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Announcements:
September 24 2009 is the premier
of Flashforward, this fall's most highly
anticipated TV series, which is based on Rob's
novel of the same name.
Flashforward the series -
which has an initial 13-episode pickup from ABC - stars Joseph
Fiennes, Sonya Walger, John Cho, Jack Davenport, and Dominic
Monaghan.
Be sure to tune into the series.
July 2009: The Canadian Science
Fiction & Fantasy Association announced their nominees for
the 2009 Prix Aurora Awards. The award is for the best work of Science Fiction or Fantasy in a novel or fiction collection by an English Canadian writer, published in 2008.
My book
Identity Theft, published by
Red Deer Press, was nominated in the Best Long-Form Work In
English category.
July 15 2009:
My friend and inspiration Phyllis Gotlieb,
the only Canadian to be in SFWA at its founding, the mother of
Canadian science fiction, passed away yesterday at the age of 83
from complications related to a ruptured appendix.
Phyllis was proof of concept that you
could live in Toronto and still be a science-fiction writer for
major American publishing houses; if I hadn't had her as a role
model, I'm not sure I ever would have embarked on the career
path I took.
We'd been friends for 30 years -- I met
her in 1979 when my high-school science-fiction club had her as
guest of honour at a little convention we put on at Northview
Heights Secondary School. She was feisty and opinionated and
passionate then, and she was still all those things the last
time I saw her, not that long ago. One of my greatest
professional thrills was getting to publish her final novel,
Birthstones, in 2007.
June 2009:
The finalists for the 2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award were announced.
The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science-fiction novel of the year is one of the three major international science fiction awards given annually.
The list of six finalists included
Valley of Day-Glo by Nick
DiChario.
Nick has written two novels, the other,
A Small and Remarkable Life, was also nominated for the John
W. Campbell Memorial Award. Well done Nick!
September 19, 2008: it was announced that the TV rights to Robert J. Sawyer's science-fiction novel
Flashforward have been sold to ABC for a new series. I will serve as consultant on the pilot,
and on each episode of any subsequent series; as well I will also write a first-season episode.
Upcoming appearances:
September 20-27, 2009
(Specific dates to be announced)
Readings
Thin Air: Winnipeg International Writers Festival
Winnipeg, Manitoba
www.thinairwinnipeg.ca
Join Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Charles Wilson and
Nick DiChario, reading together on the same night
in Winnipeg.
September
23, 2009
Robert J. Sawyer - Speaker
Big Ideas: The SF Reality Check
Join Rob for a discussion of how science fiction lets us
explore the burning issues of today...in the guise of talking
about tomorrow.
Free Event!
Millennium Library,
251 Donald Street, Carol Shields Auditorium
Winnipeg, Manitoba
September
24, 2009
Robert J.
Sawyer
TV Premiere: Presenting FlashForward
Join Robert for the premiere! He'll offer a brief set-up at 6:30,
show-time at 7:00.
After the show Rob will be signing
books and chatting with attendees.
McNally Robinson, Polo Park,
1485 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Sunday September 27, 2009
Meet the Authors!
Word on the Street
Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario
www.thewordonthestreet.ca
Come and meet Robert J. Sawyer and Terence M.
Green
at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers
booth — Rob and Terry will be on hand all day long!
October 2-4, 2009
Robert J. Sawyer - Program Participant
VCON 34
Vancouver, British Columbia
http://www.vcon.ca
October 23-25, 2009
Robert J. Sawyer - Presenter
Surrey International Writer's Conference
Surrey (Vancouver), British Columbia
http://www.siwc.ca
November 6-8, 2009
Robert J. Sawyer - Program Participant
Astronomicon
Rochester, New York
www.astronomicon.info
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