Craig Rintoul of Bookbits came by yesterday and recorded an audio interview with me about Wake, which he’s now whipped into a nifty book trailer for the novel. You can watch it on YouTube. Many thanks, Craig! (Runtime: 6 minutes.) (Penguin Canada’s trailer — of a very different sort — for Wake is also on […]
Morley Walker, the long-time books editor of The Winnipeg Free Press, has a major, lengthy profile of Robert J. Sawyer on page 1 of today’s (Thursday, May 14, 2009) Entertainment section. (The Free Press, a major Canadian daily newspaper, is the largest-circulation paper in Manitoba.) You can read it online right here. An excerpt: Robert […]
Adrienne Kress, Robert J. Sawyer, Lesley LivingstonYes, my job is way better than your job … ;)Lesley Livingston of the wonderful website Hardcore Nerdity interviewed me just before the start of my Toronto book launch for Wake on Thursday, April 30, 2009 — and now our conversation is online as a podcast right here (runtime: 15 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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
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
The blog “Science Fiction and Other Oddysseys” just posted a nice interview with me conducted by Ann Wilkes. You can read it here, and more about my novel Wake, which I discuss in the interview (among other things) here. Pictured: Robert J. Sawyer and Ann Wilkes at Rob’s signing at Borderlands Books in San Francisco […]
Print interviews with Rob about Wake: SF Signal Tor.com John Scaliz’s Whatever (a “Big Ideas” essay by Rob) The Page 69 Test The Mississauga News Audio interviews with Rob about Wake: Peter Anthony Holder of Montreal Talk Radio CJAD (30 minutes) The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Peter Anthony Holder hosts Holder Tonight on Montreal radio station CJAD-AM and Toronto radio station CFRB-AM. He had Robert J. Sawyer on this past Thursday, April 9, 2009, to talk about his new novel Wake. You can hear the whole half-hour interview right here (click to play; right click to download the MP3 file). The […]
Proving that there a great bunch of people, my previous publisher Tor.com has a wonderful, lengthy interview with me today about Wake, my new novel for Ace. The interview was conducted by the terrific John Klima, who is a Hugo finalist this year for his fanzine Electric Velocipede. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
A good, meaty interview, on the occasion of the publication of Wake, is now up over at SF Signal. John DeNardo conducted the interview. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
The April 8, 2009, edition of The Maine Edge — the weekly arts and culture newspaper in Bangor, Maine — has a glowing review of Wake on page 7, and an interview with me on page 8. You can read them both in the PDF version of the newspaper here. Or read the interview online […]
Leading up to my appearance later this month at The Frye Festival in Moncton, New Brunswick, The Moncton Times & Transcript interviews me today. The article is online here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Darby is the YA protagonist of a novel by my friend (and Surrey International Writers Conference programming guru) kc dyer, and here Darby speaks with me. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
As a lead-up to my trip to Istanbul, I did four quick-and-dirty by-email interviews for Turkish newspapers, wire services, and magazines. The deadlines on these were so tight that I just had to bang out my answers without having a chance to compose my thoughts or edit my responses — so don’t expect me to […]
This Thursday, February 12, 2009, is the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, and Discovery Channel Canada is doing a special episode of its nightly science-news program Daily Planet devoted to Darwin Day. The guests are science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer (author of Hominids) and paleontologist Peter Ward (co-author of Rare Earth). Checking my records I […]
The Office of the Future As a lead-up to my trip to Istanbul, I did four quick-and-dirty by-email interviews for Turkish newspapers, wire services, and magazines. The deadlines on these were so tight that I just had to bang out my answers without having a chance to compose my thoughts or edit my responses — […]
As a lead-up to my trip to Istanbul, I did four quick-and-dirty by-email interviews for Turkish newspapers, wire services, and magazines. The deadlines on these were so tight that I just had to bang out my answers without having a chance to compose my thoughts or edit my responses — so don’t expect me to […]
Stephen Euin Cobb has an article entitled Five Famous Authors do Public Appearances in Second Life over at Baen’s Universe, including quotes from yours truly. And is it just me, or does Catherine Asaro look really hot in Second Life? (Okay, she’s pretty damn hot in real life, too!) Photo: Robert J. Sawyer in Second […]
As a lead-up to my trip to Istanbul, I did four quick-and-dirty by-email interviews for Turkish newspapers, wire services, and magazines. The deadlines on these were so tight that I just had to bang out my answers without having a chance to compose my thoughts or edit my responses — so don’t expect me to […]
The Brantford Expositor has a cool article headlined “Creator of Worlds and Chaser of Ghosts” by Brian Gorman about the incongruity of a hard-SF writer like me hosting a TV series like Supernatural Investigator. You can read it online here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Papers, please! Today’s National Post — a Canadian daily newspaper — has a brief interview with me (formatted horribly in the online edition, I must say) in the travel section. You can read it online (at least for a while) here. In theory, the hardcopy edition also has a passport-style photo of me — but […]
