Planet S is the biweekly free arts-and-entertainment newspaper in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan — and the current issue contains this wonderful interview with me, conducted by Gregory Beatty. In the print edition, the interview takes up a full page, and the cover of the issue proclaims “Sci-Fi Sensei Comes to Saskatoon.” Woohoo! The Robert J. Sawyer Web […]
The by-plane part of the Rollback book tour is drawing to a close. I’m now at the Calgary airport, in the Air Canada lounge, about to fly to Saskatoon for the final stop on the tour. The event in Calgary at McNally Robinson was excellent — packed house, ton of books sold. It was a […]
Edmonton was fabulous — one of the very best stops on the entire Rollback book tour. I flew in from Calgary (only 250 km away), and was pleased to see that the Indigo bookstore at the Edmonton Airport had a whack of hardcover copies of Rollback. I signed their stock, then was picked up by […]
Still on book tour for Rollback … Vancouver was fabulous. Bonnie Jean Mah, who was one of my writing students at Banff in 2000, picked me up at the airport. We rushed off to Chapters on Robson Street, so I could sign stock. The afternoon was spent with meetings. Bonnie Jean and I got the […]
Odyssey: The Fantasy Writing Workshop has just released a podcast of my lecture on point of view, given last summer when I was writer-in-residence at the workshop. Have a listen here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
I’m kicking Tolkien’s butt, at least in Winnipeg! The Winnipeg Free Press bestsellers list for the week of April 22, 2007, in the hardcover fiction category: 1. Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje 2. Effigy by Alissa York 3. Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows (advance orders) by J.K. Rowling 4. Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer 5. […]
