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

Career

Wilson's work has won the Hugo Award for Best Novel (for Spin), the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for the novel The Chronoliths), the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for the novelette "The Cartesian Theater"), three Prix 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). Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America was a 2010 Hugo Award nominee in the Best Novel category.

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.

Author Stephen King has called Wilson "probably the finest science-fiction author now writing".

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 finishes with Vortex. Spin won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2006.

  • Memory Wire (1987)
  • Gypsies (1988)
  • The Divide (1990)
  • A Bridge of Years (1991)
  • Nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award for Best Novel, 1991
  • The Harvest (1992)
  • Mysterium (1994)
  • Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award for Best Novel, 1994
  • Bios (1999)
  • The Chronoliths (2001)
  • Winner of the Campbell Award, nominated for the Hugo and Locus SF Awards for Best Novel, 2001
  • Blind Lake (2003)
  • Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, 2004
  • Magic Time: Ghostlands (2004, with Marc Scott Zicree)
  • Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)
  • Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, 2010
  • Burning Paradise (2013)
  • The Affinities (2015)
  • Last Year (2016)

Spin series

  • Spin (2005)
  • Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, nominated for Campbell and Locus SF Awards, 2006
  • Vortex (2011)
  • A Spin and Axis sequel published on July 5, 2011

Collection

  • The Perseids and Other Stories (1998)
  • includes "Divided by Infinity" (1998)

Nonfiction

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

Anthology

  • Tesseracts Ten with Edo van Belkom (2006)

Critical studies, reviews and biography

References

Further reading