Toronto Life profiles RJS

Toronto Life, a glossy newstand magazine devoted to the finer things in Canada's largest city, profiles Robert J. Sawyer in the March 2010 issue; as a subscriber, I received my copy in the mail today.

It's a terrific article; I'm absolutely thrilled with it. And it's accopanied by an amazing photo of me in my office. The article is by Sheena Goodyear, and the photo is by Finn O'Hara.

An excerpt:

Sawyer's fast-paced prose blends adventure and philosophical exploration, riveting readers to implausible narratives populated by talking space dinosaurs; dimension-shifting, bisexual Neanderthals; and six-legged aliens (who infiltrate the ROM). They're also meticulously researched examinations of modern culture in the face of world-altering progress. He pits spirituality against pragmatism and shows characters at their most vulnerable, usually within recognizable Canadian settings. It's like CanLit on meth, and he has made addicts out of thousands of middle-aged sci-hards.

"Like CanLit on meth." I like that.

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Student video interview

Last month, some high-school students (and the mother of one of them) dropped by my home to interview me for a class assignment (they were studying my novels FlashForward and Humans), and they've put two videos of that interview up on YouTube:

Part One (8 minutes)
Part Two (7 minutes)

(The sun is setting outside my penthouse windows as the interview goes on ... and the image gets darker and darker.)

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Toro interviews RJS

"Unlike James Cameron, Sawyer seems to believe in the positive possibility of artificial intelligence, but that was just one of the subjects we touched on in this very involved conversation."

Check out the full interview.

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Writers' Confessions

I'm in nine episodes of the new season of the TV series Writers' Confessions (including the first one), which premieres tomorrow -- Thursday, January 7, 2010 -- on Bravo! Canada, Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. EST. Proudcer and director is Michael Glassbourg.

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The Chronic Rift interviews Robert J. Sawyer

The Chronic Rift: Spotlight on Robert J. Sawyer. Check it out. (35 minutes MP3.)

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CityTV interviews RJS about Terminator Salvation

Check it out! (8-minute video).

Terminator Salvation comes out on Blu-ray and DVD tomorrow.

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On Rochester, NY, NPR station on Friday

I'll be interviewed about my novels Wake and FlashForward on 1370 Connection with Bob Smith, the noon (Eastern time) show on AM 1370, the NPR station in Rochester, New York, this Friday, November 6, 2009. You'll be able to listen live here, and I'll be on for most of the hour between noon and 1:00 p.m. (then it's off to Astronomicon, Rochester's SF convention, where I'm one of the guests).

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Front page lead story in Kingston Whig-Standard

Look who's the cover boy on today's Kingston Whig-Standard!

The Whig-Standard is the major daily newspaper in Kingston, Ontario, and the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in Canada.

Today's cover story is in honour of my appearance yesterday at Queen's University, located in Kingston, where I gave a public talk sponsored by Queen's Faculty of Applied Science and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, arranged by Dr. Michael Greenspan, the ECE Department Head.

You can read the full article from the 15 October 2009 edition of the Whig here, and see a lager, different shot of me and Deep Green, the pool-playing robot, here.

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Talking Turkey!

Monday is Canadian Thanksgiving, and CBC Radio One will be interviewing me and three other Canadian authors that afternoon, starting at 4:00 p.m. (4:30 in Newfoundland). It's a special program of the best podcast interviews from CBC's Online Book Club, hosted by Hannah Sung (pictured with me above). The interviews are:

First half-hour:
Lawrence Hill
Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki

Second half-hour:
Will Ferguson
Robert J. Sawyer

(My novel FlashForward was the CBC Book Club choice last month.)

Tune in and enjoy, or listen online as streaming audio on Monday here.

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Concordia University's The Link interview about Wake

A nice interview, by Christopher Olson, mostly about my novel Wake. You can read it online here.

And The Link has a brief review of the anthology Distant Early Warnings I edited here.

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CERN interviews RJS about FF on ABC

My novel FlashForward, the basis for the ABC TV series of the same name, is largely set at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

CERN now has a video interview with me, conducted by horror writer Stacey Cochran, and a print interview with me, conducted by CERN's Antonella Del Rosso, on the CERN website. How cool is that?

Watch and read here.

[Photo caption: CERN / In his own words: Robert J. Sawyer on FlashForward]

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CBC Radio loves the Robman

On Saturday, September 26, 2009, I was interviewed on CBC Radio One's pop-culture program Definitely Not the Opera, hosted by Sook-Yin Lee (above in 2007, with Robert J. Sawyer), in an interview recorded at Thin Air: Winnipeg International Writers' Festival.

On Monday, September 28, 2009, I was interviewed on CBC Radio One's Q, hosted by Jian Ghomeshi (below, photographed today with Rob).

And earlier this month, on Saturday, September 5, 2009, I was interviewed on CBC Radio One's The Next Chapter, hosted by Shelagh Rogers.

All three interviews were about my novel FlashForward, and the hit ABC TV series based on it -- and all three interviews are now online as MP3 files:

• CBC Radio's DNTO interviews Rob (6 minutes)
  
  
• CBC Radio's Q interviews Rob (14 minutes)
  
  
• CBC Radio's The Next Chapter interviews Rob (12 minutes)
  

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Canadian Press video interview with RJS

The Canadian Press has a video interview with Robert J. Sawyer about FlashForward, the TV sereis based on his novel of the same name, over at the website for The Globe and Mail: Canada's National Newspaper. You can watch it online here.

(Interview recorded at CTV's Queen Street facility in Toronto on August 11, 2009, and posted on the Globe's site on September 24, 2009.)

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National Post on "The Man Who Knew Too Much"

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 newspaper.

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Nice to be the first thing the Prime Minister saw over breakfast

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 half, especially with one of his 20 novels coming out as a televised series."


You can read the whole article right here.

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National Post interviews Robert J. Sawyer

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 -- Thursday, September 24, 2009 -- at 8:00 p.m. / 7:00 p.m. Central on ABC in the US and CTV's /A\ in Canada.

TIME.com profiles Robert J. Sawyer

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It 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 close as I'll ever get to being on the cover of Time!)

The interview with me was done Thursday, August 27, 2009, in Los Angeles, at a location shoot for FlashForward. It's terrific!

The interview is hosted by Brian Malow. Special thanks to Nicole Marostica of ABC Studios for facilitating the shoot.

Watch the interview right here.

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The differences between writing for print and screen

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 new Battlestar Galactica, and of course about FlashForward. And at the end, we talk about my new novel Wake.

I come in at the 16 minutes 0 seconds mark, and go to almost the end of the show, 43 minutes 8 seconds mark.

(The book I recommend during the interview is Writing the TV Drama Series: How to Succeed as a Professional Writer in TV by Pamela Douglas.)

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Symmetry Breaking interviews RJS

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.

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Slice of SciFi interviews RJS

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.

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Paul Levinson podcasts RJS

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.

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Mississauga News profiles Carolyn and Rob

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.

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Calgary Herald profile

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.

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Philip Marchand quotes me in today's National Post

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.

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Saskatchewan Writers Guild interview

... 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.

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WatchMojo.com video interview with RJS

A nice three-minute video interview with Robert J. Sawyer conducted by Leila Lemghalef is online right here.

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Jawing with Jawbone.tv

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.

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Book Banter podcasts Rob

Book Banter, a podcast produced by Alex C. Telander of Sacramento, interviews Robert J. Sawyer, talking about his novel Wake.

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Freedom Scientific podcast features RJS and Wake

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 (but the preamble is fascinating, full of interesting stuff about products for the blind).

The interview deals with how I researched blindness, my own experience with blindness, the reaction to Wake from the blind community, plus my residency at the Canadian Light Source, machine consciousness, the role of science fiction, and a bunch of other cool topics.

The MP3 of the podcast is here, and the Podcast XML link is here.

I've done a lot of audio interviews related to Wake, but this one is a particularly in-depth and interesting one, I must say. Incidentally, the interview was recorded via Skype with me in Saskatoon, and Jonathan in New Zealand.

From Jonathan's introductory comments:

Robert J. Sawyer's books are for me among a select group. When there's a new Robert J. Sawyer book available, all other leisure activities go on hold until it's read. Robert J. Sawyer writes science fiction that makes you think. His books often tackle the philosophical questions of our time, and the philosophical questions we may need to confront at a future time.

The main human character in [Wake] is Caitlin Decter. She's 15, a mathematics wizard, a frequent blogger on her LiveJournal — and a blind user of JAWS. It's rare to find novels where the main character is blind, let alone when where the research has clearly been so meticulous.

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Rob on John Gormley Live

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).

Most of the interview is about my writer-in-residence gig at the Canadian Light Source.

John Gormley Live is heard daily on News Talk 650 in Saskatoon and News Talk 980 in Regina.

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Listen Up science-fiction episode online

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: The Imagination Station's Mark Askwith.

Here's the whole show, in four parts:

Part 1: Robert J. Sawyer, the author of Wake and Calculating God, plus comments from Penguin Canada publicist Debbie Gaudet, Robert Charles Wilson, and Mark Askwith

Part 2: The Sunburst Award's Peter Halasz (the fellow who makes the opening comment); Gabriel McKee, author of the excellent nonfiction survey The Gospel According to Science Fiction

Part 3: Tor author John C. Wright discussing his conversion to Christianity; self-published author Peter Kazmaier

Part 4: The host's wrap-up.

I was asked on camera about my own beliefs -- I'm an atheist -- but that didn't make it to the final cut, it seems. :)

Here's Listen Up's own page about the episode.

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Listen online to RJS on CBC's "Fresh Air"

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 latest fear of a pandemic, sci-fi writer Robert Sawyer launches a new book that tackles that very subject...that, and the world-wide-web developing a mind of its own. The book is called Wake. It's published by Viking Canada. And Robert joins Mary to talk about it and the state of science fiction writing in general. If you want to know more about Mr. Sawyer's world, check out his website.

Oh, and here's the speech I mention in the interview: my keynote address to the Canadian Science Writers' Association.

Photo: Science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer with host Mary Ito at the swanky Book Lover's Ball in Toronto in February 2007.

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McNally Robinson interviews Robert J. Sawyer

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 new novel Wake.

(They also have a nice interview with DAW author Edward Willett here; that interview is by Chadwick Ginther.)

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RJS on the Dr. Howard Gluss Show

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 of the MP3 is ads -- time to swtich to part two at the link below)

Part 2 (5 minutes 30 seconds)

Howard Gluss, Ph.D., is a psychologist. His show originates in Los Angeles.

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World's Biggest Bookstore interviews Rob

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 of those have been very difficult to write emotionally, but the hardest scenes I've ever had to write creatively are in Wake: much of the novel is told from a first person point of view by the consciousness that is waking up in the background of the World Wide Web. Making those scenes plausible and captivating was very difficult to do. I ended up using a lot of interesting linguistic tricks to pull it off, and I was delighted when my brother-in-law, David Livingstone Clink, who is a very accomplished poet, said that they read like poetry.

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Federations interview

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 a good guy and a bad guy is simply not true; my latest novel Rollback has no antagonist, for instance, and I don’t really think there’s one in my upcoming Wake, either. Well, I wrote “The Shoulders of Giants” in 1999, when I was experimenting with making exciting fiction that only had good guys in it; that was a challenge, but I like to think I pulled it off.

You can read the whole interview right here.

Federations is available in print everywhere, and Fictionwise just released it as a multi-format ebook -- woohoo!

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Holy cow! I'm on the front page of The Record!

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 article begins on A1, and is continued on A2. You can read the full text right here, and my commentary about the article here.

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Waterloo Setting a "No-Brainer"

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 a Canadian city that was home to the world's top physics think tank (Perimeter Institute), a place that Stephen Hawking is coming to visit; that is home to the makers of the one device the President of the United States has said he can't live without (Research in Motion, who make the BlackBerry); that has one of the world's leading facilities for research into quantum computing (the Institute for Quantum Computing); that has a major Google facility, that has a world-class math department (at the University of Waterloo); that has a major public-policy think tank, and is surrounded by Mennonites who reject high technology. I literally could not have made this place up -- but it really exists, in all its myriad wonder, just a hour west of where I live now, and it was my home in the summer of 1980.

You can read the whole article (by Brent Davis) right here.

And don't forget to come see me in Waterloo tomorrow night!

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Bookbits creates a Wake book trailer

Craig Rintoul of Bookbits came by yesterday and recorded an audio interview with me about Wake, which he's now whipped into a nifty book trailer for the novel. You can watch it on YouTube. Many thanks, Craig! (Runtime: 6 minutes.)

(Penguin Canada's trailer -- of a very different sort -- for Wake is also on YouTube; it runs 70 seconds.)

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Major RJS profile in today's Winnipeg Free Press

Morley Walker, the long-time books editor of The Winnipeg Free Press, has a major, lengthy profile of Robert J. Sawyer on page 1 of today's (Thursday, May 14, 2009) Entertainment section.

(The Free Press, a major Canadian daily newspaper, is the largest-circulation paper in Manitoba.)

You can read it online right here.

An excerpt:

Robert J. Sawyer [is] Canada's most successful science-fiction author. In the last decade, as his own career has exploded, Sawyer has become one of Canada's go-to guys for science explanations and prognostications.

As the author of novels that synthesize and dramatize the latest scientific thinking, he is often called Canada's answer to Michael Crichton, the late American author of such books as Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain.

"I like that analogy, except for one thing," Sawyer says. "Crichton had a pessimistic view of science and technology. I am very pro-science."

Winnipeg novelist David Annandale praises Sawyer for creating engaging characters and setting them in fast-paced narrative that contains accessible scientific speculation.

"He has, I think, one of these enthusiasms for science that is genuinely joyful," says Annandale, who teaches English and film at the University of Manitoba.

"And this translates into a drive to pass on to the reader a similar passion."

The article ends with me saying: "I love my job. In the best atheist sense of the word, I feel blessed."

And then there's the sidebar, which says:

Close Encounters of the Sawyer Kind

Robert J. Sawyer was born April 29, 1960, in Ottawa. Raised in Toronto, he resides in Mississauga with his wife, poet Carolyn Clink.

In the last 20 years, he has sold 20 science-fiction novels to U.S. publishers, and his books have been translated into 14 languages.

He is one of only seven writers in history -- and the only Canadian -- to win all three of the world's top science-fiction awards for best novel of the year: the Hugo (in 2003 for Hominids), the Nebula (in 1996 for The Terminal Experiment), and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (in 2006 for Wake).

He has also won a record 10 Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards (Auroras), as well as an Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada.

He's also won the top science-fiction awards in China, France, Japan and Spain; in total he has received 41 national and international awards for his writing.

In 2008 was named one of the "30 most influential, innovative, and just plain powerful people in Canadian publishing" by Quill & Quire, the Canadian publishing trade journal.

He is "by any reckoning, among the most successful Canadian authors ever," according to Maclean's.

He has made almost 500 radio and TV appearances, including Canada AM, NPR's Science Friday, and Rivera Live with Geraldo Rivera.

His award-winning website,
sfwriter.com, was the world's first science-fiction author website and has been called "the best author's page on the Internet."

ABC-TV has just purchased 13 episodes of a new sci-fi series called Flash Forward, based on Sawyer's 1999 novel. It stars Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love) and John Cho (Star Trek).

May 2009 "Author of the Month" Robert J. Sawyer at the McNally Robinson store in Toronto; this photo by Carolyn Clink ran in the Winnipeg Free Press on May 14, 2009.

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Hardcore Nerdity interviews Rob

Adrienne Kress, Robert J. Sawyer, Lesley Livingston
Yes, my job is way better than your job  ... ;)
Lesley Livingston of the wonderful website Hardcore Nerdity interviewed me just before the start of my Toronto book launch for Wake on Thursday, April 30, 2009 -- and now our conversation is online as a podcast right here (runtime: 15 minutes, 27 seconds).

Lesley, by the way, is an author in her own right; her new novel is the great YA fantasy Wondrous Strange.

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Rob interviewed on Alamo AM

For eleven years now, Mike Shinabery, a radio broadcaster and journalist in Alamogordo, New Mexico, has been doing lengthy, meaty radio interviews with me -- Mike does his research, knows his science, and is himself an SF fan.

Last month, on April 9, 2009, he had me on his morning show on KSRY AM 1230 for 40 minutes talking about my new novel Wake -- my tenth time on his show!

You can listen to the whole thing right here. (Mike's co-host is Jean Vallance.)

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Rob returns to the Howard Gluss Radio Show

I'll be the guest for half an hour this Tuesday night, May 12, 2009, on The Howard Gluss Radio Show, starting at 11:00 p.m. Eastern time (8:00 p.m. Pacific), talking about my novel Wake. The show is based in Los Angeles, but you can listen online anywhere in the world. :)

More info is here, and my previous appearnce on Dr. Gluss's show is here.

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The Toronto Star on Wake and RJS

The Toronto Star -- Canada's largest circulation newspaper -- has an article about Robert J. Sawyer and his novel Wake in the Sunday, May 10, 2009, edition; the article is by Philip K. Dick Award-finalist Minister Faust.

Faust says, in part:

Best known as the author of the Hugo Award-winning Hominids, Sawyer is Canada's answer to near-future science-ponderer Michael Crichton. He's also a pacifist, whose oeuvre is at odds with much of science fiction, supposedly the literature of big ideas but which so often descends to war-porn and genocidal wish-fulfilment.

Sawyer's success proves that science fiction doesn't have to be that way. Frequently against an unabashedly Canadian backdrop, Sawyer's tales engage issues as diverse as the existence of God, Neanderthal ethics and techno-immortality. His career of delivering provocative novels, without murder as the key dramatic device, proves that the genre formerly known as the "scientific romance" is as relevant as ever, if not more.

The whole article is here.

Sawyer also appeared on Minister Faust's Edmonton radio show recently; that audio interview is here.

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Minister Faust interviews Robert J. Sawyer

Minister Faust -- one of Canada's leading SF writers (author of Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad from Del Rey), and a renowned Edmonton radio personality -- interviews Robert J. Sawyer about Rob's new novel Wake.

You can listen to the 14-minute interview, which was first heard on Edmonton's CJSR Radio on April 24, 2009, right here.

Says Minister Faust in the introduction:

Robert J. Sawyer is a Canadian Michael Crichton, fascinated with how developments in science will affect present-day and day-after-tomorrow individuals and society. His breadth of comprehension of scientific ideas is astounding, and his deployment of that understanding in his fiction is always exciting, memorable, and debate-provoking.

Among the topics we discuss: the inclusiveness, and ethnic/cultural diversity, featured in my fiction; the challenge of writing a trilogy; my approach to high-level metaphors; and how I managed to capture the voice of a 15-year-old girl.

(And more about Wake is here.)

Update: Minister Faust also interviews Robert J. Sawyer in the 10 May 2009 Toronto Star.

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SciFiDimensions podcasts Rob

The terrific online SF magazine SciFi Dimensions has a meaty podcast interview with Robert J. Sawyer right here. Among other things, we talk about my new novel Wake, the forthcoming Flash Forward TV series, and author Nick DiChario, whom I publish under my Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint.

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Ottawa Citizen on Wake

The Ottawa Citizen -- the largest circulation newspaper in Canada's capital city -- has not one but two articles about Wake today:

Future Looks Bright to Sci-Fi Writer Sawyer

Web and Brain Merge in Profound Vision of Future

Woohoo!

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The Edmonton Journal profiles RJS

And a very nice piece it is, too. You can read it here (as reprinted in The Ottawa Citizen).

(The Edmonton Journal is the major daily newspaper in the capital city of the province of Alberta.)

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Blog "Science Fiction and Other Oddysseys" interviews Rob

The blog "Science Fiction and Other Oddysseys" just posted a nice interview with me conducted by Ann Wilkes. You can read it here, and more about my novel Wake, which I discuss in the interview (among other things) here.

Pictured: Robert J. Sawyer and Ann Wilkes at Rob's signing at Borderlands Books in San Francisco on Monday, April 13, 2009.

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Wake links

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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
  

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Audio interviews with Rob about Wake:

• Peter Anthony Holder of Montreal Talk Radio CJAD (30 minutes)

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Rob interviewed by Peter Anthony Holder

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).

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Tor.com interviews RJS

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.

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SF Signal interviews RJS

A good, meaty interview, on the occasion of the publication of Wake, is now up over at SF Signal. John DeNardo conducted the interview.

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The Maine Edge reviews Wake and interviews Rob

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 here and the review here.

Among other things, the review says:

Wake is about as good as it gets when it comes to science fiction. In Caitlin, Sawyer has created a likable and sympathetic hero. She's smart, sure, but also full of sass, which lends itself to some wildly entertaining reading. Sawyer's combination of writing skill and computing background come together marvelously in this book. The characters are rich and realistic, while the ideas are fresh and fascinating.

The interviewer and the reviewer is Allen Adams.

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