Wil McCarthy
Wil McCarthy | |
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Born | Princeton, New Jersey | September 16, 1966
Occupation | President, RavenBrick LLC |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Genre | Science fiction |
Subject | Science and technology |
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Wil McCarthy (born September 16, 1966 in Princeton, New Jersey) is a science fiction novelist, president and co-founder of RavenBrick (a solar technology company), and the science columnist for Syfy. He currently resides in Colorado.
Wil McCarthy popularized the concept of programmable matter, which he calls wellstone.
Bibliography
Novels
- Flies from the Amber. 1995. ISBN 0-451-45406-5.
- Murder in the Solid State (1996) ISBN 0-312-85938-4
- Bloom (1998) ISBN 0-345-40857-8
- Antediluvian (2019) ISBN 978-1481484312
- Rich Man's Sky (2021) ISBN 978-1-982125-29-5
- The Waisters
- Aggressor Six (1994) ISBN 0-451-45405-7
- The Fall of Sirius (1996) ISBN 0-451-45485-5
- The Queendom of Sol
- The Collapsium (2000) ISBN 0-345-40856-X—Nebula Award nominee.
- The Wellstone (2003) ISBN 0-553-58446-4
- Lost in Transmission (2004) ISBN 0-553-58447-2
- To Crush the Moon. 2005.
Short fiction
- "Amerikano Hiaika", Aboriginal Science Fiction, May/June 1991.
- "Dirtyside Down", Universe 3, 1994.
- "The Dream of Houses", Analog, November 1995. Locus recommended reading list.
- "The Dream of Castles", Analog, April 1997.
- "The Dream of Nations", Analog, October 1998. Locus recommended reading list.
- "Once Upon a Matter Crushed", Science Fiction Age, May 1999. Theodore Sturgeon Award Nominee. Locus recommended reading list. Became the first portion of The Collapsium.
- "No Job Too Small", Aboriginal Science Fiction, Spring 2001.
- "Pavement Birds", Analog, July/August 2002.
- "Garbage Day", Analog, December 2002. Became part of The Wellstone.
Non-fiction
- "Programmable Matter" (AKA "Programmable Matter: A Retrospective"), Nature, October 6, 2000. doi:10.1038/35036656.
- "Ultimate Alchemy", Wired 9.10, October 2001
- Hacking Matter (2003), ISBN 0-465-04428-X
- "This Looks Like a Job for...Superatoms", IEEE Spectrum, August 2005
Other media
Radio plays
- I Love Bees, writer
Radio appearances
- Coast to Coast AM, "Programmable Matter", April 18, 2003
- Coast to Coast AM, "Quantum Dots", April 26, 2004
Notes
- ^ Nebula Award nominee.
Categories:
- 1966 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- American science fiction writers
- American male short story writers
- American nanotechnologists
- Novelists from Colorado
- Wired (magazine) people
- 20th-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American male writers