The final ballot of the Aurora Awards is now available, at long last. I’ve added a wiki version of the list of finalists to the Canadian SF Works Database that Marcel Gagné and I created earlier this year. If you know of a nominated work that is available online, go there and add a hyperlink […]
After two weeks in China, Carolyn and I are struggling mightily with Jet-lag. It’s 15 hours earlier here in Dawson than it is in Beijing, and our internal clocks are not adjusting. We finally got to sleep at 7:00 a.m. this morning and got up at almost 2:00 this afternoon — which would have been […]
With the just-announced nomination of my short story “Biding Time” for Canada’s Aurora Award, I’ve hit a major career milestone: my 100th award nomination. It’s a number that astonishes and delights me, and it breaks down thus (the number in brackets is actual wins): Analog Analytical Laboratory Award: 1 (1) Aurora Award: 33 (9) Barry […]
It looks like Astronomicon, the wonderful little SF con in Rochester, New York, has been canceled for this year. It was to have been November 9-11, 2007, but that info is gone from their website, which now says “Our next convention will be held in November, 2008.” I was guest of honor at Astronomicon 5 […]
After a wonderful two-week trip to China, Carolyn and I are back at Berton House in Dawson, Yukon. We’ll be here for 24 more days. I still plan to get more pictures and commentary up about the Chengdu SF conference, but for now — back to work on my novel! The Robert J. Sawyer Web […]
A Call for On-Site Aurora Voting at Con*Cept We now face a major crisis — yet again — related to the credibility of the Aurora Awards, thanks to the tardiness of release of the final ballot. The facts: 1) For good or ill, VCon, the convention at which the Aurora Awards will be presented in […]
Yup, that’s right: Dennis promised — his word — that he’d FINALLY have the Aurora Ballot done by Labor Day. But apparently that’s not to be; the promise has disappeared from the Aurora website, to be replaced with: “Apologies for the delays. 2007 voting ballot will become available later this week. As well as mail-in […]
Today, Sunday, September 2, was our last full day in Beijing. Once again, the wonderful Juana and Dede were our guides. We started with shopping (well, the women shopped — I parked myself in the English-language bookstore and browsed). Then it was off to lunch at a restaurant Juana recommended — terrific. After that it […]
Yesterday (Saturday, September 1, 2007) Carolyn and I were met at our hotel (the Park Plaza Beijing) by Juana, a lovely woman who had worked as a translator at the Chengdu SF conference, and her friend Dede — and also by a wonderful guide we’d hired for the day who used the western name Remington. […]
Yay! I, of course, am thrilled! Montreal Worldcon Homepage The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
A provocative banner outside the Beijing Book Fair We began today by making an appearance at the Beijing International Book Fair. No sooner had we arrived than we ran into Neil Gaiman, who accompanied us to the Canadian Publishing booth, where Fitzhenry & Whiteside, and my Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint, were very well represented. […]
I will be reading at the International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront in October. More details as I get them, but information about the Festival is here. This is one of the largest and most prestigious writers’ festivals in the world, and I’m thrilled to be part of it again. The Robert J. Sawyer Web […]
Neil Gaiman also attended the Chengdu Science Fiction and Fantasy Conference, and he’s much further ahead in getting it blogged than I am. Check out his excellent reportage here, and in the other posts Neil links to at the end of that one. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Yesterday (Thursday, August 30, 2007), Carolyn and I hired a driver and guide to take us on the road trip to a portion of The Great Wall of China, and we hiked along the wall. This was, I think, the hardest physical exercise I’ve ever done. It was boiling hot, the sun was beating down […]
I promise to post lots more pictures of my China trip when I have a chance, but for now, here’s one: that’s a real live panda bear in my lap. Do I have the coolest job in the world, or what? ;) The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
CBC Radio’s Q with Jian Ghomeshi interviews Robert J. Sawyer about his winning China’s Galaxy Award for Most Popular Science Fiction Author of the Year. You can listen here (grab the Tuesday 28 August 2007 show). The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
The article in Tuesday’s Globe and Mail about my Galaxy Award win is based in part on this email interview I did with the Globe‘s James Adams yesterday: Have any of your novels been translated into Cantonese or Mandarin for the mainland China market? Or have your books just been brought in as English-language imports […]
The Globe and Mail: Canada’s National Newspaper reports on Robert J. Sawyer winning the Galaxy Award, China’s top science-fiction award, for most popular foreign author here. Quill and Quire, Canada’s publishing trade journal, has its report on Rob’s win here. And CBC Radio One’s Q interviews Rob today: In about two hours, as I post […]
Says Dennis Mullin, “Apologies for the delays. I’m aiming for sooner, but promise the 2007 voting ballot will become available on the website no later than Labor Day.” In other words, he’s just delayed it another full week after the latest possible day he’d said it would be available. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
… is here, with photos. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
A good article, with photos, is here. Oh, and the CBC has a nice piece about my award win here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
CHENGDU, CHINA, 26 AUGUST 2007: Robert J. Sawyer of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, today won China’s top science-fiction award, the Galaxy Award, in the category “Most Popular Foreign Author of the Year.” The award, voted on by Chinese readers, was presented at the Chengdu International Science Fiction and Fantasy Festival, the largest science-fiction conference ever held […]
Tomorrow, Carolyn and I start our Long March to China! :) We take two flights tomorrow — Dawson to Whitehorse, then Whitehorse to Vancouver, and we stay overnight in Vancouver. Then on Wednesday, it’s two more flights: Vancouver to Beijing, and Beijing to Chengdu. We’ll be attending the Chengdu International Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention; […]
David Seltzer, a reader of mine in Palm Beach, who is currently reading Calculating God, sent me this link to a cartoon, which certainly is apropos of that book, and sadly is pretty much spot on. The cartoonist is Wiley, and the strip is called “Non Sequitur.” The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Dennis Mullin has yet again delayed release of the final Aurora ballot for 2007. It was to have been released in July; he then changed that to today, Saturday, August 18 — handily making sure that no ballots or copies of work could be available for Con-Version, the Calgary regional con, which is happening this […]
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… on Friday, August 19, 1988, I bought what was then, and still is, the most expensive computer I’ve ever owned (and, at that time, was the most expensive thing I’d ever bought — and, come to think of it, I think it still is, except for cars and real estate). Moore’s Law rocks — […]
My three favourite things are dinosaurs, science fiction, and beautiful women — so what could be a more perfect way to start the day than getting an email from the beautiful Kirstin Morrell containing a link to an article about dinosaurs in science fiction? Check it out here, on the blog “Prehistoric Pulp.” The Robert […]
Challenging Destiny is a really well done Canadian science-fiction ezine, available through the good folks at Fictionwise, and the current issue (number 24) contains the story “Like Water in the Desert” by one of my best friends, Hayden Trenholm. Visit the zine’s website here, and pick up the latest issue online over here. The Robert […]
Riffs on Michaelangelo’s painting on the roof of the Sistine Chapel are common, and, as it happens one of my favorite nonfiction authors, Frans de Waal, has just gotten one on the cover of his latest book, Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved, published by Princeton University Press. But I think Tor Books did a […]
