The Chronic Rift interviews Robert J. Sawyer

The Chronic Rift: Spotlight on Robert J. Sawyer. Check it out. (35 minutes MP3.)

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"Come All Ye Faithful" now a free podcast

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 terrific.

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CBC Radio loves the Robman

On Saturday, September 26, 2009, I was interviewed on CBC Radio One's pop-culture program Definitely Not the Opera, hosted by Sook-Yin Lee (above in 2007, with Robert J. Sawyer), in an interview recorded at Thin Air: Winnipeg International Writers' Festival.

On Monday, September 28, 2009, I was interviewed on CBC Radio One's Q, hosted by Jian Ghomeshi (below, photographed today with Rob).

And earlier this month, on Saturday, September 5, 2009, I was interviewed on CBC Radio One's The Next Chapter, hosted by Shelagh Rogers.

All three interviews were about my novel FlashForward, and the hit ABC TV series based on it -- and all three interviews are now online as MP3 files:

• CBC Radio's DNTO interviews Rob (6 minutes)
  
  
• CBC Radio's Q interviews Rob (14 minutes)
  
  
• CBC Radio's The Next Chapter interviews Rob (12 minutes)
  

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The differences between writing for print and screen

The Dragon Page interviews me about the differences between writing for print and writing for television and film. It's a good, meaty interview, and you can listen right here.

We talk about the current adaptation of The Time Traveler's Wife, about Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, about House, about The Simpsons, about the new Battlestar Galactica, and of course about FlashForward. And at the end, we talk about my new novel Wake.

I come in at the 16 minutes 0 seconds mark, and go to almost the end of the show, 43 minutes 8 seconds mark.

(The book I recommend during the interview is Writing the TV Drama Series: How to Succeed as a Professional Writer in TV by Pamela Douglas.)

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Slice of SciFi interviews RJS

The podcast Slice of SciFi interviews Robert J. Sawyer this week; you can listen here.

I come in at 31 minutes 0 seconds, and go to 46 minutes 30 seconds.

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Paul Levinson podcasts RJS

Paul Levinson -- himself a very fine SF writer, and the author of The Plot to Save Socrates -- interviews me for 36 minutes on his podcast Light On Light Through about FlashForward.

You can listen here.

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Hour of the Wolf interviews RJS

The long-running New York science-fiction radio program Hour of the Wolf recorded an interview with Robert J. Sawyer at Readercon in July 2009, and it aired on Saturday, September 12. You can listen to an MP3 of the broadcast right here.

I come on at 27 minutes and 20 seconds mark and run all the way to the 1 hour 43 minutes and 30 seconds mark. The host is Jim Freund.

Topics: why I gave up writing short fiction, my mission statement as a writer, the FlashForward TV series, why there are not many scientists on TV, my new novel Wake (including me doing a reading from the book), and more.

(The terrific theme music is from the 1972 movie Silent Running, always one of my favourites.)

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Book Banter podcasts Rob

Book Banter, a podcast produced by Alex C. Telander of Sacramento, interviews Robert J. Sawyer, talking about his novel Wake.

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Hardcore Nerdity interviews Rob

Adrienne Kress, Robert J. Sawyer, Lesley Livingston
Yes, my job is way better than your job  ... ;)
Lesley Livingston of the wonderful website Hardcore Nerdity interviewed me just before the start of my Toronto book launch for Wake on Thursday, April 30, 2009 -- and now our conversation is online as a podcast right here (runtime: 15 minutes, 27 seconds).

Lesley, by the way, is an author in her own right; her new novel is the great YA fantasy Wondrous Strange.

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SciFiDimensions podcasts Rob

The terrific online SF magazine SciFi Dimensions has a meaty podcast interview with Robert J. Sawyer right here. Among other things, we talk about my new novel Wake, the forthcoming Flash Forward TV series, and author Nick DiChario, whom I publish under my Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint.

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"On the Edge" podcasts RJS

Marie Bilodeau of Canadian publisher EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy interviewed me at the World Fantasy Convention in Calgary on Sunday, November 2, 2008 -- and the interview has just gone live. It lasts 14 minutes and talks about my experiences co-editing the anthology Tesseracts 6, my advice for writers marketing manuscripts, what I think is the central theme of Canadian SF (consciousness!), and my new novel Wake. Have a listen!.

On the Edge with Robert J. Sawyer (MP3)

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