Robert Reed

Robert David Reed (born October 9, 1956 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a Hugo Award-winning American science fiction author.^[1] He has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the Nebraska Wesleyan University.^[1] Reed is an "extraordinarily prolific"^[1] genre short-fiction writer with "Alone" being his 200th professional sale. His work regularly appears in Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Sci Fiction. He has also published eleven novels.

As of 2010^[update], Reed lived in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife and daughter.^[1]

Awards

• "Mudpuppies" (1986) (First Writers of the Future Grand Prize winner)^[2]

• la Voie terrestre (1994), the French translation of Down the Bright Way (1991) (Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for foreign novel)
• "Decency" (1996) (Asimov's Science Fiction reader poll, short story)
• "Marrow" (1997) (Science Fiction Age reader poll, novella)
• "She Sees My Monsters Now" (2002) (Asimov's Science Fiction reader poll, short story)
• "A Billion Eves" (2006): Hugo Award for Best Novella, 2007

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

Marrow Series

1. Marrow (2000)
2. The Well of Stars (2004)

Novels

• The Leeshore (1987)
• The Hormone Jungle (1988)
• Black Milk (1989)
• Down the Bright Way (1991). Review by Jo Walton.
• The Remarkables (1992)
• Beyond the Veil of Stars (1994)
• An Exaltation of Larks (1995)
• Beneath the Gated Sky (1997)
• Sister Alice (2003)

Collections

• The Dragons of Springplace (1999)
• Chrysalide (2002) (French-language translations)
• The Cuckoo's Boys (2005)

Chapbooks

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

Stories

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

Sites of more general interest that were used as references are listed in the "External links" section.

• Robert Reed at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• The Locus Index to Science Fiction
• Robert Reed 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

Notes

External links

• Official site
• Robert Reed's online fiction
• Fantastic Fiction Author Page
• April 1998 interview in Locus
• October 2003 interview^{[dead link]} in Science Fiction Weekly
• Nebraska Center for Writers
• Audio review and discussion of Down the Bright Way at The Science Fiction Book Review Podcast

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