Year in Review: 2007
by Rob - January 1st, 2008.Filed under: Uncategorized.
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 Rollback, including speaking for the second time at the Library of Congress
- Rollback was a main selection of the Science Fiction Book Club
- My Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint published wonderful novels by Phyllis Gotlieb and Matthew Hughes
- I was the cover boy on Quill & Quire, the Canadian publishing trade journal
- I received an Honorary Doctorate from Laurentian University (pictured below)
- I participated in the conference The Future of Intelligent Life in the Cosmos sponsored by the NASA Ames Research Center and the SETI Institute
- Carolyn and I spent three amazing months at the Berton House Writing Retreat
- Carolyn and I had a fabulous trip to China
- I won China’s Galaxy Award — that country’s top science-fiction honour — for Most Popular Foreign Author
- My “Biding Time” won the Aurora Award for Best English Language Short Story (my tenth Aurora to date!)
- I wrote an editorial for Science, the world’s leading scientific journal
- Carolyn and I had a wonderful trip to Los Angeles
- My “Emails from the Future” piece appeared in Report on Business Magazine
- I gave 17 keynote addresses, including talks for the Canadian Public Relations Society, Sanofi Pasteur, Alberta Health and Wellness, and the prestigious Mary Donaldson Memorial Lecture
Now, onward to 2008!
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