Nick DiChario, the author of A Small and Remarkable Life, which I published, is having a party — come one, come all: SPECIAL PUBLICATION EVENT Robert J. Sawyer Books Publication PartySaturday, September 9, 2006, 2 p.m. Q & A Session and a Celebration of Noted Rochester SF Authors Our own Nick DiChario, author of A […]
I got my 2,000 words by the end of the day. Dinner was here at our place: hot dogs, barbecue chicken, fried chicken, salad. Eight is a lot of people around our kitchen table, but miraculously nothing got spilled. Evening included watching stuff on my 50″ Sony Grand WEGA TV: the classic Star Trek episode […]
We’re all back from lunch at Montana’s, a roadhouse-style chain restaurant. It’s a cold, rainy day here in Toronto, and the disadvantage of having a penthouse with lots of floor-to-ceiling windows is that if it’s dreary outside, it can seem dreary inside. But I’ve put on a fire in the living room, and that’s cheered […]
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All went well. My personal goal was 2,000 words — and I got 2,189. Most everyone else met their goals, too. We went on mass to Swiss Chalet (Canadian barbecue chicken franchise) for lunch; dinner was pizza (from Pizza Nova, for those who know Toronto pizza chains). Lots of great work done, lots of great […]
For a limited time, the Analog website has the first seven chapters of my next novel Rollback online. You can read them here. Analog is serializing Rollback in four parts. At the end of the online sample, it says that the story will be concluded in the next issue; that’s wrong — it runs over […]
… for the Mississauga Write-off. Much food has already been eaten (“it’s like locusts,” said Carolyn); we’ve clearly underestimated how much we’ll need. We’d intended to go to bed earlier, but the conversation was too good. :) Now, at 1:30 p.m., we’re calling it a night. Tomorrow, the writing begins!
… by design. Two and half years ago, I started attending the twice-yearly “Write-Off” weekends hosted by Danita Maslan (aka Danita Maslankowski) for Calgary’s Imaginative Fiction Writers’ Association (IFWA). A bunch of writers — 15 or 20 — hole up for a weekend in the rec center at Danita’s townhouse complex, bringing laptops along, and […]
A papal summit will debate the Catholic church’s stance on evolution, says New Scientist.
I’ve put four 4.1-megapixel pictures of the latest prototype of the MasterReplica’s 33-inch Enterprise model from Classic Star Trek up on my website, for those who, like me, are thinking of getting one. Only 2,000 are being made, and they cost US$1,199 each (or more, with autographs). The photos are: here, here, here, and here. […]
… at L.A. Con IV, the Worldcon in Los Angeles: Me in a Star Trek uniform Carolyn in the Batmobile
Boarding the Enterprise, the 40th-anniversary Classic Star Trek essay collection edited by David Gerrold and me, is now out from BenBella Books; I’ve now seen it for sale in stores, and it was flying off the BenBella dealers’ table at the L.A. Worldcon. You can read my introduction to the book here. And there’s a […]
A message that just showed up in my inbox: Dear Robert, I expect you get asked by a lot of people to finish their story…. Mine really isn’t such a sloppy idea… I really just am too busy and thought you might help?? That’s as far as I read. Sheesh! I’m rather busy myself, ass-face. […]
Volume 22 of L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future is now out. This volume contains writing essays by Hubbard, Orson Scott Card, and myself, plus one on art by Bob Eggleton; mine is called “Eight Things New Writers Need to Know.” But the meat of the volume is the award-winning stories from the […]
Calgary World Fantasy ALL-U-CAN-EAT BBQ! Saturday September 16th, 12 – 4 PMPearce Estate Park (east downtown) $10 gets you all the burgers and pop you can handle + an assortment of amusements: Music, nature walks, games and much, much more. Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer will lead a discussion on how near-future technology can save […]
Happened to come across a few of the stats for the 1996 Hugos — the ones given ten years ago, at the exact same venue (the Anaheim Convention Center) as this year’s Hugos; the ones ten years ago were given at L.A. Con III. Back then, the nominees were Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age (which […]
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Sunday, August 27, was the final day of L.A. Con IV, the World Science Fiction Convention in Los Angeles. I started off with a meeting with Scott Danielson from SFF Audio, then did my autographing, which was well attended, and my reading, which was not (just four people — the readings venue was hidden off […]
Saturday, August 26, was the fourth day of the 2006 World Science Fiction Convention in Los Angeles. Carolyn went off to Disneyland with friend Stella Luuk, but for me the day started with a wonderful two-hour lunch with Eric Greene, who wrote one of my favorite nonfiction books, Planet of the Apes as American Myth. […]
Lots of interesting stuff in the Hugo nominating stats. For starters, I’ve suggested to my friend Robert Charles Wilson that he send a thank-you note to Neil Gaiman, ’cause it turns out Gaiman withdrew Anansi Boys from Hugo consideration (presumably because, although flattered by the nomination, with two Hugos already and a superstar career, he […]
… and others. My “Identity Theft” did not win in the best novella category … but I knew I didn’t have a chance, and was totally calm all evening. It was a great ceremony, and my posse (Carolyn, Kirstin Morrell, Barbara Geiger, and Elisabeth Hegerat) and I had front-row seats at the ceremony. I’m totally, […]
Yesterday (Friday) was very busy, but very enjoyable. It started with an excellent 10:00 a.m. panel [note to self: stop agreeing to do 10:00 a.m. panels] on “Giving Good Interview,” moderated by the wonderful Evo Terra from the Slice of Sci-Fi podcast. After, I was approached by the producer of Escape Pod, who actually had […]
The con began bright and early for me, with a 10:00 a.m. panel called, “No, Really, That Makes Sense!” SF writers tried to come up with rational and entertaining explanations for various things that at first glance seem illogical in SF movies, TV shows, and books. Despite valiant moderating by Dr. Isaac Szpindel, it didn’t […]
Lunch with Amy Sisson and her husband, NASA scientist Paul Abell. Sat with Mike Moscoe at the Analog/Asimov’s table, hustling subscriptions, then at the Edge Press table, helping to sell J. Brian Clarke’s The Alphanauts, for which I did the introduction. Moderated a very lively and entertaining panel entitled “You Are Responsible For Your Own […]
Carolyn and I have been in Los Angeles since Sunday. Yesterday, we fought the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad traffic in L.A. to visit the terrific store of Barry R. Levin, the world’s leading rare-SF dealer, then had a a very productive lunch with my film agents, Vince Gerardis and Eli Kirschner, then headed […]
Carolyn and I spent from Thursday afternoon until this morning (Sunday) in San Diego at the 22nd annual L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers and Illustrators of the Future awards weekend (I’m one of the judges for the writing contest). As always, it was a fabulous event, and we had a great time. A few pictures: Todd […]
… about the Hugo nomination for “Identity Theft.” You can listen here.
My buddy Mark Leslie is auctioning off the right to be murdered in his online serial, in order to raise funds for literacy. Details are here.
DAW author Edward Willett “in praise of science-fiction writing,” in this article in the Regina Leader-Post.
When the chips are down (kind of a pun in this context …), SF fandom always comes through: there will indeed be an Internet lounge at Worldcon this year. Details
