Robert Reed (author)

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Robert David Reed (born October 9, 1956) is an American (Lincoln, Nebraska-based) science fiction author. He has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Reed is one of the most prolific genre short-fiction writers, with over a hundred and forty published stories. His works regularly appear in Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Sci Fiction. He has also published eleven novels.

Contents

[edit] Works

[edit] Novels

[edit] Collections

[edit] Chapbooks

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

[edit] Stories

1986
  • "The Armistice"
  • "Mudpuppies"
  • "Treading in the Afterglow"
1987
  • "Aeries"
1988
  • "Goodness"
  • "The Bird Looking In"
1989
  • "Oort Cloud"
  • "Totipotent"
1990
  • "Busybody"
  • "Chaff" [Lc1991 n]
  • "Bushwhacker"
  • "The Utility Man" [Hu1991 n] [Lc1991 n]
1991
  • "Pipes" [Lc1992 n]
1992
  • "After All"
  • "Birth Day"
  • "Burger Love"
  • "Coffins"
1993
  • "On the Brink of that Bright New World"
  • "Do I Know You?"
  • "Blind"
  • "Guest of Honor"
  • "The Toad of Heaven"
  • "Migration Patterns"
  • "Fable Blue"
  • "Sister Alice" [Ar1994 n] [Hu1994 x] [Lc1994 n]
  • "To Know Each Other All the Better"
1994
  • "Treasure Buried"
  • "The Remoras"
  • "The Shape of Everything"
  • "Stride" [Hu1995 x] [Lc1995 n]
  • "The Dimensions of the Deed"
  • "Waging Good" [Ar1996 n] [Hu1996 x] [Lc1996 n]
1995
  • "Dreams from a Severed Heart"
  • "We Are All Superheroes"
  • "A Place With Shade"
  • "At the 'Me' Shop"
  • "Our Prayers Are With You"
  • "Worthy"
  • "Brother Perfect"
  • "The Tournament"
  • "Aeon's Child"
  • "Mrs. Greasy"
  • "The Myrtle Man"
  • "Tongues" [Ar1996 n]
1996
  • "Killing the Morrow" [Hu1997 x]
  • "The Apollo Man"
  • "First Tuesday" [Lc1997 n]
  • "Little Miss Trashcan"
  • "Water Colors"
  • "Decency" [Ar1997] [Sc1997 n] [Hu1997 n] [Lc1997 x]
  • "334 Manchester Lane"
  • "Once Green"
  • "Chrysalis" [Ar1997 n] [Hu1997 x] [Lc1997 x] [Ne1997 x]
1997
  • "Blooming Ice" [Lc1998 n]
  • "The Dragons of Springplace" [Lc1998 n]
  • "Graffiti"
  • "Marrow" [Hu1998 n] [Lc1998 n]
  • "Goo Fish"
  • "Mind's Eye"
  • "To Church with Mr. Multhiford"
1998
  • "Mother Death" [Ar1999 x] [Lc1999 n]
  • "Savior" [Lc1999 n]
  • "The Cuckoo's Boys" [Lc1999 n]
  • "Whiptail" [Hu1999 n] [Lc1999 x] [Tp1998 x]
  • "Building the Building of the World" [Ar1999 n] [Hm1998 x]
  • "The New System"
1999
  • "Will Be"
  • "Mac and Me"
  • "The Challenger"
  • "Game of the Century" [Hu2000 x] [Lc2000 n]
  • "Human Bay" [Ar2000 n] [Lc2000 n] [Wf2000 x]
  • "Baby's Fire" [Ar2000 n] [Hu2000 x] [Lc2000 n]
  • "Winemaster" [Lc2000 x] [Su2000 x]
  • "Nodaway" [Hu2000 x] [Lc2000 n]
  • "What It Is"
  • "At the Corner of Darwin and Eternity" [Lc2000 x]
  • "Apothecary Blue"
2000
  • "Due"
  • "Frank" [Lc2001 x]
  • "Grandma's Jumpman" [Lc2001 x]
  • "The Prophet Ugly" [Lc2001 n]
  • "Two Sams"
  • "In the Valley of the Thunder Quail"
  • "Hybrid" [Lc2001 n]
  • "When It Ends" [Ar2001 x]
  • "Birdy Girl" [Lc2001 x] (available online)
  • "Father to the Man" [Ar2001 x]
  • "The Gulf" [Lc2001 n]
2001
  • "Crooked Creek"
  • "Mirror" [Hu2002 x] [Lc2002 n]
  • "Market Day"
  • "Past Imperfect"
  • "Season to Taste"
  • "Hero"
  • "Sparks"
  • "One Last Game" [Lc2002 x]
  • "The Boy" [Lc2002 n]
  • "Raven Dream" [Lc2002 x]
2002
  • "Oracles" [Ar2003 n]
  • "Coelacanths" [Su2003 x]
  • "The Children's Crusade" [Lc2003 n] (available online)
  • "Trouble Is"
  • "She Sees My Monsters Now" [Ar2003] [Lc2003 n]
  • "Veritas" [Ar2003 x] [Lc2003 n]
  • "Melodies Played upon Cold, Dark Worlds" (available online)
  • "The Majesty of Angels"
  • "The Sleeping Woman"
  • "Lying to Dogs" [Ar2003 n] [Lc2003 n]
2003
  • "Rejection"
  • "Buffalo Wolf"
  • "Aux sources du génie" ("The Wellsprings of Creation") Only published in French translation.
  • "555"
  • "Night of Time"
  • "Hexagons" (available online)
  • "Like, Need, Deserve" (available online)
  • "Like Minds"
2004
  • "River of the Queen"
  • "A Plague of Life"
  • "Wealth"
  • "How it Feels"
  • "Daily Reports"
  • "The Condor's Green-Eyed Child"
  • "Designing With Souls"
  • Mere
  • "Opal Ball"
  • "A Change of Mind"
  • "The Dragons of Summer Gulch" (available online)
2005
  • "From Above"
  • "Hidden Paradise" (available online)
  • "Veterans of the War"
  • "Dallas: An Essay"
  • "The New Deity"
  • "Poet Snow"
  • "Camouflage"
  • "Think So?"
  • "Pure Vision"
  • "Finished"
  • "Abducted Souls"
  • "The Cure"
  • "Man for the Job" (available online)
  • "Less Than Nothing"
2006
  • "Good Mountain"
  • "Intolerance"
  • "Rwanda"
  • "Misjudgement Day"
  • "A Billion Eves"
  • "Plausible"

[edit] Nonfiction

  • "Read This" in The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 1992. A reading list.
  • "Improbable Journeys" (2004), the afterword to Mere. Essay on the development of the stories set in the Marrow universe.
  • "Afterword" to The Cuckoo's Boys. Notes on the stories in the collection.

[edit] Awards


Robert Reed has been nominated for the Hugo Award five times. For Best Short Story: "The Utility Man" (in 1991), "Decency" (1997), "Whiptail" (1999), and "Hexagons" (2004). For Best Novella: "Marrow" (1998).

He was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novella for "Chrysalis" (in 1997).

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

[edit] References

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DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Omaha, Nebraska
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