Lots of people have commented on the ways in which the TV series FlashForward has deviated from my novel of the same name upon which it is based. And, indeed, in some ways it has, but, to me, it’s still very much my story, and I’m pleased with the adaptation. For instance, last night (in […]
Fall-out, no doubt, from the wonderful launch party for the FlashForward TV series at McNally Robinson Polo Park in Winnipeg, and from my appearance promoting Wake at Thin Air: Winnipeg International Writers Festival: This week, Wake is the #5 bestselling hardcover fiction title at McNally Robinson’s Winnipeg stores, and FlashForward is the #3 bestselling mass-market […]
My novel FlashForward is set at CERN — the European Organization for Nuclear Research — and deals specifically with the Large Hadron Collider, so the breaking news — just this past hour — that a particle physicist working on the LHC at CERN has just been arrested as a possible terrorist with links to al-Qaeda […]
The British edition of FlashForward (pictured above), the novel by Robert J. Sawyer upon which the new TV series is based, is a bestseller at Amazon.co.uk, the British version of Amazon.com. It’s reached at least as high as sales rank #66 of all titles in the store (and, at this moment is #81). More: it […]
The TV series FlashForward, made by ABC Studios in Los Angeles, and based on Robert J. Sawyer‘s novel of the same name, has now sold to a staggering 100 territories worldwide. Recent additions: AXN (Central and Eastern Europe), AXN (Japan), Channel 1 (Russia), Fox International Channels (Russia), M-Net (Africa), Orbit Showtime (Middle East), ProSieben (Germany),TF1 […]
People keep asking me if they should read my novel FlashForward, or whether doing so will spoil the fun of watching the new TV series based on it. Rather than answer that myself, I’ll just repeat what FlashForward showrunner Marc Guggenheim says in the October 1, 2009, edition of The Age, a daily newspaper in […]
The British edition of FlashForward — my novel which is the basis of the TV series of the same name — published by Orion’s Gollancz imprint, is due to hit stores in the UK next week. My UK editor, Simon Spanton, just wrote to say they’ve already gone back to press for a second printing, […]
My novel FlashForward, the basis for the ABC TV series of the same name, is largely set at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. CERN now has a video interview with me, conducted by horror writer Stacey Cochran, and a print interview with me, conducted by CERN’s Antonella Del Rosso, on the CERN website. […]
The first episode, “No More Good Days,” is legally online for American and Canadian viewers. Americans can watch it at ABC, and Canadians at CTV. Info about the novel by Robert J. Sawyer that it’s based on his here. Enjoy! Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
On Saturday, September 26, 2009, I was interviewed on CBC Radio One’s pop-culture program Definitely Not the Opera, hosted by Sook-Yin Lee (above in 2007, with Robert J. Sawyer), in an interview recorded at Thin Air: Winnipeg International Writers’ Festival. On Monday, September 28, 2009, I was interviewed on CBC Radio One’s Q, hosted by […]
Blackstone Audiobooks has a wonderful unabridged reading of FlashForward, the Robert J. Sawyer novel that the hit ABC TV series is based on. The reader is Mark Deakins, and he does a fabulous job (I recently listened to the whole thing during my morning treadmilling sessions). You can download it from Audible.com or Amazon.com, or […]
Woohoo! On September 26, 2009, the Tor mass-market paperback of my novel FlashForward, basis for the ABC TV series of the same name, hit “Amazon.com Sales Rank: #164 in Books” — the highest I’ve ever been. (It’s currently #424). Not bad for a ten-year-old book! Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
I’m very briefly in the first scene of the third act of the first episode of FlashForward, the ABC TV series based on my novel of the same name. Remember the scene that ends with the guy watching the TVs through the store window with Joe Fiennes’s character, and the guy says, “It’s the whole […]
Here are screen captures of the credits for Robert J. Sawyer from the ABC TV series FlashForward, as it first aired on Thursday, September 24, 2009. The card “Based on the novel by Robert J. Sawyer” is the first card in the closing credits; the closing credits aired over scenes of upcoming epsisodes of FlashForward, […]
The Canadian Press has a video interview with Robert J. Sawyer about FlashForward, the TV sereis based on his novel of the same name, over at the website for The Globe and Mail: Canada’s National Newspaper. You can watch it online here. (Interview recorded at CTV‘s Queen Street facility in Toronto on August 11, 2009, […]
ABC did a squeeze-and-tease on the ending credits of FlashForward, the TV series based on my novel of the same name, devoting most of the screen to a promotion for future episodes of the series. But CTV’s /A\ in Canada ran the credits full screen. Here are screen captures from the streaming-video version of the […]
Yesterday’s National Post — a major Canadian daily newspaper available coast-to-coast — ran a great interview with Robert J. Sawyer about FlashForward (accompanied by a great photo!) You can read the article online here; the author is Mark Medley and the photographer is Peter J. Thompson. Below is how the article appeared in the printed […]
The overnight Nielsen TV ratings are in — and FlashForward, the TV series based on Robert J. Sawyer’s novel of the same name, is a hit! Detailed ratings info, courtesy of The Futon Critic. More info, from TV By The Numbers. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
Cool call-out above the fold on page 1 of the Ottawa Citizen, the largest-circulation newspaper in Canada’s capital city: Even nicer article inside by Tom Spears, the Citizen‘s science reporter inside. The article begins: “That there’s fiction in science fiction is pretty obvious. But Canadian author Rob Sawyer also wants you to remember the science […]
Today’s National Post — a major Canadian daily newspaper, available coast to coast — interviews me about tonight’s debut of the TV series FlashForward, based on my novel of the same name. The terrific photo above, taken by Post photographer Peter J. Thompson, accompanies the article, which was written by Mark Medley. FlashForward premieres tonight […]
Those darned timezones! Thin Air: Winnipeg International Writers Festival, in conjunction with CTV, is hosting a public viewing of the pilot episode of FlashForward, the TV series based on my novel, as it airs on Thursday, September 24, 2009. The event will be held at McNally Robinson Polo Park in Winnipeg, with me doing commentary […]
Click this text for full-size video at TIME.comIt doesn’t get much better than this! TIME.COM — the website of Time magazine — has just posted a 6-minute video profile of me and the science behind my novel FlashForward. (Indeed, right now, it’s promoted on top of the the main page of TIME.com, which is as […]
The list of broadcasters for FlashForward, the TV series based on my novel of the same name, just keeps growing. The show has now sold to broadcasters in 44 territories around the world including: Australia: Seven Canada: /A\ Cyprus: Fox International Finland: Nelonen France: TF1 Greece: Fox International Hong Kong: TVB Iceland: RUV India: Zee […]
Flashing back to April 1999, when my novel FlashForward received a starred review — denoting a book of exceptional merit — from Publishers Weekly, the US trade journal of the book-publishing industry. The review concluded: “This first-rate, philosophical journey, a terrific example of idea-driven SF, should have wide appeal.” The full review of the novel […]
The Dragon Page interviews me about the differences between writing for print and writing for television and film. It’s a good, meaty interview, and you can listen right here. We talk about the current adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife, about Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, about House, about The Simpsons, about the […]
Symmetry Breaking: Extra Dimensions of Particle Physics — a joint publication of Fermilab and SLAC — interviews Robert J. Sawyer about his novel FlashForward, and the novel’s setting at CERN. You can read the article right here. The interview is by Fermilab’s Katie Yurkewicz. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
FlashForward, the ABC TV series based on my novel of the same name, debuts (as I write this) in three days — on Thursday, September 24, 2009, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific and 7:00 p.m. Central. In the United States, it’s on ABC and in Canada it’s on CTV’s /A\ Channels. Things to watch […]
The back cover of the new TV-series tie-in editions of my 1999 novel FlashForward proudly proclaims “The Aurora Award-winning novel that started it all!” And indeed, FlashForward did win the 2000 Prix Aurora Award — Canada’s top honour in science fiction and fantasy — for “Best Long-Form Work in English” (yes, the award category names […]
AMCtv.com — the website of AMC (originally, “American Movie Classics”), a US cable channel — recently phoned me up and interviewed me about my novels FlashForward and Wake, and the TV adaptation of the former. You can read the interview, by Clayton Neuman, right here. (And, I must say, there is lots of other good […]
Not the TV series (although it undoubtedly is), but the book. Back in December 1999, Barnes and Noble released a list of its picks for the best science fiction and fantasy novels of that year: Robert J. Sawyer‘s FlashForward was listed third, with the following review: Robert J. Sawyer consistently makes intelligent, mind-blowing science fiction […]
