Robert Charles Wilson

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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, 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 and Other Stories", 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". [cite news |first= James|last= Adams|authorlink= |title= Canada’s Best-Kept Secrets in the Arts|url= http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070629.woverthere0630/BNStory/Entertainment/home|work= The Globe and Mail|location = Toronto|publisher= CTVglobemedia|date= 2007-06-29|accessdate=2008-03-20 ]

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.

"Spin" is the first book of a trilogy that continues in Axis and will finish with Vortex (unfinished). "Spin" won the Hugo Award for best novel in 2006.

His novella "" (2006) was published by PS Publishing in 2007 and was a finalist for the Hugo Award. A novel-length expansion will be published in 2009.

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").
*"" (Written; forthcoming in 2009.)
*"Vortex" The yet to be published sequel to both Spin and Axis. [cite web |url=http://www.robertcharleswilson.com/news.php?id=1 |title=Robert Charles Wilson - News |accessdate=2008-04-08 |author=Robert Charles Wilson |date=September, 25 2007]

Notes

External links

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* [http://www.robertcharleswilson.com/ Robert Charles Wilson] , his personal web page.
* [http://www.geocities.com/canadian_sf/wilson/ Robert Charles Wilson] , the Made In Canada science fiction authors web page.
* [http://baronrouge.com/Perseides/BIOS.HTM BIOS ] , a Robert Charles Wilson fan page with latest news.
* [http://www.actusf.com/spip/?article3847 Actusf] , a Robert Charles Wilson interview about "Spin".

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