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Curriculum Vitae

Robert Charles Wilson, born in 1953, has been a full-time professional writer since 1986. He has published 16 novels, numerous short stories, and several non-fiction pieces and book reviews. He lives in Concord, Ontario, with his wife Sharry, a professional proofreader and author.  His literary agent is Shawna McCarthy (The McCarthy Agency, LLC 7 Allen Street Rumson, NJ 07760 ).

 

Novels

 

A Hidden Place, Bantam, 1986 (reissued by Tor Books, 2005)

 

Memory Wire, Bantam, 1987

 

Gypsies, Bantam, 1989

 

The Divide, Bantam, 1990

 

A Bridge of Years, Bantam, 1991

 

The Harvest, Bantam, 1992

 

Mysterium, Bantam, 1994

 

Darwinia, Tor Books, 1998

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Bios, Tor Books, 1999

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The Chronoliths, Tor Books, 2001

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Blind Lake, Tor Books, 2003

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Spin, Tor Books, 2005

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Axis, Tor Books, 2007

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Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century, Tor Books, 2009

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Vortex, Tor Books, 2011

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Burning Paradise, Tor Books, 2013

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The Affinities, Tor Books, 2015

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​​Last Year, Tor Books, 2016

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Nonfiction

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Owning the Unknown: A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God, Pitchstone Publishing, 2023

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Short Story Collection

 

The Perseids and Other Stories, Tor Books, 2000

 

Chapbook

 

Julian: A Christmas Story, PS Publishing, England, 2006

 

As Editor

 

Tesseracts Ten: A Celebration of New Canadian Speculative Fiction, Edge Press, 2006 (with Edo van Belkom)

 

Literary Honors and Awards

 

Three-time winner of the Aurora Award for Canadian imaginative fiction, for the novels Darwinia and Blind Lake and the short story “The Perseids” (collected in The Perseids and Other Stories)

 

Winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (a juried award presented by the University of Kansas) for his novel The Chronoliths

 

Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award for the novel Mysterium

 

Winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (2007) for his short story “The Cartesian Theater”

 

Winner of the 2006 Hugo Award for his novel Spin

 

Winner of numerous foreign-language awards, including the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire (France),  the Seiun Award (Japan), and the Kurd Lasswitz Prize (Germany).  Robert Charles Wilson's work has been shortlisted for many other honors including the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.  Several of his novels have appeared on the annual Notable Books list of the New York Times.

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