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Robert Reed
Born October 9, 1956 (1956-10-09) (age 53)
Occupation Writer
Nationality American
Writing period 1986—Present
Genres Science Fiction, Fantasy
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Robert David Reed (born October 9, 1956) is a Hugo Award-winning American science fiction author. He has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the Nebraska Wesleyan University. Reed is a prolific genre short-fiction writer with over a hundred and forty published stories. His work regularly appears in Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Sci Fiction. He has also published eleven novels.

Reed lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Awards

He was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction in 1987.

Novels

Collections

Chapbooks

  • Mere (2004) (Set in the world of the Great Ship/Marrow)
  • Flavors of My Genius (2006)

Stories

1986
  • "The Armistice"
  • "Mudpuppies"
  • "Treading in the Afterglow"
1987
  • "Aeries"
1988
  • "Goodness"
  • "The Bird Looking In"
1989
  • "Oort Cloud"
  • "Totipotent"
1990
  • "Busybody"
  • "Chaff" [Lc1991 n]
  • "Bushwhacker"
  • "The Utility Man" [Hu1991 n] [Lc1991 n]
1991
  • "Pipes" [Lc1992 n]
1992
  • "After All"
  • "Birth Day"
  • "Burger Love"
  • "Coffins"
1993
  • "On the Brink of that Bright New World"
  • "Do I Know You?"
  • "Blind"
  • "Guest of Honor"
  • "The Toad of Heaven"
  • "Migration Patterns"
  • "Fable Blue"
  • "Sister Alice" [Ar1994 n] [Hu1994 x] [Lc1994 n]
  • "To Know Each Other All the Better"
1994
  • "Treasure Buried"
  • "The Remoras"
  • "The Shape of Everything"
  • "Stride" [Hu1995 x] [Lc1995 n]
  • "The Dimensions of the Deed"
  • "Waging Good" [Ar1996 n] [Hu1996 x] [Lc1996 n]
1995
  • "Dreams from a Severed Heart"
  • "We Are All Superheroes"
  • "A Place With Shade"
  • "At the 'Me' Shop"
  • "Our Prayers Are With You"
  • "Worthy"
  • "Brother Perfect"
  • "The Tournament"
  • "Aeon's Child"
  • "Mrs. Greasy"
  • "The Myrtle Man"
  • "Tongues" [Ar1996 n]
1996
  • "Killing the Morrow" [Hu1997 x]
  • "The Apollo Man"
  • "First Tuesday" [Lc1997 n]
  • "Little Miss Trashcan"
  • "Water Colors"
  • "Decency" [Ar1997] [Sc1997 n] [Hu1997 n] [Lc1997 x]
  • "334 Manchester Lane"
  • "Once Green"
  • "Chrysalis" [Ar1997 n] [Hu1997 x] [Lc1997 x] [Ne1997 x]
1997
  • "Blooming Ice" [Lc1998 n]
  • "The Dragons of Springplace" [Lc1998 n]
  • "Graffiti"
  • "Marrow" [Hu1998 n] [Lc1998 n]
  • "Goo Fish"
  • "Mind's Eye"
  • "To Church with Mr. Multhiford"
1998
  • "Mother Death" [Ar1999 x] [Lc1999 n]
  • "Savior" [Lc1999 n]
  • "The Cuckoo's Boys" [Lc1999 n]
  • "Whiptail" [Hu1999 n] [Lc1999 x] [Tp1998 x]
  • "Building the Building of the World" [Ar1999 n] [Hm1998 x]
  • "The New System"
1999
  • "Will Be"
  • "Mac and Me"
  • "The Challenger"
  • "Game of the Century" [Hu2000 x] [Lc2000 n]
  • "Human Bay" [Ar2000 n] [Lc2000 n] [Wf2000 x]
  • "Baby's Fire" [Ar2000 n] [Hu2000 x] [Lc2000 n]
  • "Winemaster" [Lc2000 x] [Su2000 x]
  • "Nodaway" [Hu2000 x] [Lc2000 n]
  • "What It Is"
  • "At the Corner of Darwin and Eternity" [Lc2000 x]
  • "Apothecary Blue"
2000
  • "Due"
  • "Frank" [Lc2001 x]
  • "Grandma's Jumpman" [Lc2001 x]
  • "The Prophet Ugly" [Lc2001 n]
  • "Two Sams"
  • "In the Valley of the Thunder Quail"
  • "Hybrid" [Lc2001 n]
  • "When It Ends" [Ar2001 x]
  • "Birdy Girl" [Lc2001 x] (available online[dead link])
  • "Father to the Man" [Ar2001 x]
  • "The Gulf" [Lc2001 n]
2001
  • "Crooked Creek"
  • "Mirror" [Hu2002 x] [Lc2002 n]
  • "Market Day"
  • "Past Imperfect"
  • "Season to Taste"
  • "Hero"
  • "Sparks"
  • "One Last Game" [Lc2002 x]
  • "The Boy" [Lc2002 n]
  • "Raven Dream" [Lc2002 x]
2002
  • "Oracles" [Ar2003 n]
  • "Coelacanths" [Su2003 x]
  • "The Children's Crusade" [Lc2003 n] (available online[dead link])
  • "Trouble Is"
  • "She Sees My Monsters Now" [Ar2003] [Lc2003 n]
  • "Veritas" [Ar2003 x] [Lc2003 n]
  • "Melodies Played upon Cold, Dark Worlds" (available online[dead link])
  • "The Majesty of Angels"
  • "The Sleeping Woman"
  • "Lying to Dogs" [Ar2003 n] [Lc2003 n]
2003
  • "Rejection"
  • "Buffalo Wolf"
  • "Aux sources du génie" ("The Wellsprings of Creation") Only published in French translation.
  • "555"
  • "Night of Time"
  • "Hexagons" (available online)
  • "Like, Need, Deserve" (available online[dead link])
  • "Like Minds"
2004
  • "River of the Queen"
  • "A Plague of Life"
  • "Wealth"
  • "How it Feels"
  • "Daily Reports"
  • "The Condor's Green-Eyed Child"
  • "Designing With Souls"
  • Mere
  • "Opal Ball"
  • "A Change of Mind"
  • "The Dragons of Summer Gulch" (available online[dead link])
2005
  • "From Above"
  • "Hidden Paradise" (available online[dead link])
  • "Veterans of the War"
  • "Dallas: An Essay"
  • "The New Deity"
  • "Poet Snow"
  • "Camouflage"
  • "Think So?"
  • "Pure Vision"
  • "Finished"
  • "Abducted Souls"
  • "The Cure"
  • "Man for the Job" (available online[dead link])
2006
  • "Less Than Nothing"
  • "Good Mountain"
  • "Intolerance"Fifty Dinosaurs
  • "Starbuck"
  • "Rwanda"
  • "Show Me Yours"
  • "Misjudgement Day"
  • "A Billion Eves"
  • "Plausible"
  • "Pills Forever"
2007
  • "X-Country"
  • "Magic with Thirteen-Year-Old Boys"
  • "Roxie"
2008
  • The Man With the Golden Balloon
  • Fifty Dinosaurs
  • Five Thrillers
  • The House Left Empty
  • Reunion
  • Weapons of Discretion
  • Character Flu
  • Blackbird
  • Old Man Waiting
  • Salad for Two
  • Six Foot Easy
  • Truth
  • The Visionaries
  • Floating Over Time
  • American Cheetah
  • Leave
  • Dewey Smith and the Meaning of All
  • "A Woman's Best Friend"

Nonfiction

  • "Read This" in The New York Review of Science Fiction, 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

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