Robert David Reed (born October 9, 1956, in Omaha, Nebraska) is a Hugo Award-winning American science fiction author. He has a Bachelor of Science in biology from the Nebraska Wesleyan University.

  • la Voie terrestre (1994), the French translation of Down the Bright Way (1991) (Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for foreign novel)
  • "Decency" (1996) (Asimov's Science Fiction reader poll, short story)
  • "Marrow" (1997) (Science Fiction Age reader poll, novella)
  • "She Sees My Monsters Now" (2002) (Asimov's Science Fiction reader poll, short story)
  • "A Billion Eves" (2006): Hugo Award for Best Novella, 2007

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)
  6. Hammerwing (2023)

Novels

  • The Leeshore (1987)
  • The Hormone Jungle (1987)
  • Black milk (1989)
  • Down the Bright Way (1991). Review by Jo Walton.
  • The Remarkables (1992)
  • Beyond the Veil of Stars (1994)
  • An Exaltation of Larks (1995)
  • Beneath the Gated Sky (1997)
  • Sister Alice (2003)

Collections

  • The Dragons of Springplace (1999)
  • Chrysalide (2002) (French-language translations)
  • The Cuckoo's Boys (2005)

Chapbooks

  • Mere (2004) (Set in the world of the Great Ship/Marrow)
  • Flavors of My Genius (2006)

Stories

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! | 1989

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  • "Totipotent"

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! | 1990

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  • "Chaff" [Lc1991 n]
  • "Bushwhacker"
  • "The Utility Man" [Hu1991 n] [Lc1991 n]

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! | 1991

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  • "Pipes" [Lc1992 n]

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! | 1992

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  • "After All"
  • "Birth Day"
  • "Burger Love"
  • "Coffins"

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! | 1993

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  • "On the Brink of that Bright New World"
  • "Do I Know You?"
  • "Blind"
  • "Guest of Honor"
  • "The Toad of Heaven"
  • "Migration Patterns"
  • "Fable Blue"
  • "Sister Alice" [Ar1994 n] [Hu1994 x] [Lc1994 n]
  • "To Know Each Other All the Better"

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! | 1994

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  • "The Remoras"
  • "The Shape of Everything"
  • "Stride" [Hu1995 x] [Lc1995 n]
  • "The Dimensions of the Deed"
  • "Waging Good" [Ar1996 n] [Hu1996 x] [Lc1996 n]

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! | 1995

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  • "Dreams from a Severed Heart"
  • "We Are All Superheroes"
  • "A Place With Shade"
  • "At the 'Me' Shop"
  • "Our Prayers Are With You"
  • "Worthy"
  • "Brother Perfect"
  • "The Tournament"
  • "Aeon's Child"
  • "Mrs. Greasy"
  • "The Myrtle Man"
  • "Tongues" [Ar1996 n]

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! | 1996

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  • "Killing the Morrow" [Hu1997 x]
  • "The Apollo Man"
  • "First Tuesday" [Lc1997 n]
  • "Little Miss Trashcan"
  • "Water Colors"
  • "Decency" [Ar1997] [Sc1997 n] [Hu1997 n] [Lc1997 x]
  • "334 Manchester Lane"
  • "Once Green"
  • "Chrysalis" [Ar1997 n] [Hu1997 x] [Lc1997 x] [Ne1997 x]

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! | 1997

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  • "Blooming Ice" [Lc1998 n]
  • "The Dragons of Springplace" [Lc1998 n]
  • "Graffiti"
  • "Marrow" [Hu1998 n] [Lc1998 n]
  • "Goo Fish"
  • "Mind's Eye"
  • "To Church with Mr. Multhiford"

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! | 1998

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  • "Mother Death" [Ar1999 x] [Lc1999 n]
  • "Savior" [Lc1999 n]
  • "The Cuckoo's Boys" [Lc1999 n]
  • "Whiptail" [Hu1999 n] [Lc1999 x] [Tp1998 x]
  • "Building the Building of the World" [Ar1999 n] [Hm1998 x]
  • "The New System"

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! | 1999

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  • "Will Be"
  • "Mac and Me"
  • "The Challenger"
  • "Game of the Century" [Hu2000 x] [Lc2000 n]
  • "Human Bay" [Ar2000 n] [Lc2000 n] [Wf2000 x]
  • "Baby's Fire" [Ar2000 n] [Hu2000 x] [Lc2000 n]
  • "Winemaster" [Lc2000 x] [Su2000 x]
  • "Nodaway" [Hu2000 x] [Lc2000 n]
  • "What It Is"
  • "At the Corner of Darwin and Eternity" [Lc2000 x]
  • "Apothecary Blue"

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! | 2000

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  • "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]
  • "Birdy Girl" [Lc2001 x] (available online)
  • "Father to the Man" [Ar2001 x]
  • "The Gulf" [Lc2001 n]

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! | 2001

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  • "Mirror" [Hu2002 x] [Lc2002 n]
  • "Past Imperfect"
  • "Hero"
  • "Sparks"
  • "One Last Game" [Lc2002 x]
  • "The Boy" [Lc2002 n]
  • "Raven Dream" [Lc2002 x]

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! | 2002

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  • "Oracles" [Ar2003 n]
  • "Coelacanths" [Su2003 x]
  • "The Children's Crusade" [Lc2003 n] (available online)
  • "Trouble Is"
  • "She Sees My Monsters Now" [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]

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! | 2003

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  • "Rejection"
  • "Buffalo Wolf"
  • "Aux sources du génie" ("The Wellsprings of Creation") Only published in French translation.
  • "555"
  • "Night of Time"
  • "Hexagons" (available online)
  • "Like, Need, Deserve" (available online)
  • "Like Minds"

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! | 2004

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  • "River of the Queen"
  • "A Plague of Life"
  • "Wealth"
  • "How it Feels"
  • "Daily Reports"
  • "The Condor's Green-Eyed Child"
  • "Designing With Souls"
  • Mere
  • "Opal Ball"
  • "A Change of Mind"
  • "The Dragons of Summer Gulch" (available online)

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! | 2005

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  • "From Above"
  • "Hidden Paradise" (available online)
  • "Veterans of the War"
  • "Dallas: An Essay"
  • "The New Deity"
  • "Poet Snow"
  • "Camouflage"
  • "Think So?"
  • "Pure Vision"
  • "Finished"
  • "Abducted Souls"
  • "The Cure"
  • "Man for the Job" (available online)

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! | 2006

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  • "Less Than Nothing"
  • "Good Mountain"
  • "Intolerance"Fifty Dinosaurs
  • "Starbuck"
  • "Rwanda"
  • "Show Me Yours"
  • "Misjudgement Day"
  • "A Billion Eves"
  • "Plausible"
  • "Pills Forever"

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! | 2007

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  • "Eight Episodes" (available narrated online)
  • "X-Country"
  • "Magic with Thirteen-Year-Old Boys"
  • "Roxie"

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! | 2008

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  • "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"

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! | 2010

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  • "Alone" (65 pgs.; a "Great Ship" work)