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 […]
To my astonishment and delight, my Chinese publisher has just informed me that I’ve won the Galaxy Award, China’s top science-fiction award, in the category “Most-Popular Foreign Author of the Year.” Go me! And I will: all the way to Chengdu, China, to collect the award in person in August, and to attend the 2007 […]
Nominations for the 2007 Aurora Awards — the Canadian science fiction and fantasy awards — are now open. You can get the nominating ballot here. Any Canadian, whether or not resident in Canada, may nominate, and there’s no charge to do so. My own story, eligible for nomination, is the SF/mystery “Biding Time,” from the […]
I’m off to Montreal tonight to give the keynote address tomorrow moring at the conference “Reasons to Hope, Knowledge to Cope — Innovations in Cancer Patient Education,” being presented by the Cancer Patient Education Network Canada. I do a lot of keynotes for corporations and organizations, talking about the current and projected state of science […]
I have to confess to never having watched an episode of the ABC TV series Lost, but I know it’s hugely popular — and I know it has a main character named Sawyer. Well, a fan both of Lost and my work, points out that the name of a funeral home in a recent episode […]
Author Adam-Troy Castro and his wife Judi picked us up at the hotel at 10:00 a.m. and we drove the 50 miles to the Kennedy Space Centre (getting slightly lost on the way). The Castros’ rental car’s windshield got so plastered with splattered insects (“love bugs,” we were told they were called) that we actually […]
There’s a good video here about The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Check it out, and Digg it if you like it! The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Anybody out there got a copy of the bulletin/catalog of the Science Fiction Book Club, that has my Rollback listed as a main selection? If you don’t need your copy, I’d love to have it for my files. My address is: Robert J. Sawyer100 City Centre DrivePO Box 2065Mississauga ON Canada L5B 3C6 Many, many […]
Karen Bennett has a wonderful survey article on her website entitled The Speculative Torontos of Robert Charles Wilson and Robert J. Sawyer. Check it out! The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
And so, with the end of Oasis 20, the SF convention in Orlando, Florida, at which I was one of the Guests of Honor this weekend, the book tour for Rollback, my 17th novel, comes to an end. From Vancouver, B.C., to Washington, D.C.; from Toronto to Denver; from Calgary to Orlando — 18 cities […]
In 2004, Mike Resnick was commissioned to edit an original anthology for the Science Fiction Book Club entitled Down These Dark Spaceways. It consisted of six novellas, all by award-winning SF writer, all hard-boiled-detective SF. The Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) in Spain sponsors the world’s largest cash prize for science-fiction writing, the 6,000-euro Premio […]
How’s this for a group of people on one convention panel? Mike Bishop, Jack McDevitt, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Joe Haldeman, Mike Resnick, and Robert J. Sawyer? You don’t usually get a line-up that stellar, if I do say so myself, even at a Worldcon, but that was the roster for the 7:00 p.m. panel on […]
The fourth and final phase of the Rollback book tour is coming to an end; this was the by-plane in the USA part. Last weekend, I was in Denver, and this weekend I’m in Orlando, Florida — where the weather is gorgeous! I’m one of the Guests of Honor at Oasis 20, the annual SF […]
When Publishers Weekly did its cover story on science fiction (in their April 2, 2007, issue), the lead interview was with me, Robert J. Sawyer. The article, by Bethanne Kelly Patrick and Michael Coffey, began: Robert J. Sawyer knows a thing or two about the future. “It’s here,” says the Hugo Award-winning author of 18 […]
Sadly, I won’t be at this year’s Worldcon in Japan. But having just returned from a trip to Denver, and been reminded of what a beautiful city it is, I can’t wait until next year’s Worldcon, which will be there. And I noted this morning, while looking at the convention’s website, that membership rates go […]
My Rollback is a current featured selection of the Science Fiction Book Club. The SFBC asked me for a comment on the book as its author; here’s what I had to say: One of the most interesting panels I ever saw at a science-fiction convention had Larry Niven and Mike Resnick on it. The moderator […]
Here’s a link to the review of Rollback in The Calgary Herald: Rollback; Robert J. SawyerThe Calgary HeraldSun 20 May 2007Page: C3Section: Books & The ArtsByline: Dan Healing SCI FI – Talk about a slow conversation. When Dr. Sarah Halifax decodes the first radio message ever received from aliens and helps write a response, the […]
I’m Guest of Honor at Oasis 20 this weekend along with Mike Resnick, Joe Haldeman, Michael Bishop, Kathleen Ann Goonan, and Jack McDevitt. Check it out! The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Dan Healing reviews Rollback in the Sunday, May 20, 2007, Calgary Herald, the major newspaper in that city. The review is on page C3; I haven’t yet been able to find it online, but it concludes: “This latest offering from sci-fi award collector Robert J. Sawyer meets all the requirements of summertime reading — it’s […]
Rollback is number 9 on the fiction bestsellers’ list in Calgary, Alberta, as published in The Calgary Herald, the major newspaper there: Calgary BestsellersThe Calgary HeraldSun 20 May 2007Page: C3Section: Books & The ArtsSource: For The Calgary HeraldFiction 1 (1) Divisadero, Michael Ondaatje. A haunting story that ranges from northern California to central France. 2 […]
Dozens of my short stories are available through Fictionwise.com, including Aurora winners and finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker Awards — and their all 25% off right now, as part of Fictionwise’s 7th anniversary sale. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
What a great name for a book-lover’s blog: Biblio’s Bloggins. Brilliant! The fact that the blogger loves Rollback, calling it “Sawyer’s best yet,” is just gravy … :) The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Phase Four (of four!) of the book tour for Rollback is now underway: by-plane in the United States. It started on Friday, May 18, 2007, when I flew from Toronto to Denver. The Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers had brought me in to run a day-long workshop for them — and they kindly agreed to let […]
As a guy who makes most of his money in US dollars, but lives in Canada, the high value of the loonie (Canadian dollar) is killing me. It’s at a 30-year high today, according to this report in The Globe and Mail. One of the reasons for my switch to a cross-border Penguin Canada / […]
Check it out! (Craig Rintoul of BookBits produced this.) The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
I spent a wonderful day today at A.Y. Jackson Secondary School in North York (part of Toronto), as the guest author for the “Jackson Reads” celebration. I did events all day long: an assembly for all the grade-10 students in the morning; lunch (Swiss Chalet chicken!) with the faculty; and two afternoon sessions, one with […]
I spent Monday night and all day Tuesday at the International Reading Association conference, which this year was in Toronto, a massive (11,000 people) convention of educators and librarians involved with reading and literacy. Monday night, May 14, 2007, Tor YA publisher Kathleen Doherty took Carolyn and me, Charles de Lint, graphic-novel author Tim Eldred, […]
