Robert Charles Wilson


Robert Charles Wilson is an American-Canadian science fiction author.

Career

Wilson was born in the United States in California, but grew up near Toronto, 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, British Columbia, and briefly in Vancouver. Currently he lives with his wife Sharry in Concord, a neighbourhood of Vaughan, Ontario located north of Toronto. He has two sons, Paul and Devon.
His work has won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, three Prix Aurora Awards, and the Philip K. Dick Award. ' is a 2010 Hugo Award 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 Stephen King has called Wilson "probably the finest science-fiction author now writing".
Wilson's literary agent is Shawna McCarthy, and his most recent books have been edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden of Tor Books.
Spin is the first book of a trilogy that continues in Axis and finishes with Vortex. Spin won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2006.
His novella ' was published by PS Publishing in 2007 and was a finalist for the Hugo Award. A novel-length expansion, was published by Tor in 2009.
Wilson's latest novel, Last Year, was published December 6, 2016.

Fiction