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Wil McCarthy

ウィル・マッカーシー

Wiru MakKāshī

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1966-09-16 （Princeton, New Jersey）
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Residence History
Colorado

Career

Occupations
science fiction novelist, president and co-founder of RavenBrick, science columnist for Syfy
Active Years
1994-2024
Affiliations
RavenBrick LLC, Syfy
Nominations
Prometheus Award 2025 finalist (Beggar's Sky)

Awards

Prometheus Award
2022
Work: Rich Man's Sky
Organization: Libertarian Futurist Society
Result: won

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Bloom

1998 Science fiction

SF novel featuring programmable matter

programmable matternanotechnology

The Collapsium

2000 Science fiction

Story revolving around collapsium and wellstone

future technologyspace

Rich Man's Sky

2021 Science fiction

Novel about space development by the wealthy

space colonizationcapitalism

Bibliography

  • Flies from the amber (1995)
  • Murder in the solid state (1996)
  • Aggressor Six (1994)
  • The Fall of Sirius (1996)
  • The Collapsium (2000)
  • The Wellstone (2003)
  • Lost in Transmission (2004)
  • To Crush the Moon (2005)
  • Rich Man's Sky (2021)
  • Poor Man's Sky (2023)
  • Beggar's Sky (2024)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
hard science fictiondetailed scientific descriptions
Recurring Motifs
programmable matterwellstone

Legacy

SF author who popularized programmable matter

In Popular Culture

  • Scriptwriter for I Love Bees

Trivia

  • Popularized the concept of programmable matter called wellstone