Scott Edelman — the editor of SciFi Weekly — has posted his photos from the Toronto World Horror Convention, including the one above of yours truly. (Scott may also have the only picture ever of book collector Dave Willoughby in which Dave is not smiling.) The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
In the early years, B.C., the daily comic strip by Johnny Hart, was pure genius — one of my absolute favourites. I also think it was what first introduced me to the notion of meta-fiction. Peter says to Curls, I think, one day: “I’ve discovered there’s a pump inside us that makes us go! I’m […]
:) Locus Online has upcoming author events listed, including a good summary of the book tour for Rollback, showing 18 events for me over the next six weeks. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Hey, PocketDirectory.com! Update your DataViewer software, for Pete’s sake. It’s been OVER TWO YEARS since you updated it (on February 23, 2005), and it really does need work; the Palm OS version has a truly crappy display and lousy interface. You’ve got some great text databases — like the Concise Encyclopaedia Britannica — available, but […]
Blog T.O. — the most popular blog about Toronto — raves today about Sailing Time’s Ocean by Terence M. Green, published under my Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint, calling it “a wonderful, wise and emotional novel by one of Toronto’s finest writers.” The full review is here.
ZtreeWin is a Windows clone of the old DOS Xtree program, fully updated to support modern operating systems and hardware. Way more powerful and easier to use than Windows Explorer; I use it all the time. I’ve been a registered user since 1997 — and the program is regularly updated, and all those updates for […]
This might be of interest for those in the Greater Toronto Area: Defenders of Gravity Thursday, April 12, 2007 to Friday, April 27, 2007 Defenders of Gravity is a new play written by Jeff Pearce and directed by Tom McHale. The play is a comedy-drama about a group of science fiction writers in New York […]
The Books section of today’s (Saturday, April 7, 2007) Globe and Mail: Canada’s National Newspaper devotes 2/5ths of a page (two of the five columns of text on the page, top to botoom) to a fabulous ad for my new book, Rollback. I shudder to think how much it cost — but I’m very, very […]
The nifty podcast Adventures in Scifi Publishing from San Diego has part one of a new interview with me online now. Of course, the interview focuses on Rollback. The interviewer is Shaun Farrell. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
… will be at The Write Book and Gift Shop in Honeoye Falls, New York (Finger Lakes region, near Rochester). Why there? ‘Cause the co-owner of the store is Nick DiChario, Hugo and World Fantasy Award finalist. The launch part will be held Sunday, April 15, at 3:00 p.m. Details are here. It’s a great […]
I’ll be an in-studio guest on CBC Radio One’s Here and Now this Monday, April 9, starting at 4:50 p.m. Eastern time, talking about Rollback. Here and Now is heard throughout southern Ontario CBC Radio One in Toronto is 99.1 FM; you can also listen online here.
This mailing went out today to all the people on my email list. If you’d like to be added directly to my email list — I only send out notices once or twice a year — drop me a note at: sawyer@sfwriter.com Hello, Robert J. Sawyer reader! I’m delighted to announce the release of my […]
Ellen Datlow has put up a selection of photos from the Toronto World Horror Convention on Flickr. Her whole album is here. This one, which is particularly nice of me, shows me and fellow Canadian writer Steve Erickson. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
The blog “My Book, The Movie” invites authors to daydream about who they’d like to see in a big-screen adaptation of one of their books. My musings on casting a Rollback movie are here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
The cover story in the current Publishers Weekly is about science fiction publishing, and it leads with a short interview with me, then goes into discussions of specific lines — and in that section, I’m quoted again discussing Phyllis Gotlieb’s Birthstones, the latest book under the Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint. A quote from the […]
Today’s edition — Wednesday, April 4, 2007 — of The Ottawa Citizen contains an op-ed piece by Robert J. Sawyer on atheism and the Modern Skeptical Movement, which the paper is calling “Unhealthy Skepticism” (my original title was “A Bright Idea for Atheists”). It takes up most of a page (page 17). The Ottawa Citizen […]
So says SciFiDimensions in their review of Robert J. Sawyer’s Rollback. Who am I to argue? The full review is here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer is the SciFi Essential Book for April 2007, in Tor’s cross-promotion program with SciFi Channel. Woohoo! (If you want to read a longer excerpt than the one on the SciFi Channel website, look here.) The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Tomorrow’s Ottawa Citzien — Wednesday, April 4, 2007 — will carry my op-ed piece, which I entitled “A Bright Idea for Atheists.” It’s an expanded version of comments I made at the grand opening of the Centre for Inquiry, Ontario last month. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
It’s showtime! Today — Tuesday, April 3, 2007 — is the official publication date for my 17th novel, Rollback. It’s now shipping from online retailers, and people have reported buying it in retail stores. On my website you’ll find the opening chapters, the dustjacket text, a book-club / reading group discussion guide, and much more. […]
Genrecon is a one-day convention on Saturday, May 12, 2007, devoted to genre fiction: SF, fantasy, mystery, horror, romance. And it’s free! It’s in Sarnia, Ontario, just a few hours’ drive from Toronto (and near Detroit). If you’ve never been to a con, and even if you have, come on out. Guest of honour is […]
The Slush God speaketh … to Rob! John Joseph Adams, assistant editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, interviews Robert J. Sawyer in the current issue of SciFi Weekly, the online magazine of the SciFi Channel. The interview is here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
The April 2007 edition of Ernest Lilley’s webzine SFRevu reviews Rollback, and features an interview with its author, Robert J. Sawyer. The review concludes by saying that Rollback is “a fascinating human drama, where joy and tragedy take human form, rather than apocalyptic ones. All in all, it’s a ‘skytop’ story, worth reading by genre […]
I may not have time to do a proper con report, what with Rollback officially being released in two days, so let me just say for the record that the Toronto World Horror Convention was one of the finest genre-fiction conventions ever in Toronto. Many also said it was the finest World Horror Convention ever, […]
After being on sale for just one day at the World Horror Convention, Rollback is now officially Bakka-Phoenix Books’ number-one bestselling hardcover title for the entire month of March. Woohoo! (Bakka-Phoenix is Toronto’s SF specialty bookstore, and the principal new-book dealer at the World Horror Convention now on in Toronto; they are also one of […]
“Are We Alone?” — the SETI Institute’s Weekly Science Radio Program (podcast) — features Robert J. Sawyer on his SETI related novel Rollback, in the episode “Array of Hope,” which went online on March 29, 2007. Host is Seth Shostak. The segment with me runs starts at 32:45, and goes to 41:13. The Robert J. […]
I do a newsletter for booksellers and media whenever I have a new book, and the latest issue — number 23 — is going in the mail starting today. You can get a PDF of it here, if you’re curious, and if you’d like to see back issues going back several years, they’re all here. […]
By special arrangement with H.B. Fenn, Tor’s Canadian distributor, my new novel Rollback will have its world debut tomorrow at the World Horror Convention in Toronto. Bakka-Phoenix Books will have the first copies on sale anywhere at their table in the dealers’ room. Carolyn just got back from the Fenn warehouse, where she picked up […]
Just got a phone call from a producer at The Gill Deacon Show. Everyone there was delighted with the interview I did yesterday on the suburbs, but after the show was in the can someone higher up the food chain at the CBC looked at the program and decided that it had too many men […]
Yes, I am a total geek. :) Months ago, I ordered a limited-edition 33-inch reproduction of the U.S.S. Enterprise from the original Star Trek TV series from Master Replicas, and it arrived today. I must say, it’s gorgeous. The attention to detail in making this model is very good, and the lighting effects are terrific: […]
