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Wil McCarthy

(William Terence McCarthy)
Australia (b.1966)

Wil McCarthy is a novelist, the science columnist for the SciFi channel, and the Chief Technology Officer for Galileo Shipyards, an aero space research corporation. Hacking Matter is an expansion of an article that appeared in Wired in October 2001. He lives in Lakewood, Colorado.

Awards: Prometheus (2022) see all

Genres: Science Fiction

Series

Aggressor Six
   1. Aggressor Six (1994)
   2. Flies from the Amber (1995)
   3. The Fall of Sirius (1996)

Queendom of Sol
   1. The Collapsium (2000)
   2. The Wellstone (2003)
   3. Lost in Transmission (2004)
   4. To Crush the Moon (2005)

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

Novels

   Murder in the Solid State (1996)
   Bloom (1998)
   Antediluvian (2019)

Anthologies edited

Once upon a Galaxy (2002)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Wil McCarthy

Gunfight on Europa Station (2021)
edited by
David Boop

The 2020 Look at Mars Fiction Book (2020)
edited by
Allan Kaster

The Year's Top Short SF Novels 7 (2018)
(Year's Top Short SF Novels, book 7)
edited by
Allan Kaster

More books

Awards

2022 Prometheus Award : Rich Man's Sky

Award nominations

	2006 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : To Crush the Moon
	2006 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : To Crush the Moon
	2005 Philip K Dick Award (nominee) : To Crush the Moon
	2005 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : To Crush the Moon
	2005 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Lost in Transmission
	2001 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Collapsium
	2001 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Collapsium
	2000 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Once Upon a Matter Crushed
	2000 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Once Upon a Matter Crushed
	1999 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Bloom
	1995 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Aggressor Six

Wil McCarthy recommends

The Extractionist (2022)
Kimberly Unger
"Kimberly Unger reimagines cyberpunk from the ground up to deliver a smart, fully immersive thriller."

Pit Planet (2003)
David Dvorkin
"David Dvorkin reminds us that human nature will follow us into the future. A compelling exploration of the causes and consequences of monopoly."

The Risen Empire (2003)
(Succession, book 1)
Scott Westerfeld
"In Westerfeld's hands, science fiction's cutting edge is wielded with both the precision of a surgeon's scalpel and the wild abandon of a machete."

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