Not the TV series (although it undoubtedly is), but the book. Back in December 1999, Barnes and Noble released a list of its picks for the best science fiction and fantasy novels of that year: Robert J. Sawyer‘s FlashForward was listed third, with the following review: Robert J. Sawyer consistently makes intelligent, mind-blowing science fiction […]
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
Today’s Winnipeg Free Press — the major daily newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba — has a great article about the upcoming Thin Air: Winnipeg International Writers Festival, which begins next week. The article, by Books section editor Morley Walker, observes, “The star attraction this year is arguably science-fiction novelist Robert J. Sawyer.” That’s why I love […]
YouTube has video of the panel on this topic from the 2009 World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal. Panelists (left to right): Hayden Trenholm, John Park, Robert J. Sawyer. Direct YouTube link (bigger picture, HQ available) Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
Thanks to my friend Virginia O’Dine for this very funny link. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
… including the list of books David S. Goyer has the staff writers read (beside my novel FlashForward, of course!). See the article here. I visited the writers’ room for FlashForward earlier this month, but didn’t feel comfortable blogging about it — but you can read what David Goyer has to say about the room […]
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
Received today, via FedEx, the actual production manuscript for my novel Wake, returned from Ace Science Fiction, my New York publisher. This manuscript is the one that was marked up (in various colors of pen and pencil) by the copyeditor and the book designer and me (and Carolyn, too). I now have 18 such master […]
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 […]
Henry Gibson died this week as well; people today probably knew him best for his recurring role as a virginal judge on Boston Legal, but to people my age or older, he was best known for his poetry on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, which I watched often with my parents in the 1960s. Anyway, it […]
I reveal all in a short video interview with the CBC Book Club, which is doing my FlashForward this month. The interview is here. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
FlashForward, the TV series based on my novel of the same name, premieres one week from today in North America (at 8:00 p.m. / 7:00 p.m. Central). In the United States, it’s on ABC. In Canada, it’s on CTV’s /A\ series of channels. The pilot is fabulous. Pictured: actor Joseph Fiennes and author Robert J. […]
Karl Schroeder, one of my SF writing colleagues here in Toronto, had first-hand experience with Canadian health care recently, and is blogging about it here. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
Lots of info about Thin Air: Winnipeg International Writers Festival, featuring Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Charles Wilson, and Nick DiChario, in today’s Winnipeg Sun newspaper. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
After some supply-chain problems, I’m delighted to announced that my Hugo Award-nominated novel Humans, second in the Neanderthal Parallax trilogy (and my own personal favourite of the three books) is now back in print in mass-market paperback from Tor. This is the book’s fifth mass-market printing. Not only does Humans contain the hottest sex scene […]
This is fascinating: imagine seeing colours you have never seen before. “Gene Cure” for Colour Blindness (As some will recall, colour blindness figures in the plot of my novel Mindscan, and the plasticity of the brain is key to my novel Wake.) Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
One of the things I inherited from my parents is a love of folk music. I am a huge Pete Seeger fan, and also greatly admired Peter, Paul and Mary. (In fact, this no doubt had an influence on the kind of writer I turned out to be. One school of writing says, if you […]
In Canada, both Amazon.ca and Futureshop.com have the 40th anniversary Planet of the Apes Blu-ray box set on sale for the terrific price of Cdn$59.99. Just ordered me a set. (Now have to buy a Blu-ray player so I can watch it!) Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
Spent part of the afternoon going through the page proofs for Penguin Canada’s new editions of The Terminal Experiment and Illegal Alien. Illegal Alien is a courtroom drama with an extraterrestrial defendant. While looking at the proofs, I was pleasantly reminded of a bit of business from the book (first published in 1997) that I’d […]
Hi-res versions of the dramatic shot of the U.S.S. Enterprise rising up from Saturn’s moon Titan from the 2009 Star Trek movie are here (thanks to TrekMovie.com for the link!). Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
Yes — and in the best possible way! The debut episode of FlashForward — the ABC TV series based on my novel of the same name — airs Thursday, September 24, at 8:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. Central) on ABC. And the very next night — Friday, September 25, also at 8:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. Central), […]
… and President Barack Obama was perfectly within his rights to call him that (when asked about West’s conduct). If Obama had called West an “asshole,” maybe that would be marginally newsworthy, but none of the dictionaries I’ve checked flag “jackass” as objectionable, of questionable taste, or obscene. “Jackass” refers to a donkey, not an […]
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 […]
An email I received today about Final Draft, a popular scriptwriting program. The version I use, 6, is about to have tech support discontinued, which I don’t mind. But I do mind this: Because authorizing version 6 is very much a technical matter, this service will also be discontinued on December 23rd. You will still […]
My wonderful agent Ralph Vicinanza just sold Portuguese rights to FlashForward, bringing to 18 the number of languages my work has or will be appearing in: Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, English, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, and Spanish. w00t! (And le w00t! and el w00té! and …) Visit The Robert […]
Those darned timezones! Thin Air: Winnipeg International Writers Festival, in conjunction with CTV, is hosting a public viewing of the pilot episode of FlashForward, the TV series based on my novel, as it airs on Thursday, September 24, 2009. The event will be held at McNally Robinson Polo Park in Winnipeg, with me doing commentary […]
At Astronomy Picture of the Day, over here. Cool! Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
Great review of Distant Early Warnings: Canada’s Best Science Fiction, edited by Robert J. Sawyer, is here at The Crotchety Old Fan. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
… and, really, that means that each year there are two Hugos given for books, one for fiction and one for nonfiction (for instance, the year my novel Hominids won the Hugo, Better to Have Loved, the wonderful biography of Judith Merril, by Judy and her daughter Emily Pohl-Weary, also won a Hugo in the […]
A response to the person who decided to nitpick about one sentence in a 12-minute radio interview I did a week ago: An interview is a pop quiz — you have to answer live on air immediately, often about things you haven’t thought about for years. We who are brave enough to go on the […]
