Robert J. Sawyer Books is an imprint of Red Deer Press. Long-time publisher Dennis Johnson has moved on to greener pastures, and Richard Dionne will be the new publisher starting September 1, 2007. Red Deer Press was bought two years ago by Toronto’s Fitzhenry & Whiteside, and Richard has been a mainstay there. My profound […]
I was asked to recommend some great science fiction for a sidebar to an interview with me — but the magazine never used the sidebar, so I thought I’d post my recommendations here: The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (Tor). Wells created it all: time travel, space voyages, alien invasions, genetic engineering, antigravity, invisibility — […]
And it’s a good interview, too. See for yourself. (The interviewer is Rachel Moran, who was 17 at the time this intervew was done, and was then a senior at Pittsford Sutherland High School in Pittsford, NY. The interview was done in 2003 for a print publication for students about possible careers called NextStep; I […]
An email I received today: I loved your website and was very impressed with your bio and all the awards that you have received. What a wonderful life you must be enjoying. Great! I have written a mystery novel. The book is already in print, but I need an expert to tell me my next […]
… is here, in this tutorial by George Scithers, the editor of Weird Tales magazine. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
I’m delighted to announce that Snoot Entertainment in Los Angeles has renewed its option on film rights to my Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated novella “Identity Theft,” first published in the anthology Down These Dark Spaceways, edited by Mike Resnick for the Science Fiction Book Club. And, I’ve got to say, I love dealing with these […]
I won’t be there — I’m in the Yukon for the summer — but one of my absolute favourite SF conventions is happening in just one month: Con-Version in Calgary. Author Guest of Honour this year is my great buddy Jack McDevitt. I recommend the con hightly, and encourage you to attend — Calgary is […]
Hey, I used to have hair! Someone is putting up clips from the wonderful Canadian series about science fiction and comics called Prisoners of Gravity on YouTube. I was the most-frequent guest in that program’s history … and one of my earlierst appearances, from 17 years ago, is here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
The Auroras are the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards. Any Canadian may nominate, and there is no charge t do so. Ballots are here. A good list of eligible works is here. And my own eligible story, “Biding Time,” is here, as a Word document. Ballots must be postmarked by Monday, July 23, 2007. […]
Don’t know where they got it — maybe Donato’s site — but the above version of the Hominids cover art without the text overlay — something I’ve never seen before — accompanies a very nice write up about the Hugo Award-winning first volume of my Neanderthal Parallax trilogy over at Site 101. The Robert J. […]
Space Channel has just put up a 23-minute interview with me, which includes a tour of my home. You can see it right here. Cheers, Rob The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
So, when I was heading up here, the previous writer said the little stereo at Berton House didn’t have the right jack to plug in an MP3 player. Well, that turned out not to be true, but I’d left my cable back in Toronto because I’d been told I wouldn’t need it. But a week […]
Well, what should be in my in-box this morning but an invitation to be a special guest at next year’s San Diego Comic-Con! Holy cow! Needless to say, I said yes. So, see y’all at Comic-Con — the largest popular-culture convention in the world, with 120,000 people attending — July 24-28, 2008. Yay! The Robert […]
It’s been over five years since I’ve had multiple short stories by me available on my website. But Carolyn has been hard at work here in the Yukon, and the full text of 13 early stories by me is now available for free right here. Enjoy! (So Google will find this: Free science fiction short […]
“I’ve seen a part of myself no man should ever see.” — James T. Kirk, “The Enemy Within” In honour of the beginning of my three months of being in the Yukon, I’ve shaved off my beard — for the first time in over three years. I’m going to grow it back immediately, though … […]
Stanley Schmidt, the long-time (almost 30 years now!) editor of Analog is interviewed by Ernest Lilley over at SF Revu — and, to my delight, Stan says: “I like the entire range of lengths in different ways, because they have different kinds of strength when well executed. One of my all-time favorite stories was Robert […]
The SETI conference (“The Future of Intelligence in the Cosmos”) at the NASA Ames Research Center wrapped up this afternoon, and I thought there should be a picture of the science fiction writers who participated: Left to right: Andre Bormanis, Jack McDevitt, Robert J. Sawyer, Gregory Benford. It was a fabulous conference, and I had […]
I’m delighted to report that Rollback is number five on the Locus hardcover bestsellers’ list, as reported in the July 2007 issue (covering the data period of April 2007); Locus is the trade journal of the SF field. Not only is number five a very good number in its own right, but I’ll point out […]
Although I’m spending Canada Day weekend in the US (at this conference at the NASA Ames Research Center), I’m still celebrating my country’s birthday. On Friday night, I went to Kells pub in San Francisco for the “Canada Day in San Francisco” celebration, organized by the Canadian consulate (and I also stopped by the Apple […]
Another article about the firing (as it turns out) of California Air Resources Board chairman Robert Sawyer — and what a handsome devil he is! Hee hee hee. At least the Pat Murphy they show farther down in the article isn’t the SF writer by the same name … :) The Robert J. Sawyer Web […]
That’s how I feel here at the NASA Ames research centre. The conference on THE FUTURE OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE COSMOS is going really well. I moderated the session on cultural evolution today. Dinner was at a wonderful Chinese restaurant called Chef Chu. I sat next to Marvin Minsky, from MIT’s AI lab. Also […]
Well, it’s just after midnight here, meaning it’s now Friday, June 29, 2007 — and that day happens to be the 12th anniversary of my website. I was, by all accounts, the very first science-fiction writer to have a website, and it’s been of enormous value to me over the last dozen years. If you […]
Yes, that Science — the world’s leading journal of original scientific research — recommends Robert J. Sawyer’s Frameshift as one of its summer reading choices in the June 29, 2007, issue — and Frameshift is mentioned in the Science podcast for that same date, starting at the 32-minute mark: What will you be reading on […]
Normally, by this point in one of my books’ lives, my readers would have pointed out several typos, but so far no one has found a single one in Rollback. However, three astute readers have pointed out three errors I made, and I’ve asked Tor to fix them in the paperback: Page 145, fourth full […]
The paperback of Rollback comes out February 6, 2008. That seems a long time from now (and it is, it is!, so you should all rush out and buy the hardcover!<grin>), but by the time I’m back in Toronto in October, the cover for the paperback will long since be done, and so I spent […]
… as you can see here, in Lou’s blog, in which he cites John Scalzi’s interview with me. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Yeah, it’s totally true: my life rocks. :) Tomorrow, I fly off to California for a two-day invitation-only workshop at the NASA Ames Research Center. The conference is entitled “The Future of Intelligence in the Cosmos,” and it’s being jointly organized by NASA Ames, the SETI Institute, and the University of California Santa Cruz. The […]
I feel rather sad about this. For the last couple of years, about half the Google news alerts that I’ve seen for my name have really been related to another Robert Sawyer, the gentleman pictured above. Dr. Sawyer was chairman of California’s Air Resources Board — but today he resigned, and I suspect I won’t […]
I delivered today the final, revised manuscript for my forthcoming short-story collection Identity Theft and Other Stories. It will be published in February 2008 by Red Deer Press, and distributed by Fitzhenry & Whiteside (the same fine people who do my Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint). Meanwhile, I’m delighted to report that Red Deer Press […]
John Scalzi (above), the wonderful author of Old Man’s War, interviews Robert J. Sawyer over on John’s Ficlets blog. It’s a hefty interview, weighing in at 3,400 words. (John also very nicely promotes the interview on his famed Whatever blog, and links to the interview with me, plus one he just did with my great […]
