Robert Reed (author)

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name = Robert Reed


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occupation = Writer
nationality = American
period = 1986—Present
genre = 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.

Awards

* "Mudpuppies" (1986) (Writers of the Future Grand Prize)
* "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.

Novels

* "The Leeshore" (1987)
* "The Hormone Jungle" (1988)
* "Black Milk" (1989)
* "Down the Bright Way" (1991)
* "The Remarkables" (1992)
* "Beyond the Veil of Stars" (1994)
* "An Exaltation of Larks" (1995)
* "Beneath the Gated Sky" (1997)
* "Marrow" (2000)
* "Sister Alice" (2003)
* "The Well of Stars" (2004)

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)

tories

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.
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* [http://www.locusmag.com/index/ The "Locus" Index to Science Fiction]
* [http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit108.html#4289 Robert Reed] at The "Locus" Index to Science Fiction Awards
* [http://www.thehugoawards.org/index.php?page_id=127 Hugo Awards 2007] at the World Science Fiction Society's official Hugo Awards site
* [http://www2.ku.edu/~sfcenter/sturgeon.htm The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award] official page at the website of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction

External links

* [http://www.robertreedwriter.com/ Official site]
* [http://freesfonline.de/authors/reedr.html Robert Reed's online fiction]
* [http://www.locusmag.com/1998/Issues/04/Reed.html April 1998 interview] in Locus
* [http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue344/interview.html October 2003 interview] in Science Fiction Weekly
* [http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/rreecrit.htm Nebraska Center for Writers]
* [http://www.sfbrp.com/archives/31 Audio review and discussion of Down the Bright Way] at [http://www.sfbrp.com/ The Science Fiction Book Review Podcast]

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