Over on my Yahoo! Groups News Group, Steven H. Silver — a fine choice for the fan-writer Hugo, by the way — pimped this 8-minute Doctor Who special short, in which David Tennant’s Doctor meets Peter Davison’s one. It’s absolutely charming, if you’re a Doctor Who fan … The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
So, I saw out of the corner of my eye a promo for the new CBC TV series jPod today, based on the Douglas Coupland book, and I said to myself, “That can’t be Alan Thicke, can it?” So I googled, and end up at Thicke’s official website, and, indeed, it is Thicke, whom I’ve […]
This year’s finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award — honoring SF books first published in the previous year as paperback originals in the US — include my friend and fellow Canadian Minister Faust for The Notebooks of Dr. Brain. The full list: Grey, Jon Armstrong (Night Shade) Undertow, Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra) From the […]
My friend Mark Leslie Lefebvre sent me an interesting question today: I also had a question about remainders (since I know that some of your older titles or books that have gone into paperback have gone into remainder status — after an incredibly great run as a traditional trade book, of course). Remainders/Bargain Books are […]
I’m going to be one of the participating authors at the Toronto Public Library’s third annual Book Lover’s Ball, coming on Thursday, January 31, 2008. It’s a swanky, black-tie, $500-a-plate fund-raising dinner for North America’s largest public-library system. It’s also the event at which I will pass the torch of the Toronto Public Library Celebrates […]
My Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint is published by Red Deer Press, which, in turn, is owned by Fitzhenry and Whiteside, a long-established, mid-sized Canadian publisher, run by Sharon Fitzhenry, daughter of co-founder Robert I. Fitzhenry. Sharon’s dad just passed away. There would be no Robert J. Sawyer Books — and a lot less Canadian publishing in […]
Speaking of Hugo and Aurora Awards, might I gently remind the world that my novel Rollback is currently eligible for nomination for both? Rollback was published in hardcover by Tor in April 2007 (and was a Main Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club); the paperback comes out February 5, 2008. Rollback is currently on […]
Nominating is now open for the Aurora Awards. For the first time ever, you can nominate online. All Canadians are eligible to do so, and there’s no cost to nominate. And although the Canadian SF Works Database that Marcel Gagné and I founded provides a wiki list of professional works that are eligible for the […]
This year, 2008, is the 30th anniversary of Stanley Schmidt becoming editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Despite Analog being consistently the English-speaking world’s #1 best-selling SF magazine for that entire period, Stan has never won a Hugo Award for Best Editor. It’s high time he did win. To nominate and vote, you have […]
… they pull a boneheaded stunt. Okay, we all know that traditional encyclopedia publishers have been taking a beating as people turn to the free Wikipedia for content. Still, every couple of years I update my Encyclopaedia Britannica CD-ROM. This year, I opted for the 2008 Ultimate DVD edition because, as it says on the […]
I’m pleased as punch to announced that my 17th novel Rollback was the #1 bestselling hardcover for the entire year of 2007 at Toronto’s Bakka-Phoenix, the world’s oldest surviving science-fiction specialty bookstore, beating out J.K. Rowling for the top spot. And Phyllis Gotlieb’s Birthstones, published under Red Deer Press’s Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint, was […]
Penguin Canada is my new Canadian publisher; I’m about to turn in Wake, the first volume of my upcoming WWW trilogy, to them. Good to know that they’re doing fine, as you can see in this Publishers Weekly article. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
One of the coolest things about Amazon’s new Kindle eBook reader is the ability to download content directly to the reader, without having to use a separate computer. (Although, as I mentioned before, it was really the old Rocket eBook devices that pioneered this notion, delivering eBooks just by plugging your reader into a phone […]
Happy New Year, Everyone! This past year was spectacular for me, I must say. In approximately chronological order: I won the $2,500 Toronto Public Library Celebrates Reading Award presented at the Book Lovers’ Ball (pictured above) My 17th novel Rollback was published by Tor to rave reviews I had a fabulous 22-city book tour for […]
