Wil McCarthy explained

Birth Date:	16 September 1966
Birth Place:	Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Language:	English
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	President, RavenBrick LLC
Genre:	Science fiction
Subject:	Science and technology
Awards:	Prometheus Award

Wil McCarthy (born September 16, 1966) is an American science fiction novelist, president and co-founder of RavenBrick (a solar technology company), and the science columnist for Syfy. He currently resides in Colorado.^[1] Rich Man's Sky won the 2022 Prometheus Award.

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

Bibliography

Novels

• Book:
• Book:
• Bloom (1998)
• Antediluvian (2019)

Aggressor Six

1. Aggressor Six (1994)
2. The Fall of Sirius (1996)

The Queendom of Sol

1. The Collapsium (2000) ^[2]
2. The Wellstone (2003)
3. Lost in Transmission (2004)
4. Book:

Rich Man's Sky

1. Rich Man's Sky (2021)
2. Poor Man's Sky (2023)
3. Beggar's Sky (2024)

Short fiction

Stories^[3]

width=25%	Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
Wyatt Earp 2.0	2016	McCarthy, Wil . January–February 2016 . Wyatt Earp 2.0. Analog Science Fiction and Fact . 136 . 1&2 . 8–41.		Novella

• "Amerikano Hiaika", Aboriginal Science Fiction, May/June 1991.
• "Dirtyside Down", Universe 3, 1994.
• "The Dream of Houses", Analog, November 1995.^[4]
• "The Dream of Castles", Analog, April 1997.
• "The Dream of Nations", Analog, October 1998.
• "Once Upon a Matter Crushed", Science Fiction Age, May 1999.^{[5] [6]}
• "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. ^[7]

Non-fiction

• "Programmable Matter" (AKA "Programmable Matter: A Retrospective"), Nature, October 6, 2000. .
• "Ultimate Alchemy", Wired 9.10, October 2001
• Hacking Matter (2003),
• "This Looks Like a Job for...Superatoms", IEEE Spectrum, August 2005

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Notes

Other media

Radio plays

• I Love Bees, writer

Radio appearances

• Coast to Coast AM, "Programmable Matter", April 18, 2003
• Coast to Coast AM, "Quantum Dots", April 26, 2004

External links

• WilMcCarthy.com
  • • Wil McCarthy U.S. patents

Notes and References

1. 'Bloom' author biography. Random House. 2008-03-23.
2. [Nebula Award for Best Novel|Nebula Award]
3. Short stories unless otherwise noted.
4. Appeared on the Locus recommended reading list.
5. [Theodore Sturgeon Award]
6. Became the first portion of The Collapsium.
7. Became part of The Wellstone.