Robert David Reed (born October 9, 1956 in

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) is a

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-winning American

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. He has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the

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. Reed is an "extraordinarily prolific" genre short-fiction writer with "Alone" being his 200th professional sale. His work regularly appears in ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Sci Fiction''. He has also published eleven novels. , Reed lived in

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with his wife and daughter.

Awards

* "Mudpuppies" (1986) (First Writers of the Future Grand Prize winner) * ''la Voie terrestre'' (1994), the French translation of ''Down the Bright Way'' (1991) ( Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for foreign novel) * "Decency" (1996) (''

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'' reader poll, short story) * "Marrow" (1997) ('' Science Fiction Age'' reader poll, novella) * "She Sees My Monsters Now" (2002) (''

'' reader poll, short story) * "A Billion Eves" (2006):

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

# '' Marrow'' (

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) # '' The Well of Stars'' (

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

) # ''The Greatship'' (2013) (collection) # ''The Memory of Sky'' (2014) # ''The Dragons of Marrow'' (2018)

Novels

* ''The Leeshore'' (1987) * ''The Hormone Jungle'' (1987) * ''Black milk'' (1989) * ''

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'' (

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)
Review
by

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. * '' The Remarkables'' (

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) * ''

Beyond the Veil of Stars ''Beyond the Veil of Stars'' is a science-fiction novel by Robert Reed, first published in 1994. It describes a world in which the sky undergoes a transformation that prevents people from seeing the stars, giving them instead a view of the other ...

'' (

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Ma ...

) * '' An Exaltation of Larks'' (

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) * ''

Beneath the Gated Sky Beneath the Gated Sky is a science-fiction novel by Robert Reed, first published in 1997. It describes a world in which the sky undergoes a transformation that prevents people from seeing the stars, giving them instead a view of the other side o ...

'' (

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) * ''

Sister Alice ''Sister Alice'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Reed, first published in 2003. It was a finalist for the 2004 John W. Campbell Memorial Award. The five sections of the novel originally appeared in a different form in the ma ...

'' (

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)

Collections

* ''

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'' (

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) * ''

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'' (

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains independence from Indonesia and ...

) (French-language translations) * '' The Cuckoo's Boys'' (

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)

Chapbooks

* '' Mere'' (

) (Set in the world of the Great Ship/Marrow) * '' Flavors of My Genius'' ( 2006)

Stories

Nonfiction

* "Read This" in ''

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'', 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. *
The ''Locus'' Index to Science Fiction

at The '' Locus'' Index to Science Fiction Awards
Hugo Awards 2007
at the World Science Fiction Society's official Hugo Awards site
The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
official page at the website of the

Center for the Study of Science Fiction Founded by Science Fiction/Fantasy Writers Association Grand Master and Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee James E. Gunn, the J Wayne and Elsie M Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction is an endowed research and educational institution ...

Notes

External links

*
Robert Reed's online fiction

Fantastic Fiction Author Page

in Locus
October 2003 interview
in

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Nebraska Center for Writers

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