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ROBERT J. SAWYER
Hugo and Nebula Winner

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Below is a roundup of media coverage — blogs, podcasts, newspaper, magazines, TV, and radio — about Robert J. Sawyer's 24rd novel, The Oppenheimer Alternative, which was published on June 2, 2020.

TV and Video Interviews

• Rob on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin
• CTV Saskatoon Morning Live
• CTV Calgary News at Noon
• Rob interviewed by Doctor Who's Nicola Bryant and Star Trek Continues director James Kerwin:
  • Part 1 of 2
  • Part 2 of 2
• Rob on Stingray TV Lloydminster
• Rob on the Reality Revolution video podcast
• Rob in the Draf2Digital Spotlight
• A stroll around Rob's home
• Rob on Writers Showcase with Christie Stratos
• Rob in conversation with Peter de Jager
• Jonathan Ball interviews Rob about the writing and publishing-business decisions Rob for this novel (also available as audio only)
• Ticker Bytes on Australian TV; Rob comes on at the 13:00 minute mark
• Writers Corner Live TV
• Narrative Drive Time on the craft of storytelling
• Mark Askwith interviews Rob at BookMarkIt
• A little video of Rob introducing the real-life characters in The Oppenheimer Alternative
• Rob interviewed by The Ryersonian (also available as text)

And on the 75th Anniversary of the Birth of the Atomic Age:

• CTV Saskatoon Morning Live

Radio Interviews

• Day-of-launch interview in Alamogordo, NM, near the Trinity Test site
• Dan Skinner of Kansas Public Radio interviews Rob — a particularly good interview
• CFRB AM 1010 NewsTalkRadio Toronto with Mark Towhey
• Rob in conversation with Peter Anthony Holder on The Stuph File
• LA Talk Radio's The Writer's Block
• Long Island News Radio: Breaking it Down with Frank MacKay
• Robert J. Sawyer: A Science-Fiction Life on Spaced Out Radio — 2.5 hours of Rob!
• Mary Ito interviews Rob on CBC Radio One's Fresh Air about the world after COVID-19
• Psychologist Sara Dimerman interviews Rob

Podcasts

• Rob in conversation in with Alan B. Carr, the Official Historian of the Los Angeles National Laboratory!
• Avid Reader podcast
• Rob in conversation with mystery writer Armand Rosamilia
• GSMC Book Review interivew
• Jonathan Ball interviews Rob about the writing and publishing-business decisions Rob for this novel (also available as video)
• Afraid of Nothing podcast:
  • Part 1 of 2
  • Part 2 of 2
• Writers After Dark
• WordPlay podcast with Kristine Raymond
• Great Writers podcast with Daniel Willcocks
• Sci-Fi Saturday Night podcast
• Special edition of the Stephen King Podcast
• Leveraging Your IP and Hybrid Publishing: Rob interviewed by Mark Leslie
• The Sample Chapter podcast (skip to the 36-minute mark if you just want to hear Rob read a sample chapter)
• The Books North Podcast hosted by Eddie Generous
• The Paranormal Podcast hosted by Jim Harold

Print Interviews

• The Calgary Herald (and more than a dozen other major big-city dailies in the PostMedia chain across Canada)
• The Toronto Star: Scan from printed newspaper | Digital facsimile edition | Online (press F5 if an ad covers the display)
• Sci-Fi Bulletin
• Sci-Fi Pulse
• J.M. Northup's Book Blog
• My wife tells all to the Toronto Guardian
• George Washington University's History News Network
• In conversation with Konn Lavery
• In conversation with Anthony Avina
• Uncaged Book Review magazine
• Q&A with Facebook's Science Fiction Book Club members (PDF)
• Cover story interview with Rob in the September 2020 issue of Top Shelf magazine (also available as a web page)
• Rob interviewed by The Ryersonian (also available as video)
• Lisa Haselton ask Rob what inspired this novel
• Jera's Jamboree interviews Rob

• The Oppenheimer Alternative hits #1 on the Locus bestsellers' list
• PR Newswire: The Oppenheimer Alternative #1 Locus bestseller

Blogs

• John Scalzi's Whatever Blog
• Rob interviewed by Mike Glyer for the Hugo Award-winning File 770
• Finding Your passion (scroll down a bit for the interview with Rob
• Ten facts about The Oppenheimer Alternative at Jean Book Nerd blog

Reviews

• Review roundup
• The Maine Edge
• Steve Fanhestalk at Amazing Stories
• R. Graeme Cameron at Amazing Stories
• Analog
• Locus
• Sci-Fi Bulletin
• SFRevu
• Publishers Weekly
• Book Reviews and More

Excerpts from The Oppenheimer Alternative

• Print: SFwriter.com
• Video: Five-time Agatha Award-winning mystery writer Hank Phillippi Ryan reads the first chapter of The Oppenheimer Alternative
• Audio: The Sample Chapter podcast (skip to the 36-minute mark if you just want to hear Rob read a sample chapter)

Publisher's Ads

• Locus website main-page banner ad for all of June 2020
• Locus magazine half-page print ad from June 2020 issue
• Publishers Weekly half-page print ad from 7 September 2020 issue

More Good Reading

More about The Oppenheimer Alternative
Press release index
Rob's press kit

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