Robert J. Sawyer

Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer

Archive for January, 2022

What my Patreon patrons got in January 2022

Monday, January 31st, 2022

Here’s what my US$3-and-up patrons got on Patreon in January 2022: Video: my TEDx talk “To Live Forever — Or Die Trying” Audio: the first of three hour-long episodes of “Other Worlds, Other Minds: A Science Fiction Odyssey,” a documentary series I wrote and narrated in 1985 featuring in this episode interviews with Spider Robinson, […]

Trying out Facebook advertising

Sunday, January 30th, 2022

Trying out a little Facebook advertising for my latest novel, The Oppenheimer Alternative; we’ll see how it goes. This ad will run for the next week aimed at people 18 years and older in the US who have selected “science fiction magazines” and/or “hard science fiction” as areas of interest. The link goes to the […]

Star Trek TOS season 3

Saturday, January 29th, 2022

Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3, submitted as defense exhibits one through five: How compact your bodies are, and what a variety of senses you have! This thing you call language, though — most remarkable. You depend on it for so very much, but is any one of you really its master? But most […]

R.I.P., J. Brian Clarke

Monday, January 17th, 2022

One of the greats of Canadian science fiction has left us. Calgary’s own J. Brian Clarke, born May 23, 1928, who used to often appear in Analog, passed away on December 17, 2021, at the age of 93; his son James just wrote me with the news. Brian was the inaugural winner of the A.E. Van Vogt […]