Robert Reed (author)

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Robert Reed
Born (1956-10-09) October 9, 1956 (age 64)
Omaha, Nebraska
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Period1986–present
GenreScience Fiction, Fantasy
Website
www.robertreedwriter.com

Robert David Reed (born October 9, 1956 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a Hugo Award-winning American science fiction author.[1] He has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the Nebraska Wesleyan University.[1] Reed is an "extraordinarily prolific"[1] genre short-fiction writer with "Alone" being his 200th professional sale. His work regularly appears in Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Sci Fiction. He has also published eleven novels. As of 2010, Reed lived in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife and daughter.[1]

Awards[]

He was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction in 1987.

Bibliography[]

Marrow Series[]

  1. Marrow (2000)
  2. The Well of Stars (2004)
  3. The Greatship (2013) (collection)
  4. The Memory of Sky (2014)
  5. The Dragons of Marrow (2018)

Novels[]

Collections[]

Chapbooks[]

  • (2004) (Set in the world of the Great Ship/Marrow)
  • (2006)

Stories[]

1988
  • "The Bird Looking In"
1989
  • "Oort Cloud"
  • "Totipotent"
1990
  • "Busybody"
  • "Chaff" [Lc1991 n]
  • "Bushwhacker"
  • "" [Hu1991 n] [Lc1991 n]
1991
  • "Pipes" [Lc1992 n]
1992
  • "After All"
  • "Birth Day"
  • "Burger Love"
  • "Coffins"
1993
  • "On the Brink of that Bright New World"
  • "Do I Know You?"
  • "Blind"
  • ""
  • "The Toad of Heaven"
  • "Migration Patterns"
  • "Fable Blue"
  • "Sister Alice" [Ar1994 n] [Hu1994 x] [Lc1994 n]
  • "To Know Each Other All the Better"
1994
  • "Treasure Buried"
  • ""
  • "The Shape of Everything"
  • "Stride" [Hu1995 x] [Lc1995 n]
  • "The Dimensions of the Deed"
  • "" [Ar1996 n] [Hu1996 x] [Lc1996 n]
1995
  • "Dreams from a Severed Heart"
  • "We Are All Superheroes"
  • "A Place With Shade"
  • "At the 'Me' Shop"
  • "Our Prayers Are With You"
  • "Worthy"
  • ""
  • "The Tournament"
  • ""
  • "Mrs. Greasy"
  • "The Myrtle Man"
  • "Tongues" [Ar1996 n]
1996
  • "" [Hu1997 x]
  • "The Apollo Man"
  • "First Tuesday" [Lc1997 n]
  • "Little Miss Trashcan"
  • "Water Colors"
  • "" [Ar1997] [Sc1997 n] [Hu1997 n] [Lc1997 x]
  • "334 Manchester Lane"
  • "Once Green"
  • "" [Ar1997 n] [Hu1997 x] [Lc1997 x] [Ne1997 x]
1997
  • "Blooming Ice" [Lc1998 n]
  • "" [Lc1998 n]
  • "Graffiti"
  • "" [Hu1998 n] [Lc1998 n]
  • "Goo Fish"
  • ""
  • "To Church with Mr. Multhiford"
1998
  • "" [Ar1999 x] [Lc1999 n]
  • "Savior" [Lc1999 n]
  • "" [Lc1999 n]
  • "" [Hu1999 n] [Lc1999 x] [Tp1998 x]
  • "Building the Building of the World" [Ar1999 n] [Hm1998 x]
  • "The New System"
1999
  • "Will Be"
  • "Mac and Me"
  • "The Challenger"
  • "Game of the Century" [Hu2000 x] [Lc2000 n]
  • "Human Bay" [Ar2000 n] [Lc2000 n] [Wf2000 x]
  • "" [Ar2000 n] [Hu2000 x] [Lc2000 n]
  • "" [Lc2000 x] [Su2000 x]
  • "Nodaway" [Hu2000 x] [Lc2000 n]
  • "What It Is"
  • "At the Corner of Darwin and Eternity" [Lc2000 x]
  • "Apothecary Blue"
2000
  • "Due"
  • "Frank" [Lc2001 x]
  • "Grandma's Jumpman" [Lc2001 x]
  • "The Prophet Ugly" [Lc2001 n]
  • "Two Sams"
  • "In the Valley of the Thunder Quail"
  • "When It Ends" [Ar2001 x]
  • "" [Lc2001 x] (available online)
  • "" [Ar2001 x]
  • "The Gulf" [Lc2001 n]
2001
  • "Mirror" [Hu2002 x] [Lc2002 n]
  • "Past Imperfect"
  • "Hero"
  • "Sparks"
  • "One Last Game" [Lc2002 x]
  • "The Boy" [Lc2002 n]
  • "" [Lc2002 x]
2002
  • "Oracles" [Ar2003 n]
  • "" [Su2003 x]
  • "The Children's Crusade" [Lc2003 n] (available online)
  • "Trouble Is"
  • "" [Ar2003] [Lc2003 n]
  • "Veritas" [Ar2003 x] [Lc2003 n]
  • "Melodies Played upon Cold, Dark Worlds" (available online)
  • "The Majesty of Angels"
  • "The Sleeping Woman"
  • "Lying to Dogs" [Ar2003 n] [Lc2003 n]
2003
  • "Rejection"
  • "Buffalo Wolf"
  • "Aux sources du génie" ("The Wellsprings of Creation") Only published in French translation.
  • "555"
  • ""
  • "Hexagons" (available online)
  • "Like, Need, Deserve" (available online)
  • "Like Minds"
2004
  • ""
  • "A Plague of Life"
  • "Wealth"
  • "How it Feels"
  • "Daily Reports"
  • ""
  • "Designing With Souls"
  • "Opal Ball"
  • "A Change of Mind"
  • "The Dragons of Summer Gulch" (available online)
2005
  • "From Above"
  • "Hidden Paradise" (available online)
  • "Veterans of the War"
  • "Dallas: An Essay"
  • "The New Deity"
  • "Poet Snow"
  • ""
  • "Think So?"
  • "Pure Vision"
  • "Finished"
  • "Abducted Souls"
  • "The Cure"
  • "Man for the Job" (available online)
2006
  • "Less Than Nothing"
  • "Good Mountain"
  • "Intolerance"Fifty Dinosaurs
  • "Starbuck"
  • "Rwanda"
  • "Show Me Yours"
  • "Misjudgement Day"
  • "A Billion Eves"
  • "Plausible"
  • "Pills Forever"
2007
2008
  • "The Man With the Golden Balloon"
  • "Fifty Dinosaurs"
  • "Five Thrillers"
  • "The House Left Empty"
  • "Reunion"
  • "Weapons of Discretion"
  • "Character Flu"
  • "Blackbird"
  • "Old Man Waiting"
  • "Six Foot Easy"
  • "Truth"
  • "Floating Over Time"
  • "American Cheetah"
  • "Leave"
  • "Dewey Smith and the Meaning of All"
  • "A Woman's Best Friend"
2010
  • "Alone" (65 pgs.; a "Great Ship" work)[1]
  • "A History of Terraforming"
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
The armistice 1986 Reed, Robert (1986). "The armistice". In Pournelle, Jerry & Jim Baen (eds.). Far frontiers VII. Baen.
Mudpuppies 1986
Treading in the afterglow 1986
Aeries 1987
Goodness 1988
Hybrid 2000 Reed, Robert (Jul 2000). "Hybrid". F&SF. 99 (1): 110–128. Novelette
Crooked Creek 2001 Reed, Robert (Jan 2001). "Crooked Creek". F&SF. 100 (1): 42–58.
Market Day 2001 Reed, Robert (March 2001). "Market Day". F&SF. 100 (3): 89–103.
Season to taste 2001 Reed, Robert (April 2001). "Season to taste". F&SF. 100 (4): 104–111.
Salad for two 2008 Reed, Robert (Sep 2008). "Salad for two". F&SF. 115 (3): 137–152.
The visionaries 2008 Reed, Robert (October–November 2008). "The visionaries". F&SF. 115 (4&5): 126–148. Novelette
Firehorn 2009 Reed, Robert (June–July 2009). "Firehorn". F&SF. 116 (6&7): 6–32. Novelette
Mantis 2010 Reed, Robert (2010). "Mantis". In Strahan, Jonathan (ed.). Engineering infinity. Solaris.
The long retreat 2010 Reed, Robert (January–February 2010). "The long retreat". F&SF. 118 (1&2): 5–27.
The ants of Flanders : a tale of five adventures 2011 Reed, Robert (July–August 2011). "The ants of Flanders : a tale of five adventures". F&SF. 121 (1&2): 84–135. Novella
Swingers 2011
Noumenon 2012 Reed, Robert (Sep 2012). "Noumenon". Asimov's Science Fiction. 36 (9): 56–69.
The pipes of Pan 2012 Reed, Robert (December 2012). "The pipes of Pan". Asimov's Science Fiction. 36 (12): 66–73.
The Golden Age of Story 2013 Reed, Robert (February 2013). "The Golden Age of Story". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (2): 56–67.
Precious mental 2013 Reed, Robert (Jun 2013). "Precious mental". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (6): 62–106. Novella
The principles 2014 Reed, Robert (April–May 2014). "The principles". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (4&5): 142–185. Novella
Blood wedding 2014 Reed, Robert (July 2014). "Blood wedding". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (7): 10–28. Novelette

Nonfiction[]

  • "Read This" in The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 1992.
  • "Improbable Journeys" (2004), the afterword to Mere, which detailed the development of the stories set in the Marrow universe.
  • "Afterword" to The Cuckoo's Boys, a short fiction collection.

References[]

Sites of more general interest that were used as references are listed in the "External links" section.

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Strahan, Jonathan, ed. (2010), Godlike Machines, Garden City, New York: Science Fiction Book Club, p. 343, ISBN 978-1-61664-759-9
  2. ^ "Contest History". Writers of the Future. Los Angeles, California: L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2011.

External links[]

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