I’m in tears right now. Terence M. Green passed away yesterday at 77 after a long battle with cancer. Terry was my mentor and, for 43 years, since 1982, one of my very best friends. Terry was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for his novels Shadow of Ashland (1997) and A Witness to Life […]
New ebook edition of my Hugo Award-nominated ROLLBACK in all markets worldwide! Wonderful new cover by Bibliofic Designs. “Rollback gets my vote as SF novel of the year. A joy to read.” —Jack McDevitt Canadian radio astronomer Dr. Sarah Halifax decoded the first-ever transmission received from aliens. Thirty-eight years later, a second message is received—and […]
Today’s the day! My twenty-sixth novel The Downloaded 2: Ghosts in the Machine just had its worldwide debut as an audiobook on Audible. As with the original The Downloaded, the lead narrator is Academy Award-winner Brendan Fraser. If your Audible account includes Plus Catalog, then The Downloaded 2: Ghosts in the Machine is free — no need to use up an Audible credit (otherwise, […]
My 2016 Aurora Award-winning novel Quantum Night tells of a psychopathic US president using a trumped-up (ha!) excuse to invade Canada. “Uncomfortably close to present-day fears.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review denoting a book of exceptional merit) “Sawyer’s most blatantly Canadian book, an almost forensic examination of the cultural and political differences between Canada and its […]
Forty years ago, at the end of 1984, I put together this roundup of the year’s Canadian achievements in science fiction and fantasy. It was published in The Bakka Bookie Sheet, the newsletter of Toronto’s Bakka: A Science Fiction Bookstore. === John Robert Colombo‘s Canadian Literary Landmarks (Hounslow, December) contains many references to writers of the […]
Ahmed A. Khan sent me a scan of a reader’s letter published in the May 1997 issue of Analog Science Fiction & Fact magazine about my novel Starplex, which was serialized in four parts in that magazine before being published by Ace; I don’t believe I’d ever seen this letter before: ================= Dear Analog: I […]
The Canadian publishing trade journal Quill & Quire just reported that Sharon Fitzhenry, the CEO and majority shareholder of Canadian publishing company and book distributor Fitzhenry & Whiteside, passed away on August 26, 2023, at the age of 73. Sharon and I had worked together since 2005, when she acquired the smaller Calgary-based Red Deer […]
Ten years ago today, on September 13, 2013, the biggest and best academic conference about Canadian science fiction ever held began. McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, hosted the three-day conference entitled “Science Fiction: The Interdisciplinary Genre — A Conference in Honour of Robert J. Sawyer’s Archival Donation to the University Library Collections.” My archives, which […]
Yesterday, my great friend John Robert Colombo (pictured on the right with me at the 2009 Worldcon in Montreal) was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. I was one of those who nominated him; this was my nominating letter: It is my privilege and honour to nominate John Robert Colombo […]
I have a metric ton of programming at Pemmi-con, the North American Science Fiction Convention, which starts in four days in Winnipeg, including a joint session with my old pal paleontologist Phil Currie (pictured). Come join me at these events: Welcome to Canada Format: Panel 20 Jul 2023, Thursday 10:00 – 11:15, Charleswood B (Delta […]
Forty years ago this month, when I was 22, my great friend Ted Bleaney and I put on NorthStar, the first-ever conference on Canadian science fiction. I’ll be in South Dakota on September 25, which is the actual 40th anniversary of this event, so I’m posting about it today. Our Guest of Honour was Donald […]
