The problem with reading newspaper articles online is that you miss seeing the layout of the article in the actual printed paper. To my astonishment and delight, it turns out that the article about me and my novel Wake in today’s Waterloo Region Record, a major Canadian daily newspaper, is on THE FRONT PAGE! The […]
That’s the headline for the article about me, my novel Wake, and why it’s set in Waterloo, Ontario, that appears in today’s edition of The Waterloo Region Record, the major daily newspaper serviing the twin cities of Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario. And, indeed, it really was a no-brainer: people would accuse me of making up […]
The Globe and Mail: Canada’s National Newspaper has a list today by TV critic John Doyle of “10 shows I adore already,” his picks for the new TV season. Flash Forward, based on my novel of the same name, is on the list. Check it out. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
Actually, 1,050 — the number of autographs I recently finished signing for The Easton Press, which is producing a signed, numbered leather-bound limited edition of Wake. The edition is limited to 900 copies; the extra sheets were in case any got damaged during binding. Whew! Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
Over the weekend, I was in Winnipeg for an appearance at McNally Robinson (which totally rocked) and Keycon (ditto). Did interviews there for the local CBC radio station and for National Geographic Online. Today, I was off to Humber College in Toronto to speak to Cynthia Good’s class in the Creative Book Publishing Program there. […]
In a nice little piece about using lasers to communicate with submarines right here. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
They’re going fast! I’m only doing 30 or so one-on-one hour-long consultations while I’m writer-in-residence at the Canadian Light Source in Saskatoon in June and July, and I’ve just booked the first six appointments. If you want one — absolutely free! — email me at sawyer@sfwriter.com. I’ll read up to 5,000 words of manuscript (which […]
My new novel Wake is set in Waterloo, Ontario — Canada’s computing and high-tech capital — and to celebrate that, I’m doing a reading and Q&A at The Waterloo Entertainment Centre on Thursday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $10 (to defray facilities rental) or free if you buy a copy of Wake from […]
Fascinating article about, among other things, Homo sapiens dining on Homo neanderthalensis in Britain’s Daily Mail. Of course, I said we were the cause of the Neanderthals demise in my novel Hominids and its sequels. :) Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
So says TV By The Numbers, which has the whole ABC fall schedule, as announced yesterday, here. THURSDAYS: 8:00 p.m.: “Flash Forward” 9:00 p.m.: “Grey’s Anatomy” 10:00 p.m.: “Private Practice” Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
SF Site is the wonderful web site run by Rodger Turner. It’s just posted a review of my novel WWW: Wake as the lead review for their Mid-May 2009 issue; the reviewer is Michael M. Jones, and it’s a particularly gratifying review because, praise aside, Jones clearly gets the book. :) The whole review is […]
One of them says: I finished reading Wake and I wanted to tell you that your book and your ending are superb. I was wondering (without knowing it) as I read the book how you would end it, how it could be “self-contained” yet leave us at a place ready for the middle W in […]
Sacramento Book Review reviews Wake by Robert J. Sawyer right here, saying in part: From an author who has written many books and has won just about every award a science fiction author can comes one of the most original and fascinating novels to be published in a long time. It’s one of those books […]
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 […]
… is on YouTube alreday. It’s awesome. Check it out! (Click the “HQ” in the lower right to see it in high quality.) W00t! Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
In the July issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction, Paul Di Filippo gives a rave review to Nick DiChario‘s Valley of Day-Glo, which was published under my Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint. The review says, in part: Nick DiChario has written a new bonkers novel, Valley of Day-Glo (Robert J. Sawyer Books, trade paper, $15.95, 240 […]
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 […]
A FEW WORDS FROM ROBERT J. SAWYERA posting to the blog of Waterloo’s Words Worth Books I’ve long known that Waterloo was a special place. I lived there in the summer of 1980 — has it really been almost 30 years? — and was immediately aware of how much intellectual excitement there was in your […]
1983: HOTEL comes to ABC2009: FLASH FORWARD comes to ABCIn the 500-channel universe, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that the big-four American broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox — still dominate in terms of audience size. Nothing on cable comes close in audience reach as far as dramatic television is […]
Douglas Adams famously observed that the World Wide Web was the only thing ever for which the abbreviation took three times longer to say than the full name (“World Wide Web” is three syllables, but “WWW” is nine). But, man, reading all the coverage of the Flash Forward TV series in the trades, it’s getting […]
As I’ve long said, the best spaceship captains are Canadians: Leslie Nielsen (J.J. Adams, Forbidden Planet), William Shatner (James T. Kirk, ST:TOS), Lorne Greene (Adama, the original Battlestar Galactica), and Douglas Rain (HAL 9000, effectively in charge of Discovery in 2001) — not to mention Keith Lansing in my novel Starplex. ;) Now we can […]
Ian Randal Strock — formerly of Analog magazine and Science Fiction Chronicle (and one of those who tried out for the job of book reviewer at Analog in the wake of Tom Easton’s departure; the job went to Don Sakers) — reviews my novel Wake over at SF news site SFScope. The review includes a […]
Star Trek is playing at the Imax theatre a kilometre from my home, and so, what the heck, went to see the film for the third time today (and the first time in Imax). It is stunning on the big screen — the clarity and detail is amazing (in a real Imax theatre, at least). […]
Okay, yeah, I don’t live in B.C. (British Columbia), but I’m not complaining. :) Here’s the front page of the “Arts & Life” section of the Tuesday, May 12, 2009, edition of Canada’s National Post, a major daily newspaper distributed coast-to-coast: The actual article by Mark Medley appears on page A3 and runs the entire […]
Curled Up With a Good Book has a lovely review of my Calculating God right here (and you can read more about the novel here). The review, by Ray Palen, concludes: Compelling to the final page, Robert J. Sawyer’s Calculating God is not to be missed by fans of science fiction, religious history, philosophy or […]
My eBay store — through which I sell autographed copies of my books — will be closed for June and July 2009, because I’ll be off in Saskatoon being writer-in-residence at the Canadian Light Source. I’ll be fulfilling orders received through Friday, May 29, 2009 — and then won’t be taking new orders until August. […]
Mississauga, where I live, is Canada’s sixth largest city, with a population of 704,000; it’s eastern border is Toronto’s western border. And the Mississauga newspaper is called The Mississauga News, and today they put online this nice piece about the Flash Forward TV series. (The above photo is the Mississauga News‘s file photo of me, […]
A wonderful piece by the terrific Mark Medley is online here. And note my comment, added at the end: Many thanks for the terrific article. A small clarification, if I may. The article says, “HBO was keen at first, but passed after reading the pilot.” In fact, HBO is still very keen, and retains a […]
Just got back from the S-VOX studios in downtown Toronto, where I recorded my voice-over narration for the final episode of Supernatural Investigator, the half-hour weekly series I host for Vision TV. This was my last duty on the series — it’s been a blast being part of it! We still are on the air […]
