I took a little time for sight-seeing in San Francisco, accompanied by my dear friend Kaye Mason, Ph.D., who works at EA. We had private behind-the-scenes tours at the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Museum of Vision, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and the Googleplex — I love my job! I’ve now arrived in Las Vegas […]
My event at Borderlands Books went fabulously: big crowd, lots of books sold, and lots of fun. A special treat was that my cousin Eric Peterson came to the event. Before my reading, I met a fellow named Sean, who seemed intrigued by my books. He bought a mass-market paperback of Calculating God — used! […]
Print interviews with Rob about Wake: SF Signal Tor.com John Scaliz’s Whatever (a “Big Ideas” essay by Rob) The Page 69 Test The Mississauga News Audio interviews with Rob about Wake: Peter Anthony Holder of Montreal Talk Radio CJAD (30 minutes) The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Peter Anthony Holder hosts Holder Tonight on Montreal radio station CJAD-AM and Toronto radio station CFRB-AM. He had Robert J. Sawyer on this past Thursday, April 9, 2009, to talk about his new novel Wake. You can hear the whole half-hour interview right here (click to play; right click to download the MP3 file). The […]
Robert J. Sawyer will be reading and signing Wake at Borderlands Books in San Francisco this Monday, April 13, 2009, at 7:00 p.m.: Borderlands Books866 Valencia StreetSan Francisco, CaliforniaMonday, April 13, 2009, 7:00 p.m. Other Wake book-tour events The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Yesterday, Wake started showing up in Canadian bookstores (and I myself saw the nice display of copies at the Indigo on Yonge Street just north of the 407 in Greater Toronto). And I got to do something that’s very special: I got to autograph the first copy of the finished book. I always annotate that […]
To my astonishment and delight, my Wake is the #1 “Technothriller” bestseller on Amazon.com: (Posted at 12:05 a.m. on Friday 10 April 2009) 1. Wake by Robert J. Sawyer2. State of the Union by Brad Thor3. Daemon by Daniel Suarez4. Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry5. Digital Fortress by Dan Brown6. Vixen 03 by Clive Cussler7. […]
First reported Canadian bookstore sighting of my new novel Wake was today, appropriately enough at Bakka-Phoenix, Toronto’s SF specialty store. I used to work there in 1982, and the store is hosting the Toronto launch party for Wake on April 30 at the Dominion on Queen pub at 500 Queen Street East, at 7:00 p.m. […]
Check out John’s podcast “Serving Worlds” here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Marshal Zeringue’s fascinating blog “The Page 69 Test” features Wake today. The idea is you flip to page 69 of a book, and discuss whether it’s typical or not, and so on. Lots of fun. Marshal also talks about Wake here and here. (I also did “The Page 69 Test” for Rollback back in 2007.) […]
Proving that there a great bunch of people, my previous publisher Tor.com has a wonderful, lengthy interview with me today about Wake, my new novel for Ace. The interview was conducted by the terrific John Klima, who is a Hugo finalist this year for his fanzine Electric Velocipede. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
On March 20, 2009, I had an op-ed piece in The Ottawa Citizen about the use of computers by children. Nina Munteanu — always a fascinating blogger, as well as a very fine SF writer — responds with some very interesting ruminations here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Today started at midnight, of course — and at 12:30 a.m., I was on the air, doing a live half-hour radio interview with Peter Anthony Holder, simultaneously on CJAD-AM in Montreal and CFRB-AM in Toronto. Just eight hours later, I was back on the air again, this time for a full-hour on The Mike Shinabery […]
A good, meaty interview, on the occasion of the publication of Wake, is now up over at SF Signal. John DeNardo conducted the interview. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Go on over to John Scalzi’s “Whatever” blog and find out: I’ve got a 1,000-word “Big Ideas” essay over there today. Check it out! The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
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W00t! The American Library Association’s Booklist has weighed in on Wake: Sawyer’s take on theories about the origin of consciousness, generated within the framework of an engaging story, is fascinating, and his approach to machine consciousness and the Internet is surprisingly fresh. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
The April 8, 2009, edition of The Maine Edge — the weekly arts and culture newspaper in Bangor, Maine — has a glowing review of Wake on page 7, and an interview with me on page 8. You can read them both in the PDF version of the newspaper here. Or read the interview online […]
From The Authors Guild, of which I am a member: Today, the National Federation of the Blind led a protest in front of the Guild’s offices in Manhattan. This protest stems from Amazon’s announcement in February that it would allow publishers to disable the voice-output feature of its Kindle 2 after we had objected that […]
“I’m arguing for justice, sir … I’m arguing for people — for a wholehearted, indivisible commitment to humanity.” —James T. Hart As I said back in December 2008, Shout! Factory is issuing the first season of The Paper Chase on DVD — and the three-disk set arrived today, via Amazon.ca! All 22 first-season episodes. W00t! […]
Audible.com has the exclusive audio book of Wake, released today to coincide with the release of the American hardcover edition. It’s a terrific multi-voice unabridged reading, narrated by Jessica Almasy, Jennifer Van Dyck, A.C. Fellner, Marc Vietor, and yours truly, Robert J. Sawyer, and featuring an exclusive audio introduction by me. You can get it, […]
If you wrote to me, and haven’t heard back — I apologize! My Yahoo! Mail account has been eating some of my email; I don’t know why. (It hasn’t just been misfiling it as spam; it’s actually just not showing up in the account at all.) All email to my sfwriter.com domain gets mirrored to […]
Marie Bilodeau of Canadian publisher EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy interviewed me at the World Fantasy Convention in Calgary on Sunday, November 2, 2008 — and the interview has just gone live. It lasts 14 minutes and talks about my experiences co-editing the anthology Tesseracts 6, my advice for writers marketing manuscripts, what I think […]
Today is the official U.S. publication date for my 18th novel, WWW: Wake. It is now available in bookstores in the U.S., through online booksellers, for Amazon’s Kindle, the Sony Reader, and in eReader, Mobipocket, and Microsoft Reader formats from Fictionwise.com. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Leading up to my appearance later this month at The Frye Festival in Moncton, New Brunswick, The Moncton Times & Transcript interviews me today. The article is online here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
As if this wasn’t crazy enough, it’s just been confirmed that Toronto will have two of its SF cons on the same weekend next year! Both Ad Astra, the general con, and FilKONtario, the filking con, are April 9 through 11, 2010. Unbelievable! For the record, it’s Ad Astra that changed its date, resulting in […]
I’m always delighted when one of my writing students has success, and I’m thrilled to announce that the wonderful Karleen Bradford has a new book! Karleen was my student for a week at the Banff Centre in September 2005. Dragonmaster is the third book in her celebrated “Taun Series” from HarperCollins’s young-adult HarperTrophy imprint. Way […]
At least I think they’re snappy. I was asked by a magazine doing a piece about Wake for a one-liner they could use as a teaser. I gave them five, and told them to take their pick: Ray Kurzweil says the singularity is near. Actually, it’s all around us. The World Wide Web will soon […]
Check it out. (Many thanks to J.F. Lewis, who runs the SFWA Pressbook — see his own news here.) The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
So, we have six major general-interest regional science-fiction conventions left in Canada: VCON in Vancouver, Con-Version in Calgary, Pure Speculation in Edmonton, KeyCon in Winnipeg, Ad Astra in Toronto, and Con*Cept in Montreal. And, incredibly, three of them are on the same weekend in 2009! VCON, Pure Speculation, and Con*Cept are all the first weekend […]
