This week’s episode of FlashForward, the ABC TV series based on my novel of the same name, not only added a whole lot of physics to the show but also revealed where Mark Benford and Dr. Olivia Benford live: at 25696 Sawyer Court. We see the above address label in the flashforward vision of Dylan […]
I won’t be a formal participant in National Novel Writing Month — indeed, I’ll be spending much of November working on my script for FlashForward, the ABC TV series based on my novel of the same name. But I do think NaNoWriMo is a cool idea. Check it out. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web […]
David S. Goyer, executive producer and showrunner of FlashForward, the ABC TV series based on my novel of the same name, discusses (among other things) my involvement with the series and the episode that I’ll be writing (episode 17) in this 1 minute 46 second YouTube interview. For a larger picture or HD version, go […]
They’re finally up! Penguin Canada’s subway poster advertisements for my novel Wake are now up on some subway cars on the Yonge-University-Spadina (main north-south) route in Toronto. Toronto’s subways are operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). I’m in Calgary right now, but sightings of the ads this week have been made by longtime SF […]
The Aurora Award-winning webiste MADE IN CANADA — Don Bassie‘s elaborate and detailed repository of information about Canadian science fiction and fantasy — is no more. It had been hosted on Yahoo’s Geocities service, and, in a spectacular act of online genocide, Yahoo wiped out all free Geocities sites on 26 October 2009. Don’s site […]
… reading this discussion thread will eat hours of your time. It’s a fascinating, hyper-detailed look at every prop that ever appeared more than once in classic Star Trek. Tons of great pictures and screen captures. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
Coming December 1, 2009, from Penguin Group Canada: new premium mass-market editions of two of my novels: The Terminal Experiment, which won the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s Nebula Award for Best Novel of Year for 1995, and Illegal Alien, which the Globe and Mail‘s mystery-fiction reviewer Margaret Cannon said was “the best […]
A nice video interview with Jessika Borsiczky, executive producer of FlashForward, the TV series based on my novel. (Jessika’s last name is pronounced Bor-shees-key.) Tune in tonight for episode 5, “Gimme Some Truth.” I was on the set for much of the filming of this one, and enjoyed having lunch with guest star Glynn Turman. […]
Answer: because they don’t sell memberships at the door, and they cap sales for pre-registration. This weekend, I have to be in Vancouver, British Columbia, as a presenter at the Surrey International Writers Conference. Sometime shortly after that — but the date is yet to be precisely nailed down, but it might be Friday, October […]
In honor of the release of the new tie-in editions of my 1999 novel FlashForward, which is the basis for the hit ABC TV series, I wrote a little essay about the book for Tor.com. Here it is. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
FlashForward — the TV series based on my novel of the same name — is a serial drama: it’s meant to be watched in sequence, and the episodes are being filmed in the order in which they will air. But the original Star Trek (and, indeed, most nighttime television for decades) was an episodic drama, […]
I got asked today by a new writer if it was worth touring for a second book, and whether I’d done that for my own second novel, Far-Seer. My reply: The first thing to remember is that Far-Seer came out 17 years ago: before the World Wide Web, or any of the social media associated […]
Holy crap! My novel FlashForward — basis for the hit TV series — is currently the #2 bestselling book store-wide at Play.com, the UK’s second-largest online retailer. Here’s the list: Congratulations to Simon Spanton and the team at Gollancz, my British publisher, for getting the book out there with such success. Visit The Robert J. […]
McNally Robinson’s Chadwick Ginther interviews Aurora Award-winning Canadian SF writer Hayden Trenholm, whose SF-crime novel Steel Whispers is just out from Bundoran Press, here. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
Thanks to the fine people at Escape Pod, there’s a wonderful free podcast of my short story “Come All Ye Faithful,” first published in the anthology Space Inc., edited by Julie E. Czerneda, and available in my collection Identity Theft and Other Stories, published by Red Deer Press. The reading by Mike Boris is absolutely […]
More and more science-fiction conventions have taken to asking authors to donate things to charity auctions, which, on its surface, seems like a great idea: let’s see if we can raise some money for this cause or that. The problem: conventions that don’t have the turnout, or don’t do the hustle at the con, to […]
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, the world’s top-selling English-language SF magazine, recently changed book reviewers. Of course, all of us long-time Analog readers have been curious to see what sort of approach the new reviewer, Don Sakers, was going to take, and so I turned with interest to “The Reference Library” section of the October […]
Look who’s the cover boy on today’s Kingston Whig-Standard! The Whig-Standard is the major daily newspaper in Kingston, Ontario, and the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in Canada. Today’s cover story is in honour of my appearance yesterday at Queen’s University, located in Kingston, where I gave a public talk sponsored by Queen’s Faculty of […]
The UK edition of the FlashForward novel by Robert J. Sawyer hit #22 storewide at Amazon.co.uk today; has moved up to #5 in genre; and is holding strong at #1 in science fiction. (And the book has now spent nine days in the top 100 at Amazon.co.uk — yay!) Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web […]
ABC today announced that it has renewed FlashForward, the TV series based on the novel of the same name by Robert J. Sawyer, for a full season. On top of the initial order of 13 episodes, another 11 will be produced this season, for a first-season total of 24. The ABC press release is here. […]
Lots of people have commented on the ways in which the TV series FlashForward has deviated from my novel of the same name upon which it is based. And, indeed, in some ways it has, but, to me, it’s still very much my story, and I’m pleased with the adaptation. For instance, last night (in […]
Fall-out, no doubt, from the wonderful launch party for the FlashForward TV series at McNally Robinson Polo Park in Winnipeg, and from my appearance promoting Wake at Thin Air: Winnipeg International Writers Festival: This week, Wake is the #5 bestselling hardcover fiction title at McNally Robinson’s Winnipeg stores, and FlashForward is the #3 bestselling mass-market […]
My novel FlashForward is set at CERN — the European Organization for Nuclear Research — and deals specifically with the Large Hadron Collider, so the breaking news — just this past hour — that a particle physicist working on the LHC at CERN has just been arrested as a possible terrorist with links to al-Qaeda […]
Monday is Canadian Thanksgiving, and CBC Radio One will be interviewing me and three other Canadian authors that afternoon, starting at 4:00 p.m. (4:30 in Newfoundland). It’s a special program of the best podcast interviews from CBC’s Online Book Club, hosted by Hannah Sung (pictured with me above). The interviews are: First half-hour:Lawrence HillMariko Tamaki […]
Star Trek History is an amazing site, now new and improved, with all sorts of things I’d never seen before from behind-the-scenes of Star Trek: The Original Series. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
The Ace Science Fiction mass-market edition of Wake will be in stores in April 2010; here’s what the cover of their edition will look like. The cover design is by Rita Frangie. Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Siteand WakeWatchWonder.com
Fascinating stuff from The Paleoantrhopology Society: Dear Fellow Paleoanthropologists: We write to bring your attention to a matter which impacts strongly on all our research. You may be aware that in recent years, there has been a push by some Quaternary stratigraphers to redefine the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary from its accepted position at ca. 1.8 Ma […]
The British edition of FlashForward (pictured above), the novel by Robert J. Sawyer upon which the new TV series is based, is a bestseller at Amazon.co.uk, the British version of Amazon.com. It’s reached at least as high as sales rank #66 of all titles in the store (and, at this moment is #81). More: it […]
A query I received in my capacity as an editor for Red Deer Press this morning began thus: I’ve got a Fiction Novel of 40,000+ words which I am trying to find a publisher for. Front cover has been designed already and it’s on it’s way for professional editing. I stopped reading after that, and […]
The TV series FlashForward, made by ABC Studios in Los Angeles, and based on Robert J. Sawyer‘s novel of the same name, has now sold to a staggering 100 territories worldwide. Recent additions: AXN (Central and Eastern Europe), AXN (Japan), Channel 1 (Russia), Fox International Channels (Russia), M-Net (Africa), Orbit Showtime (Middle East), ProSieben (Germany),TF1 […]
