… including the list of books David S. Goyer has the staff writers read (beside my novel FlashForward, of course!). See the article here. I visited the writers’ room for FlashForward earlier this month, but didn’t feel comfortable blogging about it — but you can read what David Goyer has to say about the room […]
Paul Levinson — himself a very fine SF writer, and the author of The Plot to Save Socrates — interviews me for 36 minutes on his podcast Light On Light Through about FlashForward. You can listen here. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
I reveal all in a short video interview with the CBC Book Club, which is doing my FlashForward this month. The interview is here. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
FlashForward, the TV series based on my novel of the same name, premieres one week from today in North America (at 8:00 p.m. / 7:00 p.m. Central). In the United States, it’s on ABC. In Canada, it’s on CTV’s /A\ series of channels. The pilot is fabulous. Pictured: actor Joseph Fiennes and author Robert J. […]
Yes — and in the best possible way! The debut episode of FlashForward — the ABC TV series based on my novel of the same name — airs Thursday, September 24, at 8:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. Central) on ABC. And the very next night — Friday, September 25, also at 8:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. Central), […]
My wonderful agent Ralph Vicinanza just sold Portuguese rights to FlashForward, bringing to 18 the number of languages my work has or will be appearing in: Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, English, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, and Spanish. w00t! (And le w00t! and el w00té! and …) Visit The Robert […]
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 […]
… is now available here. (The Book Club is doing my FlashForward this month.) Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
Reviews of the Aurora Award-winning novel FlashForward by Robert J. Sawyer, basis for the ABC TV series of the same name: “A thoroughly entertaining novel. The characters and story keep you turning the pages to see how this future turns out.” — CNN “A creative, soul-searching exploration of fate, free will, and the nature of the […]
Interview by Rob Salem in today’s edition of Canada’s largest-circulation newspaper; the online version is here. Says David, very kindly: We had an amazing time figuring out how to adapt it. I felt like I’d won the lottery of television writers. Awww. :) Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
Woohoo! In cooperation with ABC, Tor Books in the United States has produced terrific floor-display stands (sometimes called “dumps”) for the new mass-market edition of my novel FlashForward, which is the basis of the TV series premiering two weeks from today. Here are a couple of shots of the stand in a Barnes and Noble […]
The CBC — the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation — is podcasting Robert J. Sawyer‘s Hugo-nominated Rollback in 25 fifteen-minute installments read by Battlestar Galactica’s Alessandro Juliani: Rollback Podcasts And the CBC Book Club is featuring Sawyer’s Aurora Award-winning novel FlashForward this month: CBC Book Club Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
The list keeps growing: AXN (Spain, Portugal), Digiturk (Turkey), Fox International Channels (Greece, Cyprus), Nelonen (Finland), RUV (Iceland), SBS (Netherlands), TF1 (France), TV2 (Norway), Cuatro (Spain), RTE (Ireland), Five (UK). Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
CBC Radio One’s The Next Chapter, hosted by Shelagh Rogers, interviewed Robert J. Sawyer on Saturday, September 5, about his novel FlashForward, which is the CBC’s Book Club pick this month. You can download the interview here (48-minute MP3 file; Rob comes on at the 20 minute 50 seconds mark, and goes to the 32 […]
That’s title of the first of several short videos produced by the CBC in honour of the selection of my novel FlashForward as the CBC Book Club pick for September 2009. You can watch the video — and get some glimpses of my home — here. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
… including, of course, FlashForward, based on my novel of the same name. The article is here. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
Whether you want to get the new mass-market or trade paperback edition of my novel FlashForward — basis for the ABC TV series that premieres in 20 days — from Amazon or Barnes and Noble or Borders or McNally Robinson or Chapters or Books-A-Million or a nearby independent, you can easily order copies online through […]
My Aurora Award-winning novel FlashForward, basis for the upcoming ABC TV series of the same name, is the CBC’s Book Club pick for September 2009. Join the fun all month long here — regardless of where you live in the world. To help your along, here’s a Book Club discussion guide for FlashForward (spoiler warning […]
My Aurora Award-winning novel FlashForward has been continuously in print from Tor Books, New York, since it was first published in 1999. However, this week two new editions of the book come out to tie-in with the ABC TV series of the same name, which debuts on Thursday, September 24, 2009. The new cover, incorporating […]
Check out the promo for the TV series based on my novel FlashForward running in New York’s Times Square in this YouTube video courtesty of my friend Lorne Kates. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
Courtesy of my Hollywood agent Vince Gerardis of Created By, a view today down Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. How cool is that? Pictured: Giant billboard for FlashForward covering the side of a ten-story building. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
Canada’s National Post — a major daily newspaper — today reported on the pilot for FlashForward, saying this: Every so often, a new TV show comes along that’s so eye-filling, so visually startling and so emotionally gripping that it feels like a tectonic shift may be about to occur in the popular culture. ABC saved […]
Okay, admittedly it was the worst-kept secret in television (as David S. Goyer quipped today at San Diego Comic-Con), but it can now be officially announced that Dominic Monaghan, late (literally) of Lost, has joined the cast of FlashForward. See here. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
The July 24, 2009, edition of Entertainment Weekly devotes half a page to the FlashForward TV series. The article, entitled simply “FLASHFORWARD“, begins: Robert J. Sawyer’s 1999 novel of the same name inspired this drama about a global catastrophe … The article includes the picture below of series stars John Cho and Joseph Fiennes. FlashForward was […]
In 2000, my Italian editor, Sergio Fanucci of Solaria, asked me to write an introduction to the Italian edition of my novel FlashForward. Here’s what I had to say . . . The German philosopher Immanuel Kant claimed that the three fundamental problems of metaphysics are “Is there life after death?,” “Does God exist?,” and “Do we have […]
So says The Hollywood Reporter (and, of course, note that of all the ABC series they could choose to show a still from to illustrate this article, it’s Flashforward. Yes, we rock.) Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
It’s a nice little capsule review that in fact makes no mention of the TV show; rather, it’s a roundup of reviews of books that are being read by Boston-area book clubs, and says: “Flash Forward,” by Robert J. Sawyer. A science-fiction story that explores many of the questions of time travel and has well-developed […]
The Globe and Mail is reporting that CTV, Canada’s largest commercial television network, has bought Canadian rights to Flash Forward, the ABC TV series based on the novel of the same name by Robert J. Sawyer. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
The Globe and Mail: Canada’s National Newspaper has a list today by TV critic John Doyle of “10 shows I adore already,” his picks for the new TV season. Flash Forward, based on my novel of the same name, is on the list. Check it out. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
So says TV By The Numbers, which has the whole ABC fall schedule, as announced yesterday, here. THURSDAYS: 8:00 p.m.: “Flash Forward” 9:00 p.m.: “Grey’s Anatomy” 10:00 p.m.: “Private Practice” Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
