Rollback a Main Selection of the SFBC

I am totally thrilled and delighted to announce that my forthcoming novel Rollback will be a Main Selection of Doubleday's Science Fiction Book Club in May 2007.

The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site

Publishers Weekly loves Rollback

The first review of my upcoming Rollback is in, and it's a corker: Publishers Weekly -- the trade journal for the book business -- has given Rollback a "starred review," their highest honor; starred reviews "denote books of exceptional merit."

An excerpt from the review, which is in the 15 January 2007, edition:

Canadian author Sawyer (Mindscan) once again presents likable characters facing big ethical dilemmas in this smoothly readable near-future SF novel. Sawyer, who has won Hugo and Nebula awards, may well win another major SF award with this superior effort.

Go me! :)

The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site

Press Release for Rollback

I have excellent publicists at Tor and H.B. Fenn (Tor's Canadian distributor); Alexis Saarela is my publicist at Tor and Janis Ackroyd is my publicist at Fenn.

But I also always do up a press release of my own for my novels, in addition to the ones they do. And that press release for Rollback is now online as a web page and as a very pretty PDF.

As I've said on my website in an article on getting good press, it's important to find a news angle for your story, because no one but your mother cares that you've written a novel. For Rollback, I'm stressing the prospects for extending the human lifespan ...
 

Tweaks to the Rollback cover

The cover for Rollback has been slightly revised. The illustration is the same, but the typography is different, and even nicer). The new version looks like this:



My name is now in a typeface called Minion, and the title of the book is in Yearling Light.


The old version looked like this:



You'll find a high-res version of the new cover, in all its glory, here -- your browser may shrink it; if so, click on the image to see it full size. Note that there's subtle detail in the background -- it's not uniformly black; you may have to turn up the brightness on your monitor to see this.

Many thanks to Irene Gallo and her team at Tor for another wonderful cover!
 

Opening chapters of Rollback

The opening chapters of Rollback are now available to whet your appetitie on my website as a web page, a Word document, an RTF file, and a PDF. Read 'em online, download them, print them out, or synch them to your PDA or ebook reader.

The book comes out April 3, 2007, from Tor.