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Member Since:
March 19, 2020
Rick Wilber
Biography
Novelist and editor Rick Wilber has published several novels and short-story collections, several college textbooks on writing and the mass media, a memoir about his father’s life in baseball, and more than fifty short stories in major markets, including the Sidewise Award-winning “Something Real,” and the poignant “Today is Today,” reprinted in the Best Science Fiction of 2019 (Prime Books, 2019) edited by Rich Horton. Both stories and seven more tales of determination are in this collection.
Wilber is the editor of several reprint anthologies, including Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural, Future Media, and Making History: Classic Alternate History Stories, among others.
Wilber’s novel, Alien Morning (Tor 2016) was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of 2016, and the sequel, Alien Day: Notes from Holmanville, will be out in 2020, also from Tor.
The son of a major-league baseball player and coach, and a three-sport college scholarship athlete himself, Wilber often incorporates sports into his fiction. He is the father of a Down syndrome son and often incorporates the disabled in his fiction, as well. He is a Visiting Professor in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University, and he is he co-founder and co-judge with Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Editor Sheila Williams of the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing, awarded annually at the International Conference on the Fantastic in Orlando, Florida.
Wilber is the editor of several reprint anthologies, including Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural, Future Media, and Making History: Classic Alternate History Stories, among others.
Wilber’s novel, Alien Morning (Tor 2016) was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of 2016, and the sequel, Alien Day: Notes from Holmanville, will be out in 2020, also from Tor.
The son of a major-league baseball player and coach, and a three-sport college scholarship athlete himself, Wilber often incorporates sports into his fiction. He is the father of a Down syndrome son and often incorporates the disabled in his fiction, as well. He is a Visiting Professor in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University, and he is he co-founder and co-judge with Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Editor Sheila Williams of the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing, awarded annually at the International Conference on the Fantastic in Orlando, Florida.
Books
Monsters, Movies & Mayhem
by Kevin J Anderson (editor), Rick Wilber, David Boop, & Julie Frost
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 109,730.
Language:
English.
Published: July 15, 2020
by
WordFire Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories, Fiction » Anthologies » Horror
Sometimes you go to the movies. And sometimes, the movies—and their monsters—come to you. At any moment, without notice, monsters once relegated to the screen become a reality. Aliens and demons, dragons and ghosts, werewolves, vampires, zombies, and seemingly ordinary people who are just plain evil.
Rambunctious
by Rick Wilber
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 83,080.
Language:
English.
Published: March 25, 2020
by
WordFire Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
A collection of nine previously published short stories by Rick Wilber, selected by the author to reflect his interest in characters who struggle to overcome adversity and move forward in their lives. Features the Sidewise Award-winning “Something Real” and the recent “Today is Today,” a selection for The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 2019 (Prime Books)