Issue No. 18 July 2001 SFWRITER.COM News From The ROBERT J. SAWYER Web Site “Just about the best science-fiction writer out there these days”–Rocky Mountain News End of an Era Back in Print eople often ask writer End of an Era tells of a Canadian Robert J. Sawyer which time-travel expedition back to the P of his science-fiction last days of the dinosaurs. novels is his favorite. And for a while now, the answer has been In its original edition, the novel won frustrating: Rob’s favorite – the Japan’s Seiun Award for Best one he enjoys the most – is the Foreign Novel of the Year and the long out-of-print End of an Era, CompuServe SF Forum’s Homer first published by Ace in 1994. Award for Best Novel of the Year.
But To r B o o k s , the world’s largest Reviews for the first edition were science-fiction publisher, is issuing a spectacular: the reviewers for the revised trade-paperback edition of Canadian publishing trade journal End of an Era in September 2001 Quill & Quire and The Edmonton with a gorgeous new wraparound Journal each separately named End cover by Hugo-winning artist Bob of an Era one of the best SF novels Eggleton. of the last ten years. ! Calculating God Paperback Released ob’s twelfth novel, Hugo Finalist! Calculating God, will be Rout in paperback in July 2001, following a very successful Calculating God is one of five hardcover run that saw the book finalists for the 2001 Hugo go through three printings and be Award, science-fiction’s top listed as a top-ten national international honor: mainstream bestseller by both • Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer Maclean’s: Canada’s Weekly • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Newsmagazine and The Globe by J. K. Rowling and Mail: Canada’s National • Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson Newspaper. • The Sky Road by Ken MacLeod • A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin The paperback, like the hardcover, The winner will be announced is published by Tor Books, New Sunday, September 2, at the York, and distributed in Canada by World Science Fiction H. B. Fenn and Company. Rob will Convention in Philadelphia. be touring Ontario and New England to launch this edition. ! WWW.SFWRITER.COM SFWRITER.COM Page 2 July 2001
SFWRITER.COM is published occasionally to spotlight news about Nebula Award-winning Canadian science- fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer. You can send e-mail to Rob at [email protected], or write to him at: Robert J. Sawyer • 100 City Centre Drive • P.O. Box 2065 • Mississauga, ON, Canada • L5B 3C6 Analog to Serialize Rob’s Next Book he world’s number-one in 1996. The book versions of both third Neanderthal Parallax bestselling science-fiction novels went on to become novels. Tor Books, which will be T magazine has bought bestsellers, both were finalists for issuing the three books in serial rights to Robert J. Sawyer’s the Hugo Award, both were finalists hardcover, hopes that many of next novel, Infinite Faculties, first for the Nebula Award (and The Analog’s 50,000 readers will snap volume in his Neanderthal Terminal Experiment won the up the second and third volumes Parallax trilogy. Nebula), and both books won when they are released in 2003. Canada’s Aurora Award. Analog Science Fiction and Fact In Infinite Faculties, a portal opens will serialize the full text of Infinite We hope that the increased profile at the Sudbury Neutrino Faculties in four parts in its caused by its serialization in Analog Observatory, a real facility in January through April 2002 issues. will boost Infinite Faculties to northern Ontario, between this similar heights. universe and a parallel one in which Rob has had two previous novels Neanderthals have developed a serialized in Analog: The Terminal We expect this serialization to technological society – but no Experiment in 1995 and Starplex particularly benefit the second and religion or belief in an afterlife.
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