Robert Charles Wilson

Robert Wilson

Robert Charles Wilson (born December 15, 1953 in Whittier , California ) is a Canadian science fiction author.

Life

Wilson was in 1953 in Whittier in the US - State of California born, but grew up in Canada near Toronto on. Apart from another brief period, which he spent in Whittler in the early 1970s, he lived in Canada: for a time in Nanaimo , briefly in Vancouver , now with his wife Sharry in Concord, a sleepy suburb of Vaughan , north of Toronto.

His books have been recommended several times by the New York Times as notable (“Notable Books of the Year”) and are valued by his readers for the differentiated elaboration of the protagonists and the use of very unusual ideas from the field of hard SF .

Awards

• 1995: Philip K. Dick Award for Mystery
• 1996: Aurora Award for The Perseids
• 1999: Aurora Award for Darwinia
• 2002: John W. Campbell Memorial Award for The Chronoliths
• 2004: Aurora Award for Blind Lake
• 2006: Hugo Award for Spin
• 2006: Geffen Award for Spin
• 2007: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Spin
• 2007: Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for The Cartesian Theater
• 2007: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis as best foreign work for Spin
• 2009: Seiun Award for Spin
• 2018: Aurora Award Hall of Fame

plant

Spin trilogy

• Vol. 1: Spin , 2005; German Spin , Heyne, 2006, ISBN 3-453-52200-1
• Vol. 2: Axis , 2007; German Axis , Heyne, 2008, ISBN 3-453-52335-0
• Vol. 3: Vortex , 2011; German Vortex , Heyne, 2012, ISBN 978-3-453-52898-7

Single novels

• A Hidden Place , 1986
• Memory Wire , 1987
• Gypsies , 1988
• The Divide , 1990
• A Bridge of Years , 1991; German Until the End of All Time , Goldmann, 1994, ISBN 3-442-42012-1 ; and Chronos , Heyne, 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-52448-4
• The Harvest , 1993
• Mystery , 1994
• Darwinia , 1998; German Darwinia , Heyne, 2002, ISBN 3-453-19659-7 ; February 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-52646-4
• Bios , 1999; German Bios , Heyne, 2003, ISBN 3-453-86360-7
• The Chronoliths , 2001; German Die Chronolithen , Heyne, 2005, ISBN 3-453-52105-6
• Blind Lake , 2003; German quarantine , Heyne, 2007, ISBN 3-453-52316-4
• Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America , 2009; German Julian Comstock , Heyne, 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-52566-5
• Burning Paradise , 2013; German control , Heyne, 2017, ISBN 978-3-641-15463-9
• The Affinities , 2015; German network ; Heyne, 2017, ISBN 978-3453316577
• Last Year , 2016

Short story collection

• The Perseids and Other Stories , 2000

"The Fields of Abraham", 2000 "The Perseids", 1995 "The Inner Inner City", 1997 "The Observer", 1998 "Protocols of Consumption", 1997 "Ulysses Sees the Moon in the Bedroom Window", 2000 "Plato's Mirror", 1999 "Divided by Infinity", 1998 "Pearl Baby", 2000

Other short stories

• "Equinocturne," as Bob Chuck Wilson, 1975
• "Boulevard Life", 1985
• "The Blue Gularis", 1985
• "State of the Art", 1985
• "A Knight of Antiquity", 1986
• "Ballads in 3/4 Time", 1987
• "Extras", 1987
• "The Great Goodbye", 2000
• "The Dryad's Wedding", 2000
• "The Cartesian Theater", 2006
• "Julian: A Christmas Story", 2006
• "YFL-500", 2007
• “This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe “, 2009
• "Utriusque Cosmi", 2009
• "Fireborn", 2012

literature

• Uwe Kramm: "The work of an author always stands for itself, not for a genre!" A conversation with Robert Charles Wilson . In: The Science Fiction Year 2007, ed. by Sascha Mamczak and Wolfgang Jeschke , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag Munich, pp. 415–431. ISBN 978-3-453-52261-9
• Hartmut Kasper : Julian Comstock , in: The Science Fiction Year 2010 , edited by Sascha Mamczak and Wolfgang Jeschke, Heyne, Munich 2010, pp. 958–962. ISBN 978-3-453-52681-5
• Uwe Neuhold: Vortex. In: The Science Fiction Year 2013. Edited by Sascha Mamczak, Sebastian Pirling and Wolfgang Jeschke, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2013, pp. 449–452, ISBN 978-3-453-53444-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Charles Wilson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Robert Charles Wilson in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Robert Charles Wilson at Open Library
• Robert Charles Wilson in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Robert Charles Wilson's official website