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 […]
Carolyn decided the picture of my Nebula Award trophy on my website sucked — and it did; it was a low-res scan of a print that we’d put up back in 1996. So she took a new one, and here it is: I won the Nebula in 1996 for my novel The Terminal Experiment. That […]
Y’all know I submitted Watch, the second volume of my WWW trilogy to my editors (in Toronto, New York, and London) on Monday of this week. And just before midnight tonight (Friday), I finished up the only other outstanding project I had. I can’t tell you much about it, except to say it’s a TV […]
Over at Locus Online, Mark Kelly has updated the indispensable Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards with results through the end of 2008 (and he’s also given it a very attractive facelift). Here’s the entry on me. And nice to see here that I’m in 8th place overall for total award wins in the history […]
How cool is this? Just received word that a Ph.D. student in the School of English at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki — the largest university in Greece — is doing her Ph.D. dissertation on the works of Robert J. Sawyer. I have a great fondness for Greece: I love its history, and visited the country […]
Hey, New York Times! My friend Stephen Kotowych points out that this article in the Sunday, January 25, 2009, New York Times [but online since yesterday] says, “Back in 1996, [Brad] Meltzer built what was arguably the first author Web site for his first novel …” Poppycock, says I! My website has been online since Wednesday, […]
I’m pleased to see that my eBay feedback score just passed 400, with 100% positive ratings, and that my detailed ratings (Item as described; Communication; Shipping time; and Shipping and handling charges) are all five stars. Carolyn deserves most of the credit, as she runs our eBay store, selling signed copies of my books. The […]
I’ve now finished 18 novels, and, as of yesterday, have finished editing my fourth anthology, and I have three collections (including one, Relativity, that’s mostly nonfiction). That’s a total of 25 books. Here are the 20 that are all my own fiction, totaling about 1.8 million words: It’s a start. :) The Robert J. Sawyer […]
