To be young again, knowing all you know now… May not be the dream you hoped it would be. Adapted from the popular novel Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer, Rollback: The Play will premiere in Prince George, British Columbia! Thirty years in the future, technology provides us with the ability to roll back our bodies […]
Still lots of events left on the Wonder book tour! Reading and signing from Wonder The Ottawa International Writers Festival Mayfair Theatre 1074 Bank Street Ottawa, Ontario Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. Carleton Students with ID can get tickets for free General tickets are $15, reduced tickets are $10 writersfestival.org Reading and signing […]
Saskatoon McNally Robinson Booksellers Prairie Ink Restaurant 3130 8th Street East (8th Street at Circle Drive) Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. McNally Saskatoon Regina Keynote Speech 6th Annual University of Regina Student Research Conference University of Regina Research and Innovation Centre (RIC) room 119 Regina, Saskatchewan Friday, April 1, 2011 at […]
Over the next 13 months, I have eight new U.S. editions of books by me coming out (all are Ace, except the MINDSCAN and HUMANS reissues, which are Tor): WATCH mass-market paperback: April 2011 WONDER hardcover: April 2011 THE TERMINAL EXPERIMENT mass-market paperback: September 2011 HUMANS mass-market paperback: October 2011 MINDSCAN trade paperback: December 2011 […]
Con-Version, the long-standing Calgary SF&F convention, has announced its Annual General Meeting — just four days in advance of it actually taking place. The meeting is this Monday, March 21, 2011, at the Sentry Box in Calgary from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. A Facebook announcement is here. Robert J. Sawyer online:Website • Facebook • Twitter […]
The Walrus is a very popular Canadian glossy newsstand magazine, rather similar to The Atlantic. The April 2011 issue has a 2,500-word essay built around my WWW trilogy of Wake, Watch, and Wonder. The essay/review is called “Intelligence Deficit: What will happen when computers become smarter than people?,” and is written by Alex Hutchinson. You […]
Here’s the current itinerary for the Canadian book tour for Wonder, third and final book in the WWW Trilogy (more events will be added when they are confirmed, and the up-to-date list will always be here). All events are free, except for the mega-three-author blowout in Calgary, which is in a fancy theatre; that one’s […]
For those who’d pre-ordered WWW: Wonder through Amazon.ca (the Canadian Amazon), Amazon was mistakenly listing the American edition. They’ve now cancelled those orders, but unfortunately didn’t refer buyers to the Canadian edition. If you want to pre-order Wonder from Amazon.ca, this link will do the trick. Robert J. Sawyer online:Website • Facebook • Twitter • […]
I rather like putting meta-references in my books (sly things that acknowledge that they are, in fact, fiction), and sometimes I give a freebie to the reviewers — a chance for them to take a free shot (I still regret letting myself being talked out of calling my second short-story collection Infodumps). An example: for […]
W00t! Senior Editor Rome Quezada at the Science Fiction Book Club has just picked up my next novel WWW: Wonder, coming in April 2011, as a Main Selection of the Club. This is the fourth consecutive main selection I’ve had: Rollback, Wake, Watch, and Wonder. Needless to say, I’m thrilled. (In total, 12 of my […]
Every day, the front page of The Montreal Gazette, the major English-language daily paper in Montreal, contains a “Quote of the Day,” and on Thursday, November 25, 2010, the quote was from me:“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace” — Robert J. SawyerThe quote is from Chapter 14 of […]
Over at the National Post, one of Canada’s national newspapers, Mark Medley asks Canadian novelists to provide passwords for their fiction: single words that might sum up what they’re trying to do. My password was “rationality.”Rationality: the belief that the universe makes sense, that it is comprehensible to the human mind, that the scientific method […]
I’ll be reading and giving a talk as part of “The Eh? List” Canadian-author series at the Toronto Reference Library this Thursday, November 25, at 7:00 p.m. Come join me! Robert J. Sawyer online:Website • Facebook • Twitter • Newsgroup • Email
I agreed some time ago to give a general science and science fiction talk. The organizer sent me this proposed description for my talk today: The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be What did science fiction writers get right … and wrong … about “the future?”But that didn’t work for me. I wrote back […]
Twenty years ago today — November 15, 1990 — I received my very first copy of my very first novel. Golden Fleece was a mass-market paperback original from Warner Questar. It was technically a December 1990 title, but books trickle into stores a bit in advance of the publication month. A lot of water has […]
The amazing new official photograph of science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer, author of Wake and FlashForward. Click on the photograph for a high-resolution version. Photograph taken 12 November 2010 by Christina Molendyk. Robert J. Sawyer online:Website • Facebook • Twitter • Newsgroup • Email
My novel FlashForward, the basis for the ABC TV series of the same name, is set at CERN, so I’m always interested when scientists associated with CERN speak up about the fundamental nature of reality. And Russell Stannard does that today in the Huffington Post. I’ve posted a comment there, but here’s a longer version […]
Tomorrow night, Friday, October 22, 2010, come to the Pure Speculation Festival in Edmonton and see a live public reading of Virginia O’Dine‘s stage-play adapation of Robert J. Sawyer‘s Hugo Award-nominated novel Rollback. The play will have its formal debut in British Columbia next spring, but this reading will star me, Tanya Huff, Randy McCharles, […]
An email I just sent: Thank you for your latest phone call and follow-up email. I should be frank, though. Optioning film and TV rights to my works for up-front money is a major part of how I make my living. When we first spoke on the phone, you offered me as full compensation 15% […]
Literary agent Ralph Vicinanza, 60, died peacefully Sunday night, September 26, of a brain aneurysm. He was my agent for the past fifteen years, and one of the executive producers of FlashForward, the TV series based on my novel of the same name. I remember, years ago, when I was looking for a new agent […]
I recently had cause to introduce a publicist to my current trilogy of Wake, Watch, and Wonder, and created the cheat sheet below so he could quickly come up to speed the books: First, you should watch the three book trailers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB2nt-Oqjt4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3A4aetrhs4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XI-PTTSjJw Here’s a synopsis of the first book, Wake: http://sfwriter.com/syw1.htm And a […]
Terence M. Green and I are either in booth FB12 or WB12 today at Toronto’s Word on the Street — not sure which. The stuff we got from the organizers says FB12, but today’s Toronto Star says WB12. FB stands for “Fringe Beat,” and WB for “Writers’ Block” — so the latter makes more sense, […]
I was Special Guest at the wonderful science-fiction convention FenCon in Dallas last weekend, and there Glenda Boozer debuted her new filk song Math Geek Love, based on my novel WWW: Watch. I think it’s absolutely charming, and with Glenda’s kind permission, I’m sharing the lyrics here: Math Geek Love by Glenda Boozer Math geek, […]
Come see me at Toronto’s Word on the Street this Sunday, September 26, in booth FB 12 (“Fringe Beat 12”) along with Terence M. Green. (Our booth is on Queen’s Park Crescent East, north of Wellesley Street.) I’ll be at our booth all day, except 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., when I’ll be at the […]
Sci Fi Writer to Explore Fear of Human Obsolescence Center for Values Offers Program as Part of ‘Incite Your Curiosity’ Lecture Series As smartphones get smarter and computers get faster, humans, who err and just get slower with age, seem to be almost superfluous at times. But award-winning science fiction novelist Robert J. Sawyer isn’t […]
A very nice article about the treatment of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in my novels including Rollback and Factoring Humanity is online at Discovery News here. Robert J. Sawyer online:Website • Facebook • Twitter • Newsgroup • Email
In April 2009, I was asked by Cosmos, Australia’s leading science magazine, to contribute to their “Bookmark” column. Normally, that column has scientists recommending books; for the first time ever, they asked a science-fiction writer to do it instead. My suggestions appeared in issue 27: Robert J. Sawyer is a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning science-fiction […]
Happy 15th anniversary to my website — it’s older than Amazon.com, was the first science-fiction author site on the web, has been giving away fiction since the first week, and has over 1,000,000 words of content. Check it out at sfwriter.com. Robert J. Sawyer online:Website • Facebook • Twitter • Newsgroup • Email
The latest issue of The Journal of Consciousness Studies (Vol. 17, No. 5-6) lists “Notable Quotes” from this year’s Toward a Science of Consciousness conference in Tucson, including these from my keynote address:“Canada should have British culture, French cuisine, and American know-how. Instead, Canada has British cuisine, American culture, and French know-how.” “Scholars ask me […]
Here’s a first look at the cover for Wonder, concluding volume of my WWW trilogy, coming in early April 2011 from Ace in the US, Penguin in Canada, and Gollancz in the UK. Click the image for a larger version, and click again if your browser is still scaling it down. The covers for all […]
