Wil McCarthy
Wil McCarthy | |
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| Born | September 16, 1966 Princeton, New Jersey |
| 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),[1] and the science columnist for Syfy. He currently resides in Colorado.[2]
Wil McCarthy popularized the concept of programmable matter, which he calls wellstone.
Bibliography[]
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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
- (2019) ISBN 978-1481484312[3]
- Rich Man's Sky (2021) ISBN 978-1-982125-29-5[4]
- 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.[a]
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", , 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[5][6]
Radio appearances[]
- Coast to Coast AM, "Programmable Matter", April 18, 2003[7]
- Coast to Coast AM, "Quantum Dots", April 26, 2004[8]
Notes[]
- ^ Nebula Award nominee.
References[]
- ^ RavenBrick management team, RavenBrick LLC, retrieved 2012-04-16
- ^ "'Bloom' author biography". Random House. Retrieved 2008-03-23. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - ^ "Antediluvian", Publishers Weekly (book review), October 2019
- ^ "Rich Man's Sky", Publishers Weekly (book review), April 2021
- ^ Sean Stewart, I love bees information page, retrieved 2012-04-18
- ^ Wil McCarthy at IMDb
- ^ Programmable Matter, Coast to Coast AM, April 18, 2003
- ^ Quantum Dots, Coast to Coast AM, April 26, 2004
External links[]
- WilMcCarthy.com
- Wil McCarthy at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Wil McCarthy at IMDb
- Wil McCarthy U.S. patents
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