Being an author is kinda cool sometimes. :) Today I got recognized not once, not twice, but three times in public — a record to date. It happened first at BestBuy, where a sales associate in the computer department told me how much he’d enjoyed my books, including Factoring Humanity and Calculating God. Then it […]
Just learned that my Rollback will be the SciFi Essential Book for April 2007. Cool!
Charming, I’d say! :) A bigger version (PDF) is here. This issue — dated October — is on sale now, and contains the first of four parts of the serialization of Rollback. The cover art is by John Allemand, and the cover design is by Victoria Green.
In another conversation elsewhere, I’ve been reminded of an old interview I did for the Canadian SF magazine Challenging Destiny. This one’s a transcription of a recorded interview, so it’s kinda loose reading, but it’s still interesting. Oh, and just for the record, nowhere does it say that the science in science fiction is actually […]
I’m delighted to announce that I will be the Edna Staebler Writer in Residence at the Kitchener (Ontario) Public Library this fall. I will be doing free appraisals/critiques of manuscripts of all types, and having private one-on-one hour long consultations with the authors of the works submitted. I’ll also be leading a couple of workshops […]
Over at Meme Therapy, they have this Brain Parade going on, exploring this topic: Science fiction isn’t a predictive tool. Do you agree with that statement? And if so why do we fuss over plausibility in science fiction? The question is illustrated with the picture above of a Star Trek communicator — but there’s no […]
I’ll be interviewed live today on 1370 Connection on WXXI 1370 AM, the National Public Radio affiliate in Rochester, New York. You can listen live here. I go on at 12:10 p.m. Eastern time (9:10 a.m. on the West Coast).
Steven H. Silver has weighed in very kindly on Nick DiChario’s A Small and Remarkable Life, the latest title from my Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint. You can read Steven’s review here.
I’m a huge fan of this free TrueType font, provided by Hewlett Packard as an alternative to the spindly Courier New that comes with Windows. Manuscripts are still routinely done in Courier, and this version is much easier on the eyes.
I finally got my programming schedule for L.A.con IV, the World Science Fiction Convention in Los Angeles. You can see it here.
