So, I’m asked — nay, begged — to contribute something to an academic collection about science fiction, and I offer up a really fine essay, if I do say so myself. Of course, there’s no payment for use, even though they intend to sell the book at a high price. And here’s the license they […]
One of the special privileges of being an author or editor is getting to dedicate a book to someone. And I am touched, honoured, and thrilled to have dedicated to me the new two-volume set of Leacock’s Fantasia: The Fantastic Stories and Sketches, edited by John Robert Colombo, and published by The Battered Silicon Dispatch […]
Second Life’s Talis SciFi & Fantasy Portal book-discussion group is doing my novel Rollback this Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 6:30 SLT (Pacific Time). Open your Second Life desktop software, then click on this Second Life URL to come join the party. My Second Life name is “SF Writer,” and our host is “Rebekah Cavan.” The […]
The Davis Enterprise is the newspaper in Davis, California. On May 17, 2007 (although I only just found out about it today), the paper reviewed my Rollback; the reviewer was Kristin Gray, and here’s some of what she had to say: Whenever I hear the adage that science fiction one day will become science fact, […]
Get information about eligible works here, at the Canadian SF Works Database Get a nominating ballot here, at the official Aurora Awards site And — cough, cough — see my own eligible story “Biding Time” right here, as a Word document The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
I just posted this five-star review on Amazon.com of The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing our Culture by Andrew Keen: There’s so much received wisdom already about Web 2.0 — so many people who have already staked out turf, and announced that THIS is the way it’s going to be — […]
Check it all out here — and have fun! The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Well, today’s talk for the Health and Science Communications Association went really well; as a friend of mine would say, I kicked butt and took names. :) Meanwhile, yesterday’s talk (gak! was it only yesterday?) for the Canadian Public Relations Society in Edmonton also went really, really well. I did a little interview with one […]
I’m giving a keynote today at the 48th Annual International Conference on Health and Science Communiciation: Marching Together with Technology into the Future Robert J. SawyerAuthor and Futurist (sfwriter.com) Many industries still haven’t embraced 20th-century technology, and we’re now well into the 21st! A look at the state-of-the-art in technologies such as voice recognition, face […]
Just got back from Alberta. I gave a keynote address to the Canadian Public Relation Society‘s annual meeting (this year entitled “Fast Forward”) in Edmonton. My talk was very well received. My friend Barb Galler-Smith, herself a fine science-fiction writer, picked me up at the airport yesterday, and returned me there today. Last night, she, […]
… and the Canadian SF Works Database wiki that Marcel Gagné and I started has a wonderfully long list of eligible works. Check the list out here, and please read over my own eligible story, “Biding Time” (which the Globe and Mail called “excellent” in a recent review). Grab a ballot here, and get it […]
A very talented artist named Stephen J. Greene has sent me these terrific illustrations he did of characters from my “Quintaglio Ascension” trilogy (Far-Seer, Fossil Hunter, and Foreigner). Click on the small versions below to see them full size. Afsan and Gork Dybo Miscellaneous Quintaglios The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
The wonderful people at H.B. Fenn and Company (Tor’s Canadian distributor) had me do a signing at their booth at BookExpo Canada today. Fenn gave away 200 hardcovers of Rollback to booksellers, librarians, reviewers, and so forth — $6,000 worth of books! I signed them all — and my hand was getting tired by the […]
Be warned: lots and lots of purple and pink! Read the interview here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
The sign over my head shows the Penguin logo and the slogan “The Great Books Are Here.” Who are we to argue? Today, at BookExpo Canada, Penguin Canada threw a wonderful champagne reception, and on hand were (if I may be so bold) four major figures of Canadian science-fiction and fantasy: Robert J. Sawyer, Guy […]
The Saturday, June 9, 2007, edition of The Globe and Mail: Canada’s National Newspaper reviews Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer. The whole review is here; the reviewer is named Cori Dusmann. Among other very nice things, the review says: While Rollback is, on the surface, a book about reaching out to those across the universe, […]
Carolyn and I will be closing down our eBay store — through which we sell signed copies of my books — at the end of next week, since we’re going away for the summer. The store will re-open in October, but if you want to get signed copies before then, please place your order soon. […]
My friend and writing student Nicholas Collins sent me these wonderful jokes he came up with, based on my books. You’ll have to know my novels well to get them all — but I think they’re terrific! How many mindscans (uploads) does it take to change a light bulb? Only one, but it will cost […]
I’m delighted to present a series of audio files and podcasts: Editor Rob Sawyer interviewing authors who have published under his Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint at Fitzherny & Whiteside — plus readings by the authors from their books! Marcos Donnelly, author of Letters from the Flesh: Marcos interviewed by Rob Marcos reading from his […]
Romantic Times Book Reviews has reviewed Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer, calling it “Riveting — highly emotional and original; a complex story with sympathetic and believable characters.” The full review is here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Marcel Gagné and I were chatting about a big problem with the Aurora Awards, namely that there was no convenient centralized place for people to post information about Canadian-authored works that they themselves have written, or are aware of by other people, that are eligible (either for the Auroras or other annual awards). Well, this […]
The podcast “The Future and You” interviewed Robert J. Sawyer, Mike Resnick, David Coe, and a bunch of others at Ravencon in April 2007, and the interviews are now available in this week’s podcast, available here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
After the weekend in Sudbury, during which I got my honorary doctorate, Carolyn and I drove on to Sault Ste. Marie Ontario, where I spent the next two days — Monday, June 4, and Tuesday, June 5, 2007 — visiting with students from five area high schools. You can read an account of one of […]
Sunday, June 3, 2007 — the day after I got my honorary doctorate from Laurentian University — I did a victory lap in Sudbury, appearing at the Chapters bookstore there. :) We had an excellent overflow crowd, including several Laurentian faculty members and some of the students who had graduated the day before, and heard […]
Quill and Quire, the Canadian publishing trade journal, has just posted its cover-story profile of Robert J. Sawyer online; the cover story appeared in the May 2007 issue. The profile is titled “Nothing but blue skies: For Canadian sci-fi giant Robert J. Sawyer, the future is bright.” Read the full text here. Update March 2008: […]
On Saturday, June 2, 2007, Robert J. Sawyer received an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Letters, honoris causa) from Laurentian University, in Sudbury, Ontario; Sawyer also gave the convocation address to graduating arts students that day. The doctorate was given in recognition of Sawyer’s international success as a science-fiction writer. Laurentian, a bilingual English-and-French institution, is […]
Photos from the dinner at the Laurentian University president’s house. Minnijean Brown-Trickey was one of the Little Rock Nine, and is a prominent Civil Rights activist; Dr. Michael Emond, of Laurentian’s Department of Psychology, nominated science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer for his honorary doctorate, which he will receive later today; Minnijean also received an honorary […]
Carolyn and I had a very nice drive up through beautiful countryside to Sudbury, Ontario, today — about five hours on the road. Tonight, we had dinner at the home of the president of Laurentian; the dinner was in honour of myself and the other recipients of honorary doctorates this year, including Minnijean Brown Trickey. […]
Laurentian University is giving me an honorary doctorate TOMORROW (Saturday, June 2, 2007), and they will be webcasting the ceremony. You can watch it live as it happens, starting at 2:30 p.m. Eastern time (Toronto/New York) on Saturday, June 2, 2007, right here. (If that link doesn’t work, go to the main convocation page here, […]
I am thrilled to report that Nick DiChario‘s A Small and Remarkable Life, published under the Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint, has been short-listed for one of the most prestigious awards in all of science fiction: The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel of the Year. The short list is here. The Campbell […]
