Wil McCarthy
Wil McCarthy is an American science fiction novelist, president and co-founder of RavenBrick, and the science columnist for Syfy. He currently resides in Colorado. Rich Man's Sky won the 2022 Prometheus Award. Beggar's Sky is a finalist for the 2025 Prometheus Award.
Wil McCarthy popularized the concept of programmable matter, which he calls wellstone.
Novels
Bloom Antediluvian;Aggressor Six
;The Queendom of Sol
- The Collapsium
- The Wellstone
- Lost in Transmission
- Rich Man's Sky
- Poor Man's Sky
- ''Beggar's Sky''
Short fiction
;Stories| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
| Wyatt Earp 2.0 | 2016 | Novella |
- "Amerikano Hiaika", Aboriginal Science Fiction, May/June 1991.
- "Dirtyside Down", Universe 3, 1994.
- "The Dream of Houses", Analog [Science Fiction (magazine)|Analog], November 1995.
- "The Dream of Castles", Analog, April 1997.
- "The Dream of Nations", Analog, October 1998.
- "Once Upon a Matter Crushed", Science Fiction Age, May 1999.
- "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.
Non-fiction
- "", Nature, October 6, 2000..
- "", Wired 9.10, October 2001Hacking Matter,
- "", IEEE Spectrum, August 2005
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