Got a nice bit of fan mail just now, in response to the news about the series order for Flash Forward. He says: Here’s hoping someone will read the wonderful novel Wake and turn it into a movie as well. I enjoyed it immensely and can hardly stand waiting for its sequels. Amazing and interesting […]
For eleven years now, Mike Shinabery, a radio broadcaster and journalist in Alamogordo, New Mexico, has been doing lengthy, meaty radio interviews with me — Mike does his research, knows his science, and is himself an SF fan. Last month, on April 9, 2009, he had me on his morning show on KSRY AM 1230 […]
I’ll be the guest for half an hour this Tuesday night, May 12, 2009, on The Howard Gluss Radio Show, starting at 11:00 p.m. Eastern time (8:00 p.m. Pacific), talking about my novel Wake. The show is based in Los Angeles, but you can listen online anywhere in the world. :) More info is here, […]
The Toronto Star — Canada’s largest circulation newspaper — has an article about Robert J. Sawyer and his novel Wake in the Sunday, May 10, 2009, edition; the article is by Philip K. Dick Award-finalist Minister Faust. Faust says, in part: Best known as the author of the Hugo Award-winning Hominids, Sawyer is Canada’s answer […]
On Thursday, May 7, I was in at Penguin Group (Canada)’s offices for some meetings, and received the wonderful news from Don Robinson, Vice President of Sales, that just twenty-three days after the Canadian release of Wake, Penguin Canada is going back to press for a second hardcover printing. W00t! Of course, Penguin has done […]
On Wednesday, May 6, 2009, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer gave an invited 90-minute talk at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience [pictured] at the University of Pennsylvania (“Penn”). Sawyer was the first science-fiction writer ever invited to speak at the Center. Sawyer’s talk delved into the cognitive science, neuroscience, and other […]
Penguin Group (Canada) has produced a nifty 70-second book trailer for Robert J. Sawyer’s novel Wake. You can watch the trailer here on YouTube, and learn more about the novel on Rob’s website and at Penguin’s new WakeWatchWonder.com site. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Wake is set in Kitcener-Waterloo, Ontario, and now you can get signed copies there, either at Words Worth Books in Waterloo, or the Chapters superstore on Gateway Blvd. in Kitchener, as well as the Chapters at the north end of Waterloo. And don’t forget that I’m coming to Waterloo soon for a public event: Reading […]
There was a wonderful book-launch party for Wake in my home town of Ottawa, Ontario, on April 29, 2009, which happened to be my birthday. Hayden and Liz Trenholm took these pictures of the event, which was held at the Clock Tower Pub: As I blow out the candles on my birthday cake, Pat Cavan […]
Penguin Group (Canada) has created a gorgeous, Flash-content rich web site to promote my WWW trilogy (the novel Wake, and its forthcoming sequels, Watch and Wonder). Check out WakeWatchWonder.com for a nifty book trailer, Wake wallpapers, FAQs, and much more. It’s a work-in-progress — Penguin will be tweaking, expanding, and updating the site continously — […]
Sacramento News & Review reviews Wake: Sawyer’s compassionate writing lets us avoid the trap of assuming monstrosity in difference. As Caitlin and the consciousness of the Web learn to communicate, readers can easily begin to question what it is that makes us human. Like all great science fiction, Sawyer’s work ultimately stirs up philosophical questions, […]
Above: Chris Szego and Aurora Simmons from Bakka-Phoenix Books selling copies of Wake at the launch. Above: Robert J. Sawyer reading from Wake. Above: Mark Askwith (producer for Space: The Imagination Station), who interviewed Rob on stage at the launch; Lesley Livingston, author of the YA fantasy novel Wonderous Strange from HarperCollins; and Robert J. […]
Quill Blog — the blog of the Canadian publishing trade journal Quill & Quire — has some photos of the Toronto launch for my new novel Wake on Thursday, April 30, 2009 at the pub Dominion on Queen. Have a look. (In the article, Quill Blog calls me, “Robert J. Sawyer — a.k.a. the Canadian […]
Planet S is the biweekly arts-and-entertainment newspaper in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and I was on the cover of the April 9, 2009, issue, and the cover story was about me. That story by Ashleigh Mattern, headlined, “Light Speed, Mr. Sawyer — Engage!,” is online here. (The first word in the article refers to Wanuskewin Heritage Park, […]
New Scientist just uploaded eight short articles about “The Unknown Internet,” including this one entitled “Could the net become self-aware?,” which speaks to the themes of my novel Wake. In the article on self-awareness, Ben Goertzel, who appears in the acknowledgments of Wake, says, “The internet behaves a fair bit like a mind. It might […]
Charles Mohapel — the great Canadian photographer of all things science fiction — came out to my event for Wake at Parragraphe Bookstore in Montreal on Tuesday, April 28, 2009, and took some wonderful pictures, including the ones below. Many thanks, Charles! Photographs copyright 2009 by Charles Mohapel. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Roundup of reviews to date of the Robert J. Sawyer novel Wake (or WWW:Wake, as the title is styled on the US dustjacket): “Extremely well written and complex making Tron look like pre-school, this is a terrific first tale in what looks like will be a great trilogy.” —Alternative-Worlds.com “Wake provides a refreshing intersect of […]
Minister Faust — one of Canada’s leading SF writers (author of Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad from Del Rey), and a renowned Edmonton radio personality — interviews Robert J. Sawyer about Rob’s new novel Wake. You can listen to the 14-minute interview, which was first heard on Edmonton’s CJSR Radio on April 24, […]
Hardcore Nerdity discusses the Toronto launch of Robert J. Sawyer’s Wake. Pictured: Mark Askwith, Robert J. Sawyer The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Robert J. Sawyer is giving an invited talk entitled “Webmind: When the Web Wakes Up” at the at the University of Pennsylvania‘s Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, 3810 Walnut Street in Philadelphia, this Wednesday, May 6, 2009, from noon to 1:15 p.m. The talk deals with some of the science behind Sawyer’s current novel, Wake. The […]
A nice review on the CA Reviews blog of my Wake, which says in part: While this is clearly a novel of big ideas, the author never neglects the individual characters. Caitlin, her parents, Dr. Kuroda, and even the kids at school all seem very realistic. Allowing us to follow Caitlin’s story from her point […]
Canada’s wonderful bookstore chain McNally Robinson has been a great supporter of my work over the years, and I’ve become friends with many of their booksellers (including Kent Pollard and Ian Goodwillie in Saskatoon, and Chadwick Ginther in Winnipeg). In honour of the recent release of my 18th novel Wake, McNally Robinson has named me […]
The terrific online SF magazine SciFi Dimensions has a meaty podcast interview with Robert J. Sawyer right here. Among other things, we talk about my new novel Wake, the forthcoming Flash Forward TV series, and author Nick DiChario, whom I publish under my Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
The Ottawa Citizen — the largest circulation newspaper in Canada’s capital city — has not one but two articles about Wake today: Future Looks Bright to Sci-Fi Writer Sawyer Web and Brain Merge in Profound Vision of Future Woohoo! The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Montreal Reading!Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore2220 McGill College AvenueMontreal, QuebecTuesday, April 28, 2009, 6:30 p.m.paragraphbooks.com Ottawa Book Launch Party!The Clock Tower Brew Pub575 Bank StreetOttawa, OntarioWednesday, April 29, 2009, 7:30 p.m. (not 7:00 p.m., as previously announced)Hosted by Perfect Booksclocktower.caperfectbooks.ca/index.html Toronto Book Launch Party!Dominion on Queen (pub)500 Queen Street EastToronto, OntarioThursday, April 30, 2009, 7:00 p.m.Hosted by […]
Right here. And all my Audible audiobooks are here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Photos from the book tour stops in Vancouver (at White Dwarf) and Calgary (at Sentry Box: A packed house at White Dwarf. Photo by kc dyer. Part of the crowd at Sentry Box. Calgary photos by Kirstin Morrell. The shirt I’m wearing depicts the famous S. Harris cartoon that figures a couple of times in […]
And a very nice piece it is, too. You can read it here (as reprinted in The Ottawa Citizen). (The Edmonton Journal is the major daily newspaper in the capital city of the province of Alberta.) The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Bookspot Central reviews Wake, saying in part: A very entertaining read. Sawyer has written a pretty fast paced novel with WWW: Wake. Deceptively so in fact. Although it does not slow the story down he has packed the text with references to developments in information technology, mathematics, physics, linguistics and a number of other fields. […]
Bitten By Books reviews Wake today: WWW: Wake provides a refreshing intersect of science and real life, of consciousness and perception, of imagination and potential. Sawyer puts the science back in science fiction and does it with panache rather than with a sledge hammer. You can read the whole review here. The Robert J. Sawyer […]
