, is on THE FRONT PAGE! The […]
That’s the headline for the article about me, my novel Wake, and why it’s set in Waterloo, Ontario, that appears in today’s edition of The Waterloo Region Record, the major daily newspaper serviing the twin cities of Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario. And, indeed, it really was a no-brainer: people would accuse me of making up […]
