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.

Wil McCarthy popularized the concept of programmable matter, which he calls wellstone.

Bibliography

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Novels

• McCarthy, Wil (1995). Flies from the Amber. ISBN 0-451-45406-5.
• Murder in the Solid State (1996) ISBN 0-312-85938-4
• Bloom (1998) ISBN 0-345-40857-8
• Antediluvian (2019) ISBN 978-1481484312[3]
• Rich Man's Sky (2021) ISBN 978-1-982125-29-5[4]

The Waisters

• Aggressor Six (1994) ISBN 0-451-45405-7
• The Fall of Sirius (1996) ISBN 0-451-45485-5

The Queendom of Sol

1. The Collapsium (2000) ISBN 0-345-40856-X—Nebula Award nominee.
2. The Wellstone (2003) ISBN 0-553-58446-4
3. Lost in Transmission (2004) ISBN 0-553-58447-2
4. To Crush the Moon (2005) ISBN 0-553-58717-X—Nebula Award nominee.

Short fiction

• "Amerikano Hiaika", Aboriginal Science Fiction, May/June 1991.
• "Dirtyside Down", Universe 3, 1994.
• "The Dream of Houses", Analog, November 1995. Locus recommended reading list.
• "The Dream of Castles", Analog, April 1997.
• "The Dream of Nations", Analog, October 1998. Locus recommended reading list.
• "Once Upon a Matter Crushed", Science Fiction Age, May 1999. Theodore Sturgeon Award Nominee. Locus recommended reading list. Became the first portion of The Collapsium.
• "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. Became part of The Wellstone.

Non-fiction

• "Programmable Matter" (AKA "Programmable Matter: A Retrospective"), Nature, October 6, 2000. doi:10.1038/35036656.
• "Ultimate Alchemy", Wired 9.10, October 2001
• Hacking Matter (2003), ISBN 0-465-04428-X
• "This Looks Like a Job for...Superatoms", IEEE Spectrum, August 2005

Other media

Radio plays

• I Love Bees, writer[5][6]

Radio appearances

• Coast to Coast AM, "Programmable Matter", April 18, 2003[7]
• Coast to Coast AM, "Quantum Dots", April 26, 2004[8]

References

External links

• WilMcCarthy.com
• Wil McCarthy at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Wil McCarthy at IMDb
• Wil McCarthy U.S. patents