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Robert Charles Wilson
Wilson in 2010
Born (1953-12-15) December 15, 1953 (age 72)
California, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
SpouseSharry Wilson
Children2
Writing career
Years active1985-present
GenreScience fiction
Websiterobertcharleswilson.com

Robert Charles Wilson (born December 15, 1953)[1] is an American-Canadian science fiction author.

Career

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Wilson's first publication, "Equinocturne", appeared in the February 1975 issue of Analog Science Fiction, under the name Bob Chuck Wilson.

His early novels were published between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s and received nominations for the Philip K. Dick Award and the Aurora Award for Best Novel. In 1995, Mysterium won the Philip K. Dick Award for best original paperback, and in 1996 he won the Aurora Award for Best Short Fiction for "The Perseids".

Starting in 1998, many of his books (including Darwinia, Blind Lake, and the Spin trilogy) have been edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden of Tor Books.

In 2000, his first collection of short stories was published, The Perseids and Other Stories, set in Toronto.

In 2005, he published his best known novel, Spin, the first in a trilogy that continued with Axis (2007) and Vortex (2011). Spin won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2006[2] and was included in the Tor Essentials series in 2020.[3]

In 2007, author Stephen King called Wilson "probably the finest science-fiction author now writing".[4][5]

Wilson's literary agent is Shawna McCarthy and his most recent novel, Last Year, was published December 6, 2016.

Personal life

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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, California, 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, a neighbourhood of Vaughan, Ontario located north of Toronto. He has two sons, Paul and Devon.

Awards and honours

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Bibliography

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Novels

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  • A Hidden Place (Bantam Spectra, 1986)
  • Memory Wire (Bantam Spectra, 1988)
  • Gypsies (Doubleday, 1989)
  • The Divide (Doubleday, 1990)
  • A Bridge of Years (Doubleday, 1991)
    • Nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award for best original paperback, 1991[9]
  • The Harvest (Bantam Spectra, 1993)
  • Mysterium (Bantam Spectra, 1994)
    • Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award for best original paperback, 1994[6]
  • Darwinia (Tor, 1998)
    • Nominated for the Hugo and Locus SF Awards for Best Novel, 1999[10]
  • Bios (Tor, 1999)
  • The Chronoliths (Tor, 2001)
    • Winner of the Campbell Award, nominated for the Hugo and Locus SF Awards for Best Novel, 2001[11]
  • Blind Lake (Tor, 2003)
    • Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, 2004[12]
  • Magic Time: Ghostlands (2004, with Marc Scott Zicree)
  • Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (Tor, 2009)
    • Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, 2010[13]
  • Burning Paradise (Tor, 2013)
  • The Affinities (Tor, 2015)
  • Last Year (Tor, 2016)

Spin series

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  • Spin (Tor, 2005)
    • Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, nominated for Campbell and Locus SF Awards, 2006[2]
    • On 2006-10-12 won the Geffen Award as the Best Translated SF Novel in Israel for 2006.
    • In 2007 won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis as the Best Foreign Fiction of the Year for 2006.
    • In 2009 won the Seiun Award as the Best Foreign Language Novel of the Year in Japan for 2008.
  • Axis (Tor, 2007)
    • Nominated for the John W. Campbell Award, 2008[14]
  • Vortex (Tor, 2011)
    • A Spin and Axis sequel[15] published on July 5, 2011[16]

Short stories and novellas

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Nonfiction

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  • Owning the Unknown: A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God (2023)

Anthology

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  • Tesseracts Ten with Edo van Belkom (2006)

Critical studies, reviews and biography

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  • West, Michelle (Jun 2000). "[Review of 'Bios']". Musing on Books. F&SF. 98 (6): 41–46. Archived from the original on December 27, 2004. Retrieved 2016-02-18.

References

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  1. ↑ "Robert Charles Wilson: The Cosmic and the Intimate (interview)". Locus. 62 (6): 6–7, 66–67. June 2009. ISSN 0047-4959.
  2. 1 2 3 "2006 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  3. ↑ "Spin". Tor Publishing Group. 2023-11-10. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. ↑ "Where haven't we seen you before?". The Globe and Mail. 2009-07-24. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  5. ↑ Adams, James (2007-06-29). "Canada's Best-Kept Secrets in the Arts". The Globe and Mail. Toronto: CTVglobemedia. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
  6. 1 2 "1994 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  7. ↑ "2002 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  8. ↑ "1986 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  9. ↑ "1991 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  10. ↑ "1999 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  11. ↑ "2001 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  12. ↑ "2004 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  13. ↑ "2010 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2010-11-16.
  14. ↑ "2008 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  15. ↑ Robert Charles Wilson (September 25, 2007). "Robert Charles Wilson - News". Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
  16. ↑ "Locus Online: Forthcoming books". Retrieved 2010-09-28.

Further reading

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