The nifty podcast Adventures in Scifi Publishing from San Diego has part one of a new interview with me online now. Of course, the interview focuses on Rollback. The interviewer is Shaun Farrell. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
… will be at The Write Book and Gift Shop in Honeoye Falls, New York (Finger Lakes region, near Rochester). Why there? ‘Cause the co-owner of the store is Nick DiChario, Hugo and World Fantasy Award finalist. The launch part will be held Sunday, April 15, at 3:00 p.m. Details are here. It’s a great […]
I’ll be an in-studio guest on CBC Radio One’s Here and Now this Monday, April 9, starting at 4:50 p.m. Eastern time, talking about Rollback. Here and Now is heard throughout southern Ontario CBC Radio One in Toronto is 99.1 FM; you can also listen online here.
This mailing went out today to all the people on my email list. If you’d like to be added directly to my email list — I only send out notices once or twice a year — drop me a note at: sawyer@sfwriter.com Hello, Robert J. Sawyer reader! I’m delighted to announce the release of my […]
Ellen Datlow has put up a selection of photos from the Toronto World Horror Convention on Flickr. Her whole album is here. This one, which is particularly nice of me, shows me and fellow Canadian writer Steve Erickson. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
The blog “My Book, The Movie” invites authors to daydream about who they’d like to see in a big-screen adaptation of one of their books. My musings on casting a Rollback movie are here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
The cover story in the current Publishers Weekly is about science fiction publishing, and it leads with a short interview with me, then goes into discussions of specific lines — and in that section, I’m quoted again discussing Phyllis Gotlieb’s Birthstones, the latest book under the Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint. A quote from the […]
Today’s edition — Wednesday, April 4, 2007 — of The Ottawa Citizen contains an op-ed piece by Robert J. Sawyer on atheism and the Modern Skeptical Movement, which the paper is calling “Unhealthy Skepticism” (my original title was “A Bright Idea for Atheists”). It takes up most of a page (page 17). The Ottawa Citizen […]
So says SciFiDimensions in their review of Robert J. Sawyer’s Rollback. Who am I to argue? The full review is here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer is the SciFi Essential Book for April 2007, in Tor’s cross-promotion program with SciFi Channel. Woohoo! (If you want to read a longer excerpt than the one on the SciFi Channel website, look here.) The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Tomorrow’s Ottawa Citzien — Wednesday, April 4, 2007 — will carry my op-ed piece, which I entitled “A Bright Idea for Atheists.” It’s an expanded version of comments I made at the grand opening of the Centre for Inquiry, Ontario last month. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
It’s showtime! Today — Tuesday, April 3, 2007 — is the official publication date for my 17th novel, Rollback. It’s now shipping from online retailers, and people have reported buying it in retail stores. On my website you’ll find the opening chapters, the dustjacket text, a book-club / reading group discussion guide, and much more. […]
Genrecon is a one-day convention on Saturday, May 12, 2007, devoted to genre fiction: SF, fantasy, mystery, horror, romance. And it’s free! It’s in Sarnia, Ontario, just a few hours’ drive from Toronto (and near Detroit). If you’ve never been to a con, and even if you have, come on out. Guest of honour is […]
The Slush God speaketh … to Rob! John Joseph Adams, assistant editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, interviews Robert J. Sawyer in the current issue of SciFi Weekly, the online magazine of the SciFi Channel. The interview is here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
The April 2007 edition of Ernest Lilley’s webzine SFRevu reviews Rollback, and features an interview with its author, Robert J. Sawyer. The review concludes by saying that Rollback is “a fascinating human drama, where joy and tragedy take human form, rather than apocalyptic ones. All in all, it’s a ‘skytop’ story, worth reading by genre […]
I may not have time to do a proper con report, what with Rollback officially being released in two days, so let me just say for the record that the Toronto World Horror Convention was one of the finest genre-fiction conventions ever in Toronto. Many also said it was the finest World Horror Convention ever, […]
