Canadian SF/F Panel at Loncon 3 Now Available Online
The Skiffy and Fanty Show have posted the audio of the Canadian SF/F panel at Loncon 3, featuring Hayden Trenholm (moderator), Eric Choi, Kate Heartfield, Marjolaine Lafreniere, Ira Nayman and Caitlin...
View ArticleCarbide Tipped Pens: One-on-One with Jeff Beeler at GenreCon
I will be having a one-on-one conversation with Jeff Beeler about Carbide Tipped Pens at GenreCon 2015 this Saturday, May 2nd at 1:00pm. We will be talking about the origin and creation of this new...
View ArticleScience Guest-of-Honour at Can*Con 2016
I am delighted to be the science guest-of-honour at Can*Con, which will be taking place September 9th to 11th at the Novotel Ottawa in our beautiful nation’s capital. Can*Con is one of the very best...
View ArticleOpening Keynote Speech at the 2016 Canadian Space Summit
Image Credit: Renate Pohl I was honored to have delivered the opening keynote speech last week at the 2016 Canadian Space Summit in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Here is the text of my remarks: Thank you, Wayne...
View ArticleScience and Author Guest of Honour at Ad Astra 2017
I am delighted to be a science and author guest of honour at Ad Astra 2017, which will be taking place this coming weekend at the Sheraton Parkway North Toronto. Volunteer-run, non-profit cons like Ad...
View ArticleWorldcon 75 Participation
I am excited to be a participant at the 75th World Science Fiction Convention in Helsinki, Finland, where I will be doing two panels and an autograph session. My schedule is available here.
View ArticleThree Events and Three Cities in Two Weeks!
I will be a participant at three events in three cities over the next two weeks: Speaker at the Montréal Space Symposium on October 6 Panelist at a World Space Week event at Ryerson University in...
View ArticleReturning Guest of Honour at Ad Astra 2019
I am delighted to be a returning Guest of Honour at Ad Astra 2019, which starts tomorrow at the Sheraton Parkway North in Richmond Hill, Ontario. My programming schedule can be found here.
View ArticleApollo 11 and Science Fiction on TVOntario’s “The Agenda”
This Monday, July 22nd, Robert J. Sawyer, Kim Stanley Robinson, and I will be on TVOntario’s The Agenda with host Nam Kiwanuka to talk about how the historic Apollo 11 moon landing has influenced our...
View ArticleCarbide Tipped Pens Launch — Thank You!
A big THANK YOU to many people for a terrific launch of Carbide Tipped Pens: Lorna Toolis, Annette Mocek, Donald Simmons and the Friends of the Merril Collection volunteers; the Toronto Public...
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