Wil McCarthy
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Wil McCarthy (born September 16, 1966) is an American science fiction novelist, president and co-founder of RavenBrick (a solar technology company),[1] and the science columnist for Syfy. He currently resides in Colorado.[2] Rich Man's Sky won the 2022 Prometheus Award. Beggar's Sky is a finalist for the 2025 Prometheus Award.
Wil McCarthy popularized the concept of programmable matter, which he calls wellstone.
Bibliography
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Novels
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- Bloom (1998) Template:ISBN
- Antediluvian (2019) Template:ISBN[lower-alpha 1]
- Aggressor Six
- Aggressor Six (1994) Template:ISBN
- The Fall of Sirius (1996) Template:ISBN
- The Queendom of Sol
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- The Collapsium (2000) Template:ISBN[lower-alpha 2]
- The Wellstone (2003) Template:ISBN
- Lost in Transmission (2004) Template:ISBN
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- Rich Man's Sky
- Rich Man's Sky (2021) Template:ISBN[lower-alpha 3]
- Poor Man's Sky (2023) Template:ISBN
- Beggar's Sky (2024) Template:ISBN
Short fiction
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- "Amerikano Hiaika", Aboriginal Science Fiction, May/June 1991.
- "Dirtyside Down", Universe 3, 1994.
- "The Dream of Houses", Analog, November 1995.[lower-alpha 5]
- "The Dream of Castles", Analog, April 1997.
- "The Dream of Nations", Analog, October 1998.[lower-alpha 5]
- "Once Upon a Matter Crushed", Science Fiction Age, May 1999.[lower-alpha 5][lower-alpha 6][lower-alpha 7]
- "No Job Too Small", Aboriginal Science Fiction, Spring 2001.
- "Pavement Birds", Analog, July/August 2002.
- "He Died that Day, in Thirty Years", Once Upon a Galaxy, 2002
- "Garbage Day", Analog, December 2002.[lower-alpha 8]
Non-fiction
- "Programmable Matter" (AKA "Programmable Matter: A Retrospective"), Nature, October 6, 2000. Script error: No such module "doi"..
- "Ultimate Alchemy", Wired 9.10, October 2001
- Hacking Matter (2003), Template:ISBN
- "This Looks Like a Job for...Superatoms", IEEE Spectrum, August 2005
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Other media
Radio plays
- I Love Bees, writer[3][4]
Radio appearances
- Coast to Coast AM, "Programmable Matter", April 18, 2003[5]
- Coast to Coast AM, "Quantum Dots", April 26, 2004[6]
References
External links
- WilMcCarthy.com
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- Wil McCarthy U.S. patents
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