My eBay store — through which I sell autographed copies of my books — will be closed for June and July 2009, because I’ll be off in Saskatoon being writer-in-residence at the Canadian Light Source. I’ll be fulfilling orders received through Friday, May 29, 2009 — and then won’t be taking new orders until August. […]
My friend Stephanie Wilson in Ottawa sent me some lovely pictures she took at my launch party for Wake at the Clock Tower Pub on my birthday, Wednesday, April 29, 2009: A trademark over-the-top RJS reading. :) The wonderful folks at Perfect Books got me a birthday cake! Stephanie Wilson (pictured with me) gave me […]
There’s nothing harder than being a freelancer in today’s publishing climate, and having a new child just makes it even more difficult. Check out John Klima’s blog. (John is the editor of the Hugo Award-nominated fanzine Electric Velocipede and did the recent interview with me for the Tor.com website.) Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web […]
Carolyn and I will both be attending the NASA-sponsored Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers in Laramie, Wyoming, 14-21 July 2009. I was given early acceptance to the workshop (along with my friend Andy Duncan, a World Fantasy Award winner), but I’m very proud of Carolyn, who applied on her own, and was accepted on […]
Next up on the book tour for Wake: stops in Vancouver and Calgary. Come on out and say hello! Bookstore SigningWhite Dwarf Books3715 West 10th AvenueVancouver, British ColumbiaMonday, April 20, 2009, 7:00 p.m.http://www.deadwrite.com/wd.html Bookstore SigningSentry Box1835-10th Ave SWCalgary, AlbertaTuesday, April 21, 2009, 7:00 p.m.www.sentrybox.com The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Mysterious Galaxy, the wonderful science-fiction specialty bookstore in San Diego, California, shipped a carton of 24 copies of my Wake to Borderlands Books in San Francisco, where I was reading on Monday, April 13, and I autographed them all, so you’ll soon be able to get signed copies there, too. Yay! The Robert J. Sawyer […]
Robert J. Sawyer will be reading and signing Wake at Borderlands Books in San Francisco this Monday, April 13, 2009, at 7:00 p.m.: Borderlands Books866 Valencia StreetSan Francisco, CaliforniaMonday, April 13, 2009, 7:00 p.m. Other Wake book-tour events The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Check out John’s podcast “Serving Worlds” here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Today started at midnight, of course — and at 12:30 a.m., I was on the air, doing a live half-hour radio interview with Peter Anthony Holder, simultaneously on CJAD-AM in Montreal and CFRB-AM in Toronto. Just eight hours later, I was back on the air again, this time for a full-hour on The Mike Shinabery […]
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If you wrote to me, and haven’t heard back — I apologize! My Yahoo! Mail account has been eating some of my email; I don’t know why. (It hasn’t just been misfiling it as spam; it’s actually just not showing up in the account at all.) All email to my sfwriter.com domain gets mirrored to […]
I’m always delighted when one of my writing students has success, and I’m thrilled to announce that the wonderful Karleen Bradford has a new book! Karleen was my student for a week at the Banff Centre in September 2005. Dragonmaster is the third book in her celebrated “Taun Series” from HarperCollins’s young-adult HarperTrophy imprint. Way […]
My friend the great Canadian paleontologist Phil Currie is interviewed by the BBC today about Hesperonychus, the smallest meat-eating dinosaur yet to be found in North America. The story is here Phil’s a big SF fan, and is mentioned in Calculating God. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Old-timers in the science-fiction field hate the term “sci-fi,” considering it derogatory; they insist the preferred abbreviation is “SF.” Me, I gave up the fight when the US cable network devoted to the genre chose to call itself SciFi. (And, in fact, the hardcover of my Rollback was branded with the SciFi logo on the […]
My buddy Bruce Schneier — cryptographer, security specialist, incisive commentator — does a free monthly newsletter called Crypto-Gram. Well worth signing up for — which you can do right here. His books — including the most-recent one, Schneier on Security, shown above — are also always worth reading. (Oh, and he’ll be on 60 Minutes […]
Cracked magazine puts up a photo or image every day at 3:00 p.m. Eastern time, and invites people to write funny captions (or “Craptions”) for it. Today’s image is the Pioneer 10 plaque, and some of the craptions are hysterical. Check it out. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
My friend David Aronovitz has just listed a one-of-a-kind library of first editions on ABE.com: all the Hugo and Nebula Award winning novels, first editions, 95% of them signed or inscribed. Wow! See here. I very fondly remember visiting David’s house in Michigan in January 2004, and having a tour of his amazing collection of […]
And you know what? She deserves it. Her The Time Traveler’s Wife is one of the best science-fiction novels I’ve ever read. The New York Times has the scoop. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Man! Why couldn’t they have offered courses like this when I was in high school? In the 2009-2010 academic year, a teacher named David Rice at North Park Collegiate in Brantford, Ontario, is offering a “Studies in Literature” course on science fiction. The class will do two core novels — the Hugo Award-winning Hominids by […]
My dear friend Hugo winner Jeanne Robinson is recovering from surgery. Husband Spider has the scoop here. Spider ends with, “And God bless Tommy Douglas, who created Canada’s socialized medicine.” Amen to that, brother. Amen. And best wishes to Jeanne! The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Nice checks from my agent today for royalties from Audible.com and my Spanish publisher Ediciones B, plus the Korean advance for End of an Era. W00T! The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Hee hee hee. See Cracked.com. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Check it out right here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
CTV is the parent corporation of Space (Canada’s science-fiction specialty channel) and Discovery Channel Canada. The are predicting a $100 million loss from their broadcast TV operations this year. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Yeah, yeah, we all know Rob’s into big government :) so feel free to tune this out, but here’s a guy who just got a $6,000 phone bill for using his iPhone in Mexico. And, yeah, sure, we can all smugly argue that this particular guy should have known better — but stories like this […]
They broke up today. Steve Page, the lead singer, has left the band “to pursue a solo career.” The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
OMG, if you like 1950s and 1960s SF movies and TV shows as much as I do, you have to run and buy The Saucer Fleet by Jack Hagerty and Jon Rogers. It’s a painstaking, loving, profusely illustrated tribute to the great screen flying saucers of SF: the C57-D from Forbidden Planet, the Jupiter 2 […]
There’s a mini writing retreat going on at Chez Sawyer right now, and it’s all about sequels. Hayden Trenholm is here, visiting from Ottawa, and he’s working on his laptop at my kitchen table, sprinting towards the end of his revisions on Steel Whispers, the terrific sequel to his hard-boiled SF novel Defining Diana from […]
Over on Facebook, there’s a meme going around about posting “25 Random Things” about yourself, and tagging 25 other people to do the same. I didn’t tag anyone else, but here’s the list I posted today: 1. I am, by birth, a dual US-Canadian citizen. 2. My childhood imaginary friend wasn’t a person or an […]
An interesting shift over the last little while at Locus Online. Its subtitle has always been “The Website of The Magazine of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Field,” but that used to be best read as “The Website of The Magazine of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Field” — that is, the site was updated […]
