Science Fiction Writer
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Hugo and Nebula Award Winner

Audio Index

Rollback

Audio Interviews with Rob about Rollback:

CBC Radio One's Sounds Like Canada with Shelagh Rogers (24 minutes)
Peter Anthony Holder of Montreal talk-radio CJAD (20 minutes)
Bookbits (25 minutes)
Adventures is Scifi Publishing (Rob starts at 3:30 and goes to 21:15)
Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute (Rob starts at 32:45)
The Dragon Page (Rob starts at 17:20)
Special Bonus: Rob's audio pitch for Rollback, prepared for the sales force of H.B. Fenn, Tor's Canadian distributor (3 minutes)

Hominids

Hear Rob interviewed about Hominids on the long-running SF radio program Hour 25 (Rob is on the Friday, June 21, 2002, edition, available online).

Hear Rob read from Hominids as part of SciFiAudio

The Terminal Experiment

The Terminal Experiment is available as an unabridged book on cassette tape by Recorded Books.

Hear a sample of Paul Hecht reading from The Terminal Experiment on the Recorded Books website.

Illegal Alien

I've known Toronto radio producer Peter Reynolds for fifteen years — he's one of the best in the business. In December 1997, Peter produced two RealAudio clips of me, and, with his kind permission, I'm offering them here. You'll need a RealAudio player attached to your web browser in order to hear these.

An interview with Robert J. Sawyer conducted in December 1997 by Toronto radio producer Peter Reynolds (3 minutes, 36 seconds; 422 kilobytes).
Rob reading from his ninth novel Illegal Alien, recorded in December 1997 by Toronto radio producer Peter Reynolds (3 minutes, 16 seconds; 381 kilobytes).

To set the scene, please read this brief introduction first:

Illegal Alien is a courtroom drama with an extraterrestrial defendant. An alien from Alpha Centauri named Hask is accused of murdering Cletus Calhoun, the host of the popular PBS astronomy series Great Balls of Fire! Before he can stand trial, it first must be determined whether he is psychologically fit. Toward that end, his defense team, including prominent African-American civil-rights attorney Dale B. Rice and Frank Nobilio, the science advisor to the U.S. president, arrange for him to be examined by a forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Lloyd Penney. Listen now as author Robert J. Sawyer reads the scene in which Dr. Penney interviews the alien, Hask . . .

How to Write

Rob's lecture on "Point of View" from Odyssey: The Fantasy Writing Workshop in 2006
Rob's lecture on "Is your SF element extraneous?" from Odyssey: The Fantasy Writing Workshop in 2006
A 37-minute podcast produced by Tee Morris featuring Rob discussing what authors can do to help market their science fiction and fantasy books

About Science Fiction

Rob's lecture on "Science Fiction as a Mirror for Reality" presented at the University of Waterloo in 2007
Fiona Kelleghan's paper "The Intimately Human and the Grandly Cosmic: Humor and the Sublime in the Works of Robert J. Sawyer" from the 2008 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (MP3)
Fiona Kelleghan's paper "Time and the Fiction of Robert J. Sawyer: Flash Forward to the End of an Era" from the 2009 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (MP3)

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Science Fiction Writer ROBERT J. SAWYER Hugo and Nebula Award Winner