Pages Tagged “Robert J. Sawyer”
Reviews
- Calculating God
★★★★☆
Robert J. Sawyer
What if there is scientific evidence out there for a supreme being, but to find it you have to correlate knowledge from multiple inhabited worlds across the galaxy? - The Downloaded
★★★★☆
Robert J. Sawyer
A short, fast tale of frozen people reawakening after the fall of civilization, built around the premise that you need to keep a frozen person’s consciousness active in VR, and there are very different reasons you might put people into cryo storage and a simulation. Not a lot of plot, mainly concepts and character studies. - Flash Forward (TV Pilot) ★★★★★ The first episode of Flash Forward is one of the best-constructed pilot episodes I’ve seen in a long time, especially of an arc-driven series.
- Flashforward (Novel)
A fascinating exploration of time, destiny and free will after everyone on Earth gets a glimpse of the same moment 20 years in the future. - Quantum Night
★★★★☆
Robert J. Sawyer
Intriguing premise, well explored: Quantum entanglement, psychopaths, and mob behavior. Can we reboot humanity amid a rising tide of xenophobia? - Triggers
★★★☆☆
Robert J. Sawyer
It’s an interesting take on memory and identity, but not one of Sawyer’s best.
Blog Posts
- Predictive Frameshift
I’ve been thinking a lot about Robert J. Sawyer’s Quantum Night the last few months. It links human cruelty, psychopathy, and mob behavior to the nature of consciousness, mostly focusing on the main characters but playing out against a global crisis brought on by a rising tide of xenophobia. More recently, I’ve been thinking about […]
- Les Mis Break: From Paris to Mars for Red Planet Blues
This week I’m taking a break from my epic Les Miserables re-read for Robert J Sawyer’s latest, Red Planet Blues: a sci-fi hard-boiled detective yarn. Talk about contrast.
- Rereading FlashForward
I’ve been re-reading Robert J. Sawyer’s original Flashforward novel…for obvious reasons. It’s been interesting to compare the TV adaptation…
- Flash Forward Looks Incredible (Comic-Con)
They showed 2 acts of the pilot at Comic-Con, and it looks great. Different from the book, but they’re adapting the concept, not the story.
- Being a Nexus – Comic-Con Bursting at the Seams
Comic-Con is spilling out into the city of San Diego with a massive media blitz, but what about us is so appealing to the Hollywood marketing crowd?
- Friday at Comic-Con
Pancake House, Read or Die cosplay, Sci-fi writers Connie Willis and Robert J Sawyer, Humor in Sci-Fi, the Field, and running into people we know.
- Sci-Tech Links
Scientists have built a computer model of the Neanderthal vocal tract based on fossils, and have simulated the kinds of sounds they could have produced. Ever since I read Robert J. Sawyer’s Neanderthal Parallax novels, I’ve been fascinated by the idea that there were two distinct human species, living side by side, for perhaps thousands […]