Robert J. Sawyer

Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer

Remembering Michael Lennick

Thursday, November 7th, 2024

Every Canadian of my generation knows the line, “I told him, Julie, don’t go!” It was said by Sylvia Lennick, the mother of my dear friend, the great Canadian filmmaker and special-effects expert Michael Lennick. Michael passed away ten years ago today, on November 7, 2014, at just 61 years of age. He’d been admitted […]

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R.I.P., Phil Donahue

Monday, August 19th, 2024

I was very sad to hear of the death of former talkshow host Phil Donahue, who left us today at the age of 88. I was a regular viewer of Donahue in the 1980s and 1990s because he so often tackled big issues. And so, when I was writing my novel The Terminal Experiment — […]

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