Got a nice bit of fan mail just now, in response to the news about the series order for Flash Forward. He says: Here’s hoping someone will read the wonderful novel Wake and turn it into a movie as well. I enjoyed it immensely and can hardly stand waiting for its sequels. Amazing and interesting […]
My friend Stephanie Wilson in Ottawa sent me some lovely pictures she took at my launch party for Wake at the Clock Tower Pub on my birthday, Wednesday, April 29, 2009: A trademark over-the-top RJS reading. :) The wonderful folks at Perfect Books got me a birthday cake! Stephanie Wilson (pictured with me) gave me […]
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, […]
On Thursday, March 19, 2009, Fiona Kelleghan of the University of Miami presented an excellent paper entitled Time and the Fiction of Robert J. Sawyer: Flash Forward to the End of an Era at the 30th annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando, Florida. You can listen to the whole thing […]
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 […]
There’s nothing harder than being a freelancer in today’s publishing climate, and having a new child just makes it even more difficult. Check out John Klima’s blog. (John is the editor of the Hugo Award-nominated fanzine Electric Velocipede and did the recent interview with me for the Tor.com website.) Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web […]
On Thursday, May 7, I was in at Penguin Group (Canada)’s offices for some meetings, and received the wonderful news from Don Robinson, Vice President of Sales, that just twenty-three days after the Canadian release of Wake, Penguin Canada is going back to press for a second hardcover printing. W00t! Of course, Penguin has done […]
On Wednesday, May 6, 2009, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer gave an invited 90-minute talk at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience [pictured] at the University of Pennsylvania (“Penn”). Sawyer was the first science-fiction writer ever invited to speak at the Center. Sawyer’s talk delved into the cognitive science, neuroscience, and other […]
(To quote Sally Field, for the humor-impaired …) So, Capricon — a major Chicago-area science-fiction convention — polled its attendees to see which Guests of Honor from their previousw 29 years they’d most like to have come back for the 30th year. I’m honored and thrilled to be one of those chosen. Capricon 30, a […]
… the account manager at your bank contacts you because he’s read the news story about your TV series pick-up and wants you to come in to discuss what you’re going to do with all that money. ;) Took less than 12 hours from when the news broke … :D The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Penguin Group (Canada) has produced a nifty 70-second book trailer for Robert J. Sawyer’s novel Wake. You can watch the trailer here on YouTube, and learn more about the novel on Rob’s website and at Penguin’s new WakeWatchWonder.com site. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
W00t! The Hollywood Reporter and Variety and TV Guide are all reporting that late today (Friday, May 8, 2009), ABC gave a series order for Flash Forward, the TV show based on my novel of the same name. The Hollywood Reporter says it’s a 13-episode order, which is a big commitment (many shows only get […]
Wake is set in Kitcener-Waterloo, Ontario, and now you can get signed copies there, either at Words Worth Books in Waterloo, or the Chapters superstore on Gateway Blvd. in Kitchener, as well as the Chapters at the north end of Waterloo. And don’t forget that I’m coming to Waterloo soon for a public event: Reading […]
There was a wonderful book-launch party for Wake in my home town of Ottawa, Ontario, on April 29, 2009, which happened to be my birthday. Hayden and Liz Trenholm took these pictures of the event, which was held at the Clock Tower Pub: As I blow out the candles on my birthday cake, Pat Cavan […]
Penguin Group (Canada) has created a gorgeous, Flash-content rich web site to promote my WWW trilogy (the novel Wake, and its forthcoming sequels, Watch and Wonder). Check out WakeWatchWonder.com for a nifty book trailer, Wake wallpapers, FAQs, and much more. It’s a work-in-progress — Penguin will be tweaking, expanding, and updating the site continously — […]
I make no comment; I just pass on the news, this time from Entertainment Weekly: An insider says more promos [for Flash Forward] are planned for the finales of Lost, Grey’s Anatomy, and Dancing with the Stars this month. The whole article is here. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Booklist: “Sawyer not only has an irresistibly engaging narrative voice but also a gift for confronting thorny philosophical conundrums. At every opportunity, he forces his readers to think while holding their attention with ingenious premises and superlative craftsmanship.” The Canadian Press: “Sawyer’s novels are always part science and part philosophical exercise, raising questions of morality […]
Sacramento News & Review reviews Wake: Sawyer’s compassionate writing lets us avoid the trap of assuming monstrosity in difference. As Caitlin and the consciousness of the Web learn to communicate, readers can easily begin to question what it is that makes us human. Like all great science fiction, Sawyer’s work ultimately stirs up philosophical questions, […]
Right after the press screening for J.J. Abrams’s new Star Trek movie last Saturday, Space: The Imagaintion Station producer Mark Askwith and I went out to lunch at Milestones with the great crew from Hardcore Nerdity, and we recorded our thoughts about the movie, which opens North America-wide in two days, on Friday, May 8. […]
Above: Chris Szego and Aurora Simmons from Bakka-Phoenix Books selling copies of Wake at the launch. Above: Robert J. Sawyer reading from Wake. Above: Mark Askwith (producer for Space: The Imagination Station), who interviewed Rob on stage at the launch; Lesley Livingston, author of the YA fantasy novel Wonderous Strange from HarperCollins; and Robert J. […]
Quill Blog — the blog of the Canadian publishing trade journal Quill & Quire — has some photos of the Toronto launch for my new novel Wake on Thursday, April 30, 2009 at the pub Dominion on Queen. Have a look. (In the article, Quill Blog calls me, “Robert J. Sawyer — a.k.a. the Canadian […]
Planet S is the biweekly arts-and-entertainment newspaper in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and I was on the cover of the April 9, 2009, issue, and the cover story was about me. That story by Ashleigh Mattern, headlined, “Light Speed, Mr. Sawyer — Engage!,” is online here. (The first word in the article refers to Wanuskewin Heritage Park, […]
A grade-12 student sent me an email today about my novels The Terminal Experiment and Calculating God (the former a Nebula Award winner; the latter a Hugo Award finalist), because she’s doing her final project for English class on them. She asked: I don’t mean to ask anything personal, but are you a religious man […]
New Scientist just uploaded eight short articles about “The Unknown Internet,” including this one entitled “Could the net become self-aware?,” which speaks to the themes of my novel Wake. In the article on self-awareness, Ben Goertzel, who appears in the acknowledgments of Wake, says, “The internet behaves a fair bit like a mind. It might […]
Charles Mohapel — the great Canadian photographer of all things science fiction — came out to my event for Wake at Parragraphe Bookstore in Montreal on Tuesday, April 28, 2009, and took some wonderful pictures, including the ones below. Many thanks, Charles! Photographs copyright 2009 by Charles Mohapel. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Roundup of reviews to date of the Robert J. Sawyer novel Wake (or WWW:Wake, as the title is styled on the US dustjacket): “Extremely well written and complex making Tron look like pre-school, this is a terrific first tale in what looks like will be a great trilogy.” —Alternative-Worlds.com “Wake provides a refreshing intersect of […]
My op-ed piece “All Screens Are Not Created Equal” — about computer use, multitasking, and attention deficit — is now on my website here. It was first published in The Ottawa Citizen, the largest circulation newspaper in Canada’s capital city, on March 20, 2009. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
… see what my buddy (and Space: The Imagination personality) Jonathan Llyr has to say about it, over at Hardcore Nerdity. The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
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, […]
