Robert J. Sawyer

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I sent this note directly to the wonderful Liana Kerzner, who organized and hosted the Aurora Awards ceremony at the Montreal Worldcon earlier this month, but I’d like to share it publicly here as well: Dear Liana, You did a magnificent job. You were right, and I was wrong: the whole thing came off beautifully, […]

If you’re voting by mail, tomorrow — Wednesday, July 8, 2009 — is the postmarked-by deadline. If you’re voting online, you have until Wednesday, July 15. If you’re a member of this year’s Worldcon in Montreal (and a Canadian) you can vote for free; otherwise, there’s a $5 charge to help defray the cost of […]

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So, I wandered into the local McNally Robinson here in Saskatoon, and what should I find in the science-fiction section but this wonderful endcap display honouring this year’s Aurora Award nominees. W00t! Titles pictured: Identity Theft and Other Stories by Robert J. Sawyer Marseguro by Edward Willett After the Fires by Ursula Pflug The Year’s […]

James Alan Gardner’s “The Ray-Gun: A Love Story” is this year’s winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for Best Short Story of the Year. I’m thrilled because Jim is my friend; because Jim is in my little writers’ group, and we workshopped the story; and because I’m reprinting the story next month in Distant […]

Yesterday, I put up a post pimpin’ my Identity Theft and Other Stories, from Red Deer Press, which is one of five finalist for the Aurora Award for Best Long-Form Work in English this year. And, indeed, I owe it to the publisher, who invested a lot of money in publishing my book, to do […]

My short-story collection Identity Theft and Other Stories from Red Deer Press is currently one of five finalists for the Aurora Award for Best Long Form Work in English. In honour of that, I’m pleased to offer the Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated title novella, “Identity Theft,” for free during the remainder of the voting period. […]

A few interesting facts about this year’s Aurora Awards and the ceremony at which they will be presented, courtesy of the website for Anticipation, the World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal, which is hosting the Auroras this year: “Since the Awards will be held in Montreal, we are placing emphasis on access to French works, […]

I was out of town (in Florida) when the Hugo nominees were announced for this year. I’m sure you’ve all by now seen the list of nominees. It’s a good list, and my hat’s off to all the finalists (sincerely — I had nothing that was eligible last year). I’m particularly thrilled, though, by the […]

The nominees for the 2009 Aurora Awards were announced this morning. My short-story collection Identity Theft and Other Stories is one of five finalists for the Best Long Form Work in English Award this year. In the Long Form category, very unusually, three of the five nominees are short-story collections. Also, three of the five […]

I’ve been pimpin’ for months on behalf of James Alan Gardner’s remarkable “The Ray-Gun: A Love Story,” as you can see here. And I was mightily disappointed when the final Nebula ballot was released last week, and it wasn’t on it. This story made not one but two year’s best anthologies, after all, and was […]

I had dinner last night with my friend Diane Lacey, who is on the Hugo Awards committee for this year’s Worldcon in Montreal, and she asked that I remind people that the deadline for nominations is drawing near — as it also is for the Auroras. You can nominate for the Hugos here. And Canadians […]

Forget all that talk about Randy McCharles the great convention organizer. I’m totally thrilled to announce that Randy McCharles the great writer has just sold reprint rights to his novella “Ringing the Changes in Okotoks, Alberta” from Tesseracts 12 to David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer for the 2009 edition of their anthology Year’s Best […]

I mentioned K.A. Bedford’s Time Machines Reapired While-U-Wait in this post. The book has just won Australia’s Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year — congratulations, Adrian! And congratulations to Brian Hades of Calgary’s EDGE, which published the book. Woot! This is truly a case of nice guys finishing first! The full […]

I’ve posted thirteen messages with suggestions for this year’s Hugo Awards (the top international honours in science fiction) and Aurora Awards (the Canadian national SF awards). You can see them all here. Attending and supporting members of last year’s World Science Fiction Convention in Denver and this year’s one in Montreal may nominate for the […]

This is the thirteenth and final post in a series of blog posts in which I’ve discussed people and things that I think merit consideration for this year’s Hugo and Aurora Awards; both sets of awards will be given at the Montreal Worldcon this year. Last year, 2008, was a good one for my writing […]

This is the twelfth in a series of blog posts in which I’m going to discuss people and things that I think merit consideration for this year’s Hugo and Aurora Awards; both sets of awards will be given at the Montreal Worldcon this year. On the Hugo ballot, you also get to nominate for the […]

This is the eleventh in a series of blog posts in which I’m going to discuss people and things that I think merit consideration for this year’s Hugo and Aurora Awards; both sets of awards will be given at the Montreal Worldcon this year. It astonishes me that Taral Wayne and I have known each […]

This is the tenth in a series of blog posts in which I’m going to discuss people and things that I think merit consideration for this year’s Hugo and Aurora Awards; both sets of awards will be given at the Montreal Worldcon this year. You know why Locus — the trade journal of the science-fiction […]

This is the ninth in a series of blog posts in which I’m going to discuss people and things that I think merit consideration for this year’s Hugo and Aurora Awards; both sets of awards will be given at the Montreal Worldcon this year. I’ve already mentioned that Neo-Opsis and On Spec deserve your consideration […]

This is the eighth in a series of blog posts in which I’m going to discuss people and things that I think merit consideration for this year’s Hugo and Aurora Awards; both sets of awards will be given at the Montreal Worldcon this year. So, Hugo Award-winning science-fiction critic John Clute is in Toronto right […]

On Thursday, August 26, 2004, I was called upon to welcome visiting Australian SF writer K.A. Bedford on behalf of the Canadian SF scene at his reading and signing at the World’s Biggest Bookstore in Toronto, and we’ve been friends ever since. Although he lives Down Under, he’s published here in Canada (he was “discovered” […]

This is the seventh in a series of blog posts in which I’m going to discuss people and things that I think merit consideration for this year’s Hugo and Aurora Awards; both sets of awards will be given at the Montreal Worldcon this year. Those of you who’ve read my novel Wake as it was […]

People kvetch that we don’t have an Aurora Award for whatever their favourite art form is, and recently someone put forth the silly argument that the reason we don’t is because of the cost of making trophies. Poppycock. The reason we don’t have Aurora Awards for every possible form of expression is that no one […]

This is the sixth in a series of blog posts in which I’m going to discuss people and things that I think merit consideration for this year’s Hugo and Aurora Awards; both sets of awards will be given at the Montreal Worldcon this year. Okay, okay, what about little ole me? Well, although I didn’t […]

This is the fifth in a series of blog posts in which I’m going to discuss people and things that I think merit consideration for this year’s Hugo and Aurora Awards; both sets of awards will be given at the Montreal Worldcon this year. Okay, folks, y’all have been very good to me when it […]

Marcel Gagné and I founded the Canadian SF Works Database in 2007 as a resource for those interested in nominating for Canada’s Aurora Awards, and for those who want to know what Canadian works are eligible for international science fiction and fantasy awards. If you are a creator, please make sure your creations are listed. […]

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts in which I’m going to discuss people and things that I think merit consideration for this year’s Hugo and Aurora Awards; both sets of awards will be given at the Montreal Worldcon this year. In the previous post in this series, I talked about a […]

This is the third in a series of blog posts in which I’m going to discuss people and things that I think merit consideration for this year’s Hugo and Aurora Awards; both sets of awards will be given at the Montreal Worldcon this year. Respectfully submitted for your consideration for the Hugo Award for Best […]