Off On A Tangent - more interview fun with award-winning novelist Robert J. Sawyer (episode 42 of the podcast)

Time for another regular episode of the podcast, and this time we have more interview goodness from the Hugo- and Nebula-winning SF writer Robert J. Sawyer. We had so much fun talking to Rob about his new novel The Downloaded (see episode 40) that we decided to gather up our more general discussion into a separate segment. So here you will hear talk of Planet of the Apes, science fiction conferences, and much much more.

We also have a mostly Star Trek quiz, but with a few Star Wars questions thrown in to trip Phil up.

And the usual recommendations of past/present/future SF.

Some of the items discussed in the episode: 

• Robert J. Sawyer's website, with its appropriate URL: sfwriter.com
• The Audible version of The Downloaded (US - UK - Canada)
  
• The print versions of The Downloaded (Amazon US - Amazon UK - Amazon Canada)
• Stalker (1979 film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky) based on the novel Roadside Picnic (1972) by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
• BBC Radio's Crowd Science episode, which calculates how many humans have ever lived. Spoiler alert: the result is consistent with what Arthur C. Clarke said in the opening paragraph of his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey.

 

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