SAWYER ON SAWYER BOOK LAUNCH

WORLDWIDE BOOK LAUNCH OF ​"SAWYER ON SCIENCE FICTION" AT ​WHEN WORDS COLLIDE

SATURDAY AUGUST 15, 2026
1:30pm-3:00pm
THOMSON SOCIAL HUB
​(Hyatt Regency Hotel, in downtown Calgary)

new! free to the public!

Join Shadowpaw Press and interviewer Richard G. Cameron as they celebrate the publication launch of Robert Sawyer's new 225,000 word career capstone nonfiction collection,  Sawyer on Science Fiction.

From speeches at the Library of Congress and Cambridge University to articles in Science and Slate, this massive 225,000-word career-capstone nonfiction collection contains incisive commentary (and divisive opinions!) about every aspect of the science-fiction genre.

From the writer that the CBC, the Ottawa Citizen, and the American Library Association all call “the Dean of Canadian Science Fiction,” you’ll hear:

• Why Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics are abhorrent
• How Star Wars ruined science fiction
• The power of SF to change the world
• Ways writers might still thrive in the age of artificial intelligence.
  

Plus, get a peek behind the curtain at how Sawyer’s own bestselling novels were written.

A member of the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario, and the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Robert Sawyer lives in Mississauga.

ROBERT J. SAWYER has won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best science-fiction novel of the year. The ABC TV series FlashForward was based on his novel of the same name, and his Quantum Night was long-listed for Canada Reads.

RICHARD GRAEME CAMERON has published the Canadian science fiction and fantasy magazine Polar Borealis, and since 2021, Polar Starlight, producing four issues of each annually. He exclusively publishes Canadian authors, poets, and artists, with a particular commitment to supporting emerging writers. Having waited 58 years before seeing one of his own novels published, he understands firsthand the challenges, perseverance, and determination required to break into the publishing world.

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