Name: An Evening with Robert J. Sawyer (The Downloaded 2)
Start: 2026-05-27T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-05-27T20:00:00-05:00
Location: McNally Robinson Booksellers

An Evening with Robert J. Sawyer (The Downloaded 2)

Join Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer for the Winnipeg launch of The Downloaded 2: Ghosts in the Machine (Shadowpaw Press).
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781998273560/robert-j-sawyer/the-downloaded-2
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/GttYyku-yxY
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In this sequel to Sawyer's 2024 novel The Downloaded, an asteroid is about to slam into Earth, prompting ex-convict Roscoe Koudoulian along with Captain Letitia Garvey and her starship crew to re-upload their consciousnesses into cyberspace. In that digital realm, Roscoe is confronted by someone he left for dead centuries ago, and the astronauts face younger versions of themselves―ghosts in the machine―whose continued existence could destroy the last survivors of the human race.
Robert J. Sawyer - dubbed “the dean of Canadian science fiction” by the Ottawa Citizen and the CBC - has won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year; a record-setting 17 Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards (“Auroras”); the top science-fiction awards in China, Japan, France, and Spain; an Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada; and over 50 other national and international writing awards. He is a member of both the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario and was one of the nine initial inductees into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
The Canadian publishing trade journal Quill & Quire calls Rob one of “the most influential, innovative, and just plain powerful people in Canadian publishing,” and Maclean’s says, “By any reckoning, Sawyer is among the most successful Canadian authors ever.”
Rob’s 26 bestselling novels include Quantum Night (longlisted for Canada Reads) and FlashForward (the basis for the ABC TV series of the same name). His million-plus- word website—which The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature calls “the most elaborate and interesting of any created by a Canadian writer”—is at sfwriter.com.