Here’s a cool speech by award winning science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer prepared for Speaker’s Spotlight (www.speakers.ca). Rob talks about: Artificial Intelligence, Genetic Engineering, and Nanotechnology. Enjoy.
Click here to listen…
Posted by Jesse Willis
Hugo and Nebula award winning author Robert J.Sawyer has just announced the completion of a third pilot for the proposed weekly radio science fiction radio show FASTER THAN LIGHT. Produced by Joe Mahoney and Fergus Heywood for CBC Radio One, the half-hour long program includes:
-An interview with Julie E. Czerneda, one of Canada’s best SF writers
-A mini documentary on aliens in movies
-A short essay by Robet J. Sawyer on “the other” in science fiction
-An original full-cast radio drama based on Richard Matheson’s 1950 short story “Born of Man And Woman”!
Sounds like a real winner. The word is that if the pilot is picked up there could be as many as ten episodes of Faster Than Light broadcast over the summer! We will keep you updated as more information is available, this is really terrific news!
Posted by Jesse Willis
UPDATE: This has been moved up a day to Wednesday, January 7.
Robert J. Sawyer will be cohosting the full two hours of CBC Radio’s Toronto afternoon drive-time show “Hear and Now” with Avril Benoit on Thursday, January 8, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. “Hear and Now” is carried live on CBC Radio One Toronto, 99.1 FM, and is available through the Internet here.
Also, the radio show “Sci-Fi Overdrive” last week featured an interview with Robert J. Sawyer, and this week includes an interview with Orson Scott Card. The SciFiOverdrive website makes archived shows available for streaming.
Posted by Jesse Willis
CBC Radio One‘s pop culture media show Definitely Not the Opera has just done a delightful and lighthearted interview with Robert J. Sawyer. Here’s the link: DNTO Oct 18th 2003.
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CBC Radio One‘s science program Quirks & Quarks has also archived a panel discussion of interest, it was first broadcast March 9, 2002 and is called First Contact: What If E.T. Calls US?
Here are the links:
| Listen to MP3 of Part 1 | Listen to MP3 of Part 2 |
Posted by Jesse Willis
Congratulations Hugo winners!
The Hugo Awards for best science fiction works in 2002 were presented Saturday, August 30 at the 61th World Science Fiction Convention, Torcon 3, in Toronto, Ontario.
Best Novel: Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer (Analog 1-4/02; Tor)
Best Novella: Coraline by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
Best Novelette: “Slow Life” by Michael Swanwick (Analog 12/02)
Best Short Story Category: “Falling Onto Mars” by Geoffrey A. Landis (Analog 7-8/02)
Best Related Book: Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril, Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary
Best Dramatic Presentation: “Conversations With Dead People” (20th Century Fox Television/Mutant Enemy Inc.)Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form Category: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (New Line Cinema)
Best Professional Editor: Gardner Dozois
Best Professional Artist: Bob Eggleton
Best Semiprozine: Locus edited by Charles N. Brown, Jennifer A. Hall, and Kirsten Gong-Wong
Best Fanzine: Mimosa edited by Rich and Nicki Lynch
Best Fan Writer: Dave Langford
Best Fan Artist: Sue Mason
On audio, Gaiman’s Coraline, read by the author, is available from Harper Audio and Swanwick’s “Slow Life” is included in Audible.com‘s The Best of Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine 2002.
Posted by Scott D. Danielson
Just found on the CBC’s website:
http://www.cbc.ca/radiodrama/sundayshowcase.html
Merchandise – Radio Drama on CDFaster Than Light: Tales of Time and Imagination CD
Hosted by Robert Sawyer
Produced by Barbara Worthy and Joe Mahoney
Faster Than Light is a new science fiction magazine show and included in this evening’s lineup are two short plays by Joe Mahoney. The Cold Equations is a dramatization by Mahoney of a Tom Godwin story in which a space shuttle pilot discovers a young stowaway on board his ship. Her presence may doom his mission and he is forced to choose between its success and the young girl.
Captain’s Away is an original drama and, in this first episode, we meet Karin Kudelka – who is either an alien captain on an interstellar starship – or one of the best darn waitresses around.
Faster Than Light also includes an interview with author Nalo Hopkinson, as well as some original commentary by the evening’s host, Robert Sawyer, a well-known science fiction author.
Posted by Jesse Willis