Robert J. Sawyer

Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer

Archive for November, 2023

Specifications for The Six Million Dollar Man

Monday, November 27th, 2023

There doesn’t seem to be an accurate version of the specifications for cyborg Steve Austin’s bionic parts anywhere online, so I have put one together. Below are screen-accurate reproductions of the text. The only change I made from Jack Cole’s faux computer-graphic displays used in the opening credits of The Six Million Dollar Man was […]

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Friday, November 24th, 2023

Short version: Please subscribe — or re-subscribe — to my newsletter: https://robertjsawyer.substack.com Long version: the downside of being an online pioneer! I sent out my first by-email newsletter 23 years ago (announcing the publication of Calculating God). I’ve never been aggressive about building an email list, but in the almost quarter-century since then, I’d accumulated […]

Oppenheimer and the death of JFK

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023

Sixty years ago today, on November 22, 1963, American president John F. Kennedy was assassinated — an event that had a big impact on J. Robert Oppenheimer, as portrayed in this scene from my novel The Oppenheimer Alternative: From Dallas, Texas, the flash apparently official: President Kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. Central Standard Time — two o’clock […]