Robert Charles Wilson

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other persons named Robert Wilson, see Robert Wilson (disambiguation).

Robert Charles Wilson (born 1953) is a contemporary science fiction author.

Wilson was born in the United States in California, but grew up near Toronto, Ontario. Apart from another short period in the early 1970s spent in Whittier, CA, he has lived most of his life in Canada, and in 2007 he became a Canadian citizen. He resided for a while in Nanaimo, British Columbia and briefly in Vancouver. Currently he lives with his wife Sharry in Concord, Ontario, just north of Toronto. He has two sons, Paul and Devon.

His work has won the Hugo Award (for the novel Spin), the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for the novel The Chronoliths), the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for the novelette "The Cartesian Theater"), three Aurora Awards (for the novels Blind Lake and Darwinia, and the short work "The Perseids"), and the Philip K. Dick Award (for the novel Mysterium).

In addition to the novels listed below, he is the author of the short-story collection The Perseids, set in Toronto. His first publication appeared in the February 1975 issue of Analog Science Fiction, under the name Bob Chuck Wilson.

A literate and thoughtful writer, he combines sensitive, nuanced characterization with mind-bogglingly big hard-SF ideas, resulting in his books often being New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Author Stephen King has called Wilson "probably the finest science-fiction author now writing".^[1]

Wilson's literary agent is Shawna McCarthy, and his most recent books (including Blind Lake, Spin, and Axis) have been edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden of Tor Books.

His novella Julian: A Christmas Story (2006) was published by PS Publishing and was nominated for a Hugo Award. Wilson's current project (2007) is expanding Julian into a novel, under contract to Tor Books.

[edit] Novels

A Hidden Place (1986)
Memory Wire (1987)
Gypsies (1988)
The Divide (1990)
A Bridge of Years (1991)
The Harvest (1992)
Mysterium (1994)
Darwinia (1998)
Bios (1999)
The Chronoliths (2001)
Blind Lake (2003)
Spin (2005)
- On 2006-08-30 won the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
- On 2006-10-12 won the Geffen Award as the Best Translated SF Novel in Israel for 2006
Axis (2007 publication, first of two planned sequels to Spin).
Vortex The yet to be published sequel to both Spin and Axis.^[2]