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

Career

Wilson's work has won the

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(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

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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

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has called Wilson "probably the finest science-fiction author now writing". Wilson's literary agent is

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, and his most recent books (including ''Blind Lake'', ''Spin'', and ''Axis'') have been edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden of

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. ''Spin'' is the first book of a trilogy that continues in ''Axis'' and finishes with ''Vortex''. ''Spin'' won the

in 2006. His novella '' Julian: A Christmas Story'' (2006) was published by PS Publishing in 2007 and was a finalist for the Hugo Award. A novel-length expansion, '' Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America'' was published by Tor in 2009. Wilson's latest novel, ''Last Year'', was published December 6, 2016.

Personal life

Wilson was born in the United States in California, but grew up near

Toronto Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ...

, Ontario. Apart from another short period in the early 1970s spent in Whittier, California, he has lived most of his life in Canada, and in 2007 he became a Canadian citizen. He resided for a while in

Nanaimo Nanaimo ( ) is a city of about 100,000 on the east coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. "The Harbour City" was previously known as the "Hub City", which was attributed to its original layout design with streets radiating fr ...

, British Columbia, and briefly in

Vancouver Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the cit ...

. Currently he lives with his wife Sharry in Concord, a neighbourhood of

Vaughan Vaughan ( ) (2022 population 344,412) is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is located in the Regional Municipality of York, just north of Toronto. Vaughan was the fastest-growing municipality in Canada between 1996 and 2006 with its population increa ...

, Ontario located north of Toronto. He has two sons, Paul and Devon.

Bibliography

Novels

*''A Hidden Place'' (1986) **Nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award for Best Novel, 1986 *'' 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 *'' Darwinia'' (1998) **Nominated for the Hugo and Locus SF Awards for Best Novel, 1999 *''

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'' (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

for Best Novel, nominated for Campbell and Locus SF Awards, 2006 **On 2006-10-12 won the Geffen Award as the Best Translated SF Novel in Israel for 2006. **In 2007 won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis as the Best Foreign Fiction of the Year for 2006. **In 2009 won the

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as the Best Foreign Language Novel of the Year in Japan for 2008. *''

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'' (2007) **Nominated for the John W. Campbell Award, 2008 *'' Vortex'' (2011) **A ''Spin'' and ''Axis'' sequel published on July 5, 2011

Collection

*''The Perseids and Other Stories'' (1998) **include
"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

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Robert Charles 1953 births Living people American emigrants to Canada Canadian science fiction writers Hugo Award–winning writers Canadian male novelists Aurora Award–winning writers