Now available, Book II of Virga: Queen of Candesce, in which an amoral princess wines,
dines, swindles and slays her way from slavery to escape in the ancient nation of Spyre.
Available now, the first book in the Virga universe: a far-future steam-punk space opera (with pirates!):
Available from Red Deer Press, my short story collection The Engine of Recall.Quill & Quire
has reviewed it.
Engine is part of the Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint. Read a free sample story from the collection!
Permanence was awarded Best English Long Form (novel) in the 2003 Aurora Awards!
The novel was also shortlisted for the 2003 Sunburst Award and made the Locus Magazine2002 Recommended Reading List.
(Hardcover collector's edition)
My New York Times Notable Book Ventus is also available in mass market paperback. ($7.99 retail price)
Also available is my first novel, The Claus Effect, a wicked satire about the cold war and
everything that's wrong with Christmas.
The Claus Effect was written with David Nickle. Click the cover above for more information.
Cory Doctorow and I wrote The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction.
You can still find copies, but it's becoming a collector's item: one copy recently sold on Amazon for $75.
Posted on Friday January 18, @07:39AM
New Scientist has a neat article about drinking beverages in freefall. A Canadian researcher has figured out a geometry for a container that you can sip in space the way you sip a cup of coffee on Earth. I'm calling it the helix glass, and will definitely use it as one of those little scenic details in The Sunless Countries. Read More...
Posted on Friday January 18, @06:42AM
Spam is killing me. I normally get about 200 spam emails a day, and just this morning I discovered that my ISP's spam filter went nuts some indeterminate time ago, and began randomly designating important emails as spam--meaning that I've lost a LOT of communications in recent months without knowing it. Read More...
Posted on Tuesday January 15, @01:14PM
I'm continuing to keep tabs on the investigation of Robert Bussard's inertial electrostatic confinement fusion system. The latest news comes courtesy of Alan Boyle's Cosmic Log over at MSNBC: the WB7 device has been constructed, and they've started work. Read More...
Posted on Tuesday January 08, @08:28AM
As reported at the excellent astro site Centauri Dreams, a new paper suggests if that Jupiter's moon Europa does have a subsurface ocean, then that ocean is probably highly oxygenated--i.e., breathable by terrestrial fish. Read More...
Posted on Monday January 07, @09:04AM
I'll be attending High Voltage ConFusion January 18-20, at the Troy Marriott in Michigan. This is one of my favourite cons, and I'm looking forward to reconnecting with a lot of old friends at this one. My schedule is as follows: Read More... 1 comment
Posted on Monday November 05, @08:22AM
SoS has made the Locus Bestsellers list. This is a list that tracks the SF/Fantasy marketplace in particular. The data are from August, less than a month after the book was released; and as far as I know, sales have remained pretty steady ever since. Read More...
Posted on Thursday November 01, @06:10AM
This isn't a formal party, but since I'll be in Vancouver on the weekend, I'm intending to drop by White Dwarf Books to sign some stock. If you're in the neighbourhood and want to see me, just drop by! Read More...
Posted on Tuesday October 30, @10:09AM
Nice title, huh? The Canadian prairies are a pretty happenin' place these days; Janice just got back from a trip home to Regina, and there's a huge job and real estate boom happening there. What caught my attention this past week, though, was news of how the University of Saskatchewan's ribbon climber just missed bringing home the 2007 Space Elevator Games first prize. Read More...
Posted on Tuesday October 23, @02:18PM
Jim Hall over at Cult Pop interviewed me a couple of times last year, and the videos are now online. These are great interviews, not least because he's also spent time with Tobias Buckell, John Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear and put those interviews online as well. Thanks, Cult Pop! Read More...
Posted on Tuesday October 16, @08:29AM
It's no secret that Cory Doctorow and I are pals, so a review of Queen of Candesce in Boing Boing shouldn't be too surprising (though I didn't request it and Cory wouldn't post something like this if he didn't really like the book). What is noteworthy is the extraordinarily lucid description Cory gives of what this book is about; he should have written the jacket copy (not that I'm complaining about that). Read More...
I rant and rave in two locations aside from this one. First, I'm posting over at the Canada page
of WorldChanging.com. I'm doing advocacy and education
about the climate crisis and the rational, profitable and socially acceptable ways that we'll solve it. Not
because I'm an environmentalist per se, but as an outgrowth of my foresight studies work.
Secondly, I have a philosophical blog at
Age
of Embodiment. Age of Embodiment is a forum for commentary on what I
see as a massive cultural change that's sweeping towards us: the end of the Modern/Postmodern age,
and the beginning of a new era. This blog is all about what we'll see when we finally
finish healing the climate-change crisis, and raise our heads blinking to gaze on the new world.
"A novel of high ambition executed with the talent and imagination to match." --Scifi.com
"Schroeder continues to improve his unique blend of hard sf and vivid, dreamlike prose and bids fair to become a major genre voice." --Booklist
"Head-snappingly cool SF."
--SF Site
For Ventus:
"Deeply Satisfying" --New York Times Book Review
"The finest science fiction novel of the year 2000." --Barnes&Noble.com editorial review
"Delightful and engaging, both intellectually and viscerally: a superb achievement." --Kirkus
For Permanence:
"A feast of argument, a powerful Space Opera of Ideas" --Locus
"Thoughtful, well-informed, insightful work, with a sharp yet subtle political subcontext." --Kirkus
"Schroeder's excellent novel is the best kind of coming-of-age tale" --Booklist
Update: 07/11 09:39
Upcoming Appearances
Sunday, September 30, The Word on the Street, at Queen's Park
in Toronto. I'll be signing, selling, and shaking hands for three hours; between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. at the SFWA booth.
Capclave, Washington, DC, October 12-14, 2007.
ConFusion, Troy, Michigan, January 18-20, 2008.
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