… I’d be going here. I love Julian Jaynes’s The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. (That’s Jaynes above; more on the Denver World Science Fiction Convention — the same damn weekend — is here.) The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Almost 12 years ago, in January 1996, I bought a then state-of-the-art printer, a Lexmark Optra R+ monochrome laser printer (16 pages per minute; max resolution 1200 dpi). It’s been having a few problems of late — the fan stalls sometimes, and the duplexer stopped working. So, this morning Carolyn and I swapped out the […]
Sir Arthur C. Clarke turns 90 today — and he’s sent a birthday update to the world via this YouTube video. I’ve never met him (although I did meet his brother Fred once, so, genetically, I’ve met 50% of Sir Arthur!), but he is, and always has been, my favourite SF author, ever since my […]
An interesting auction on eBay: the working copy of the manuscript for my novelette “Ineluctable” with Analog editor Stan Schmidt’s notations, and artist Frank Kelly Freas’s rough sketches on it (Kelly did the art for the story). I’ve got nothing to do with this auction — just thought it was interesting (the link will go […]
Fictionwise.com, very wisely in my view, has made virutally all of their Multiformat ebooks (mostly short stories, but lots of novels, too) available in the format used by the Amazon Kindle eBook reader (and the Sony Reader, too). Check it all out here. And that means — very cool! — that Analog Science Fiction and […]
A reader wrote to me today, “Earth and Moon should always be capitalized; and if your line editors are sloppy, then tell them so!” (In Mindscan, much of which does take place on Earth’s natural satellite, I made a conscious choice not to capitalize “moon.”) My response: On the capitalization of Earth, Moon, etc., we’ll […]
Oodles of them, right here, courtesty of The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intellegence. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
How’s that for a lot of initials? Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show — a wonderful online magazine — has made its interview with me in the current issue, conducted by the always insightful Darrell Schweitzer, available right here for free. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
I often get email from students asking me questions about my science-fiction writing, but today’s email contained questions from a student on an entirely different topic: dual citizenship (I hold both Canadian and American citizenship): In my Honors Colloquium on immigration, the discussion arose about the merits and problems with dual citizenship. My instructor said […]
Just a quick note to say I’ll be at the science-fiction convention Arisia over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend, January 18-21, 2008, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
My buddy Walter H. Hunt, author of the Dark Wing series from Tor, is in Toronto for a conference, and so we had lunch today. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Home at last! In the last six days, I’ve taken eight flights — something that’s always risky in winter. Indeed, one of my flights was almost canceled, and for two of the others, my connections ended up being so tight (because my earlier flights on those days had been delayed by bad weather) that I […]
Nicholas Collins’s BookBlog has nice reviews of Rollback and Fossil Hunter. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
(Photo: Sara Morgan, Robert J. Sawyer, Roger Adams) On Tuesday, December 4, 2007, Robert J. Sawyer gave the keynote address (“Science Fiction as a Mirror for Reality”) at the Dedication Ceremony of the David J. Williams III Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Collection, at Kansas State University. The collection, consisting of 3,000 items, includes a […]
A very nice review (scoll down, past the cover copy) of my Foreigner is here. (And thanks to Kirstin Morrell for drawing this to my attenion.) The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
I’m not teaching there in 2008, but I do recommend Jeanne Cavelos’s Odyssey workshop. Check it out. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Yes, already! Nominations are now being accepted online for the Aurora Awards to be given in May 2008 at Keycon; these nominations are for work first published or done in 2007. You must be a Canadian citizen (not necessarily resident in Canada) or a Canadian resident to nominate; there is no charge to do so. […]
So, I got this question via email today (no please, no thank you, just the naked question): “Re: sci-fi short stories. Where would I submit short story?” My reply: “To whichever science-fiction magazine is your favorite; if you don’t have one — if you’re not actually reading the markets you want to sell to — […]
Whenever I visit the United States, people there ask me about immigrating to Canada, and increasingly so over the last couple of years. For those who are interested, here’s the official Canadian government site on immigrating to Canada. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
David S. Goyer, Robert J. Sawyer, Brannon Braga. David co-wrote Batman Begins; Brannon co-produced various Star Trek series; we had lunch at the wonderful Chateau Marmont … no special reason. :) Keith Calder, Robert J. Sawyer, and Jessica Wu. Keith and Jessica are principals of Snoot FX, the company that has Rob’s Hugo-nominated “Identity Theft” […]
Andre Bormanis, that is — science consultant, script writer, and producer for various Star Trek series. Carolyn and I joined Andre and his lady Micha for a wonderful dinner tonight (at a great L.A. restaurant called “The Nook”). Andre and I became friends at the NASA Ames / SETI conference we both attended back in […]
LosCon 34 in Los Angeles was wonderful — a really pleasant, really well-run convention. I particularly enjoyed spending time with David North Reynolds, the fan guest of honor — an archaeologist who has worked with Lucasfilm, and who shares my passion for The Land of the Lost (from which the still above comes). Another highlight: […]
… but I did, today — yay! We love what you’ve done. It makes a lot of great points, and also manages to be a great read. I don’t think we need to make any requests for changes. The note was from Carol Toller of Report on Business Magazine, the glossy monthly magazine included with […]
A nice little article by the terrific John Joseph Adams is here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
I’ll be on the radio program Holder Tonight tonight (well, early Wednesday morning) at 1:00 a.m. Eastern time, talking about, among other things Robert J. Sawyer Books, the line I edit for Red Deer Press. Holder Tonight is hosted by Peter Anthony Holder (above), and is heard in Montreal on CJAD 800 AM and Toronto […]
My former writing student Ed Willett — he twice took my course at Banff — does a weekly science column for the Regina Leader-Post and the CBC in Saskatchewan, and this week’s column is inspired by my editorial on robot ethics in the current issue of the journal Science. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
The Kansas City Star‘s Top Five SF&F Books of 2007 (alphabetically by author’s last name): The Guild of Xenolinguists, by Sheila Finch. Watch your language; ETs may be listening. The Accidental Time Machine, by Joe Haldeman. A mans time machine moves in one direction forward. Rollback, by Robert J. Sawyer. A procedure that should takes […]
Well, after thinking about it for five days, I’ve decided that the particular showing I saw at the Empire theatre in Mississauga of the classic two-part Star Trek episode “The Menagerie” was a disappointment. There’s no way the theatre was using a true 1080p HD projector; my guess is that it was just VGA quality […]
I can’t say I really enjoyed doing the Star Trek vs. Star Wars piece earlier this week, but I really loved the interview on Definitely Not the Opera I did on privacy. I just (Saturday afternoon) caught the Winnipeg CBC feed of it, but you can still get the Calgary or Vancouver feeds at a […]
… is here, at least for the time being. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
