My brother and I are both amused by the following, which Google displayed today when he searched on “Sawyer” and “ICE 2007”: Robert J. SawyerI’ll be keynote speaker at the ICE 2007 conference being held in Toronto on … got this gig just because my broski, Alan Sawyer, is one of the organizers. …www.sfwriter.com/2007/01/rob-on-ice.html – […]
How many high-school reunions can boast that they’ll have not one but two Hugo Award-winners present? Well, this one can — and it’s now just two months away. Mike Glicksohn, who won the best-fanzine Hugo in 1973, and Robert J. Sawyer, who won the best-novel Hugo in 2003, are both attending the 50th-anniversary reunion for […]
Score! I’ve been wanting one of these hero-prop replica Probe scanners from the 1972 TV series Search for a long while, but kept getting outbid on eBay. But I landed one tonight — the very last one the maker says he’s going to produce. Woohoo! The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Today was spent doing interviews: a full hour by phone with a radio station in Alamogordo, New Mexico, followed by five hours (!) face-to-face with a magazine journalist in my home — more about that one soon. :) And tomorrow, I’m off to the headquarters of Space: The Imagination Station to record an interview about […]
The nominating ballot for the 2007 Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards (“the Auroras”) is now available here. I have nothing particular of my own worth considering this year, but certainly Robert Charles Wilson‘s remarkable novella Julian: A Christmas Story from PS Publishing and Karina Sumner-Smith‘s Nebula-nominated “An End to All Things” from the DAW […]
Mark R. Kelly, the incredibly hard-working editor of Locus Online, has listed the tour dates for Rollback on Locus Online‘s “Author Appearances” page. Newly added: events in Winnipeg, Manitoba (on Thursday 26 April at McNally Robinson in Grant Park, at 7:00 p.m. — actually, Mark’s missing this one), Alexandria, Virginia (on on Sunday 22 April), […]
I was going to write a long blog entry about how lame, disappointing, and just downright dull and pathetic the “Mavel Super Heroes Science Exhibition” currently on at the Ontario Science Centre (and traveling to other museums) is, but I don’t have time, so this will have to do. Save your money. I have seen […]
Writer Nick Matthews took a bunch of pictures, which you can find here. Left to right in the group shot: Tony PiRobert J. SawyerJames Alan GardnerStephen KotowychMike RimarJim C. Hines I’m a judge; the others are all Canadian winners of the contest.
Tomorrow (Friday) at 8:00 p.m. in the Reflections room at AD ASTRA, Toronto’s science-fiction convention: Come celebrate the launch of Phyllis Gotlieb’s latest novel BIRTHSTONES, published by Robert J. Sawyer Books. Phyllis’s career is now in its fifth decade, and she’s without doubt the founding mother of Canadian SF. Join Phyllis and her editor for […]
Carolyn and I are hustling to get ready for the arrival of seven — count ’em, seven! — house guests tomorrow, who are all staying with us for Ad Astra, the Toronto SF convention. What did Colonel Taylor say? Oh, yeah: “It’s a madhouse! A madhouse!” :) The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Karl Schroeder and I read today over lunch at the Runnymede Public Library in Toronto. Lou Sytsma, who is active on my Yahoo! Groups newsgroup, has posted some great pictures from the readings here (hover your mouse over each picture to read the caption Lou has written). Thanks for the great pictures, Lou! As Lou […]
If you haven’t done your 2007 Hugo nominating ballot yet, do so! Deadline is this weekend. Among those eligible for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer this year is my friend Karina Sumner-Smith, who lives here in Toronto. You want proof that she’s worthy of the Best New Writer award? It’s just […]
… this time also including lots from the literary-themed fashion show that concluded the evening. Check them out. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
… this very Wednesday, February 28, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., at the Runnymede Public Library in Toronto, 2178 Bloor Street West (Runnymede & Bloor). Admission is free. This “Literary Lunch” is the final official event of Keep Toronto Reading month. I believe Karl will be reading from Sun of Suns; I haven’t decided […]
All fourteen of the books I’ve had published by Tor are still in print. You can see Tor’s own online catalog them here, including excerpts from most of them. (And the main Tor web site page about me is here.) The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
I was already looking forward to my trip to Richmond, Virginia, in April to be Guest of Honor at RavenCon, but now I’m looking forward to it even more. Congratulations, Virginia! You’ve done a wonderful thing. Virginia Apologizes for Role in Slavery The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Toronto’s annual science-fiction convention, Ad Astra, is coming up in six days (March 2-4, 2007). I’ll be there, doing a bunch of programming, reading a chapter with naked people in it from Rollback, launching Phyllis Gotlieb’s new novel Birthstones (which I edited), and just hangin’ out and having fun. Come on out! It should be […]
One of my New Year’s resolutions was to try to slow down the pace of my life a bit. But I see I have 14 flights scheduled in the next 90 days — gak! The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Cleaning my home today, I stumbled across Volume One, Number One, of Unearth: The Magazine of Science Fiction Discoveries, dated Winter 1977 — almost 30 years ago. This magazine, which was edited by John M. Landsberg and Jonathan Ostrowsky-Lantz was, according to the editorial, “a market solely for writers who had not yet made a […]
The student newspaper at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario, where I spoke recently, has this to say about my visit, in a very nice article by Ashley Houghton. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
The Calgary Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada is hosting Robert J. Sawyer for the evening of Thursday, March 15, 2007, for the annual Peter Sim Lecture. Astronomy and Science Fiction Exploring strange new worlds happens as often at a writer’s keyboard as it does at an astronomer’s eyepiece. From exploring the worlds […]
So, on February 6, I went to the local Canadian passport office, to renew my Canadian passport; the office is upstairs in a mall near my home. I noticed as I entered the office that there was a sign on the outside wall of the office advertising a place in mall that took passport photos. […]
I do lots of keynotes about science, technology, and the future (in fact, I’m off to do one today) — and Speakers’ Spotlight, the speakers’ bureau I work with, has just revamped its web page about me. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
* Michael Bishop* Kathleen Ann Goonan* Joe Haldeman* Jack McDevitt* Mike Resnick* Robert J. Sawyer Not too shabby, eh? :) We’ll all be at the 20th anniversary Oasis in Orlando, Florida, May 25-27, 2007. The con sent me my etickets for the fligths today, so — woohoo! (All of us are returning Guests of Honor […]
… are on the blog of Quill and Quire, the Canadian publishing trade journal (some of the photos are by Carolyn Clink!). Check them out! (To get the joke caption of the final photo, you have to have read Stephen Henighan’s column in Geist, which has made quite a stir. The Giller is Canada’s top […]
I’m a judge for the Writers of the Future contest, and the winners for the fourth quarter of 2006 have just been announced: 1. Andrea Kail from New York, NY2. Edward Sevcik from Austin, TX3. John Burridge from Eugene, OR I’ve only today learned the names of the authors, since we don’t see them when […]
Here are a few photos from Thursday night’s Book Lover’s Ball in Toronto Robert J. Sawyer and Carolyn Clink: Carolyn bought a new dress and new shoes for the occassion Robert J. Sawyer and Harold Fenn: Harold’s company, H.B. Fenn, distributes Tor Books in Canada; I owe much of the success I’ve had to this […]
I’m on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Lifeboat Foundation, which is a group dedicated to safeguarding humanity. They’ve just done up a beautiful web page featuring my article AI and Sci-FI: My, Oh, My!. Check it out! :)
The itinerary is set for my book tour for Rollback, my new novel. I’ll be in seventeen cities in April and May: Albany, NYCalgary, ABCamp Hill, PADenver, COEdmonton, ABHoneoye Falls, NYKitchener, ONLondon, ONMilford, NHOshawa, ONSarnia, ONSaskatoon, SKRichmond, VAToronto, ONVancouver, BCWashington, DCWoodbridge, ON Here are the events: Sat 14 Apr 2007: * Bakka Phoenix Books, 697 […]
Science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer has just received the Toronto Public Library Celebrates Reading Award. Established in 2001, this is one of Canada’s top book-related honours. The award, which includes a cash prize of $2,500 and a crystal sculpture, was presented in front of a sold-out audience of 640 at the second annual Book Lover’s […]
