I haven’t seen it yet, but in theory the DAW anthology Slipstreams edited by Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers was issued earlier this month, containing my short story “Biding Time” — the second Alex Lomax detective story. (Alex Lomax is the detective in my current Hugo Award-finalist “Identity Theft”.)
In a comment to this posting on my blog, Lis Riba provides this link to a photo on LiveJournal of a poster behind the registration desk on site at ToBeContinued, going on right now in Illinois (emphasis added): To Be Continued 5Changes Due to cancellations and space issues the following items and people will not […]
In case anyone was wondering: 2001: A Space Odyssey Born Free The Candidate Casablanca Dr. Strangelove Judgment at Nuremberg Planet of the Apes (1968) Quatermass and the Pit WarGames Quatermass and the Pit was originally released in North America as Five Million Years to Earth … The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Here’s what you’ll hear in the first hour of this week’s Definitely NOT The Opera, on CBC Radio One (1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., Saturday, May 13 (listen online) — I’m part of the show: What exactly makes a geek? Do you just have to be smart? Wear glasses? Like science? We’ll find out when […]
I’m a big fan of the “Weekend Update” segment on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, and I’ve got to say the current anchor team of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler is absolutely marvelous — the best in years: funny, pointed, with fabulous chemistry. Check out samples of their news reports (these from the March 11, 2006, […]
A bunch of good things: I recently bought a couple of the wonderful die-cast Product Enterprises vehicles from Gerry Anderson’s old Supermarionation TV series; these are tough to find outside the UK. I got Fireball XL5 (above) and Stingray at Toronto’s Silver Snail comic-book shop, and just scored a Supercar (colour version) and an Eagle […]
So now the ToBeCONtinued website says this: “Due to cancelations Aaron Douglas, Robert Sawyer, and Weta will not be at the convention. Causing us to scale back our program somewhat.” Again, WTF? I did NOT cancel. Oh, and look here: an apology! What’s that? You don’t see it? Well, you must be using a screen […]
Well, it’s probably time for some good news. I’ve recently done a couple of movie-option deals I’m very pleased about; both deals were negotiated by Eli Kirschner of Created By, my Hollywood agents, although as it happens both are with Toronto companies. The first is an option on my most-recent novel, Mindscan, with Scott Calbeck, […]
Big-name Chicago fan Steven H. Silver posted the following in my Yahoo! Groups newsgroup. I replied there, but I thought I should also post my reply here. Steven said: Many people in Chicago fandom have announced their plans to avoid the con this weekend, partly due to the con’s treatment of Rob. Many others weren’t […]
Just to be clear, the reason I’m so upset about Bob Palmer’s lie about my ability to travel to the States is that my livelihood depends on me being able to routinely do that, and if this unfounded story gets around that I couldn’t make it to an American con because I’m supposedly not allowed […]
I’ll be a guest on CBC Radio One’s Definitely Not the Opera, hosted by Sook-Yin Lee (above), this Saturday afternoon, May 13, 2006. The show airs from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in all time zones, except in Newfoundland, where it’s half an hour later. At the moment they think I’ll be in the first […]
Here’s the story of why I’m not going to be at ToBeCONtinued this weekend as Author Guest of Honor, and why I am livid at the convention’s chair, Bob Palmer. Palmer wouldn’t let me buy my own plane tickets, and postponed buying them for me until — well, until forever. The con starts in less […]
More on this later, but I wanted to get the word out. I won’t be at ToBeCONtinued this weekend; the con never got around to booking tickets for me, despite my repeated reminders.
In theory, 72 hours from now I should be boarding a plane, and heading to Chicago for the convention ToBeCONtinued, at which I am supposed to be Author Guest of Honor. I say “in theory” because the convention was supposed to book my airline tickets, and, despite numerous reminders on my part, no tickets have […]
As I discussed in this entry, the Locus paperback bestsellers’ list published in the May 2006 issue incorrectly listed my Mindscan as being in its first month on the list; this is in fact its second consecutive month on the list — quite a rare achievement, especially for an SF novel. Locus Online has corrected […]
My brother Alan is a strategy consultant for IBM Global Business Services, specializing in digital media and the Media and Entertainment industry. He has his own blog, called Alan Sawyer’s Media Views. Check it out!
On Tuesday of last week, I got a call from my speakers’ bureau, asking me if I could give a talk two days hence in New York for a major technology company that was flying in its top 25 tech people from its offices worldwide for a meeting. Of course, I said yes. I gave […]
As of today, I have no pending deadlines, no articles due, and no short-story commitments, plus I’ve wrapped up all revisions on my next novel, Rollback, which is coming out in April 2007. It’s my intention to not take on other side projects for the foreseeable future; I just want to concentrate on my next […]
Well, my novella “Identity Theft” didn’t win the Nebula on the weekend — the trophy went to Kelly Link for her “Magic for Beginners.” But “Identity Theft” is still eligible for the Hugos being given later this year. :) The best-novel Nebula went to Joe Haldeman’s Camouflage, which, like several previous Nebula winning novels, including […]
Today’s the day that the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America are giving out the Nebula Awards, and my “Identity Theft” is a finalist in the best-novella category. All the nominees were invited to submit short essays about their stories and brief biographies, which will appear in the issue of the SFWA Bulletin that […]
So, Mike Resnick asked me to do an essay for Nebula Awards Showcase 2007, which will be the next volume in SFWA’s annual series of anthologies. It’s been a while since I did such an essay (I had one in the volume that came out in 1994), and so I thought I should just get […]
Well, it probably only matters to me, but I feel compelled to note that the SF trade journal Locus has incorrectly listed my novel Mindscan‘s standing on the bestsellers’ list published in that magazine’s just-released May issue (and online on the Locus website since last Thursday, April 27, 2006). This month’s Locus paperbacks bestsellers’ list […]
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve accepted an invitation to be Guest of Honor at RavenCon 2007 in Richmond, Virginia. The dates are April 27-29, 2007 — which means I’ll be in Virginia on my birthday. That’s very appropriate, since, on my actual birth day, back in 1960, I started off in Virginia (my mother’s […]
My books are often taught in schools. For today’s Monday Spotlight, highlighting one of the 500+ documents on my website, I’m featuring this page, which gathers quotes from teachers and students who’ve used my books in the classroom, and links to a PDF brochure that discusses such use of my books in more detail.
On Saturday afternoon, I went to see United 93. There were a total of 15 people in the theatre — an ominous sign during opening weekend. I don’t know if the small turnout was related to the beautiful weather (I happened to be in Calgary that day), or a general reluctance on the part of […]
That’s the headline on a story that came out today on SciFi Wire, the news service of the SciFi Channel. There full text of the story is here.
The latest progress report for L.A. Con IV (the Los Angeles Worldcon) will be going out shortly. SAVE THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE! You’ll need the Personal Identification Number from the mailing label in order to vote for the Hugos online. (U.S. progress reports don’t go in envelopes, but the ones to Canada do — which means […]
Aurora Award nominating is now over, but Dennis Mullin has at last posted a “provisional” list of potentially eligible works.
Penguin Canada has just published The Penguin Dictionary of Popular Canadian Quotations, edited by John Robert Colombo. To my absolute delight, 23 quotations from my writings appear in the book, on topics such as “Privacy,” “Humanity,” “Immortality,” “Gods,” “The Moon,” “Society,” and, of course, “Science Fiction.” (Not that anyone’s counting, but Margaret Atwood is only […]
Today, Monday, April 24, 2006, I finished final revisions on my seventeenth novel, Rollback. I started the book on Monday, May 16, 2005 (just shy of one year ago), and did a total of six drafts. Unusually for me, the book got shorter as time went on — I cut 10,000 words while preparing the […]
