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November 30, 2009

British edition of Wake now available!

My UK publisher, Gollancz (an imprint of Orion), has just released the British edition of Wake, the first volume of my WWW trilogy. It's in paperback over there (the North American paperbacks come out at the end of March 2010). Woohoo!
"Sawyer's take on theories about the origin of consciousness, generated within the framework of an engaging story, is fascinating, and his approach to machine consciousness and the Internet is surprisingly fresh." —Booklist

"Sawyer continues to push the...
0 comments Published on November 30, 2009 16:35
CityTV interviews RJS about Terminator Salvation

Check it out! (8-minute video).

Terminator Salvation comes out on Blu-ray and DVD tomorrow.

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November 29, 2009

Pithy tweets
My friend Virginia O'Dine put me on to a great Twitter feed called "Shit My Dad Says," from Justin, who says, "I'm 29. I live with my 73-year-old dad. He is awesome. I just write down shit that he says." And, I gotta say, his dad is very funny and very wise. No wonder he has 870,000 followers. Check it out.

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0 comments Published on November 29, 2009 21:23
Basics of book design
Okay, I gotta say it. You folks who are designing your own books: there are some simple rules you should follow.

1) the first page of a chapter does not have a page header

2) blank pages have no page headers

3) don't put extra space between paragraphs

4) the first paragraph of a chapter is not indented, and usually has special typographic treatment (a large initial capital, the first few words in small caps, etc.)

5) the first paragraph of a new scene is not indented

6) don't put some horrendous g...
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Fan letter of the day
Carolyn, who handles my little eBay book business (through which I sell autographed copies of my books), received this email today:
By the way, I'm reading Wake at the moment and absolutely loving it. It's rare to find a book that works at so many levels: compelling narrative, philosophically and intellectually interesting, fantastic characterisation. I'm new to Robert's work and have come via the television version of FlashForward. It's good to find some really good Sci Fi.
W00t!
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November 28, 2009

Star Trek opening-credits mashups
I'm a huge fan of the dying art of TV opening credits; my hero growing up was Jack Cole (who did The Six Million Dollar Man, The Night Stalker, The Incredible Hulk, The Bionic Woman, Planet of the Apes, Ironside, The Rockford Files, Ellery Queen, and others).

Here are some cool mashups for various Star Trek series, creating new title sequences set to the theme music of other shows:

First Set

Second Set

Enjoy!
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November 27, 2009

The reading of Earthfall
I very much enjoyed the WILDsound staged reading at the National Film Board theatre of my TV pilot script for a proposed series called Earthfall</i> tonight.

The cast and the narrator (who read the stage directions) did a great job, but the script had been redacted (to my surprise) with the vast majority of the stage directions omitted -- which might have been fine if the actors had actually been fully acting out the scenes, rather than just by and large reading into microphones on stands. Maybe ...
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Phyllis Gotlieb honoured today in Canada's Federal Parliament

My great friend and inspiration Phyllis Gotlieb passed away earlier this year, and today Mauril Bélanger, a Member of Canada's Federal Parliament, rose in the House of Commons to speak to that loss:
Hon. Mauril Bélanger (Ottawa—Vanier, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, this past summer, Canada lost one of its pioneers in science fiction writing, Phyllis Gotlieb, born Phyllis Bloom, in Toronto, in 1926.

The Sunburst Award, an award given annually to Canadian writers of speculative fiction, is named after her ...
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