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Language
  
English

Name
  
Wil McCarthy

Subject
  
Science and technology


Genre
  
Science fiction

Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Novelist

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Born
  
September 16, 1966 (age 57) Princeton, New Jersey (
1966-09-16
)

Occupation
  
President, RavenBrick LLC

Nominations
  
Nebula Award for Best Novel, Philip K. Dick Award

Books
  
The Wellstone, The Collapsium, To Crush the Moon, Lost in transmission, Hacking Matter

Wil McCarthy (born September 16, 1966 in Princeton, New Jersey) is a science fiction novelist, president and co-founder of RavenBrick (a solar technology company), and the science columnist for Syfy. He currently resides in Colorado.

Contents

Wil McCarthy popularized the concept of programmable matter, which he calls wellstone.

Non-fiction

  • Hacking Matter (2003) ISBN 0-465-04428-X

    • Novels

  • Flies from the Amber (1995) ISBN 0-451-45406-5
  • Murder in the Solid State (1996) ISBN 0-312-85938-4
  • Bloom (1998) ISBN 0-345-40857-8

    • The Waisters

  • Aggressor Six (1994) ISBN 0-451-45405-7
  • The Fall of Sirius (1996) ISBN 0-451-45485-5

    • The Queendom of Sol

  • The Collapsium (2000) ISBN 0-345-40856-X — Nebula Award nominee.
  • The Wellstone (2003) ISBN 0-553-58446-4
  • Lost in Transmission (2004) ISBN 0-553-58447-2
  • To Crush the Moon (2005) ISBN 0-553-58717-X — Nebula Award nominee.

    • Short works

  • "Amerikano Hiaika", Aboriginal SF, May/June 1991.
  • "Dirtyside Down", Universe 3, 1994.
  • "The Dream of Houses", Analog, November 1995. Locus recommended reading list.
  • "The Dream of Castles", Analog, April 1997.
  • "The Dream of Nations", Analog, October 1998. Locus recommended reading list.
  • "Once Upon a Matter Crushed", Science Fiction Age, May 1999. Theodore Sturgeon Award Nominee. Locus recommended reading list. Became the first portion of The Collapsium.
  • "No Job Too Small", Aboriginal SF, Spring 2001.
  • "Pavement Birds", Analog, July/August 2002.
  • "Garbage Day", Analog, December 2002. Became part of The Wellstone.

    • Radio plays

  • I Love Bees, writer

    • Print

  • "Programmable Matter, A Retrospective", Nature, October 6, 2000.
  • "Ultimate Alchemy", Wired Magazine 9.10, October, 2001
  • "This looks like a job for...Superatoms", IEEE Spectrum, August, 2005

    • Radio appearances

  • Coast to Coast AM, "Programmable Matter", April 18, 2003
  • Coast to Coast AM, "Quantum Dots", April 26, 2004

    • References

    Wil McCarthy Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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