Rick Wilber
| Richard Arnold Wilber | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1948 |
| Occupation | editor, short story writer, poet |
| Nationality | United States |
| Genre | Science fiction, fantasy |
Rick Wilber is an American author, poet, and editor. He has published more than thirty-five short stories in magazines such as Aboriginal SF, Analog, Asimov's Science Fiction, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Pulphouse, and SF Age; and in anthologies such as Alien Sex and Chrysalis. In addition to his short stories, he has written the novels Rum Point and The Cold Road, as well as a memoir, My Father's Game: Life, Death, Baseball, and several textbooks, including Modern Media Writing and Magazine Feature Writing.
Wilber is the editor of anthologies including Subtropical Speculations: An Anthology of Florida Science Fiction (1991) and Future Media (2011).[1] His short story "Something Real" won the 2013 Sidewise Award for Alternate History, Short Form.[2]
He currently lives in Florida where he teaches Mass Communications at the University of South Florida.[3]
Wilber's father was baseball player Del Wilber, which has influenced much of his writing, both fictional ("Where Garagiola Waits") and non-fictional (My Father's Game).
Bibliography
Short fiction
- Wilber, Richard (1980). "Horatio Hornblower and the Songs of Innocence". In Torgeson, Roy. Chrysalis 6. Zebra Books. ISBN 0-89083-567-5.
- Thinking of Romance (1981)
- Waiting for the Call (1982)
- Suffer the Children (1988)
- Mary Alice Blue Eyes (1989)
- War Bride (1990)
- Helmet (1991)
- Greggie's Cup (1992)
- Calculating Love (1992)
- Ice Covers the Hole (1992)
- Being Ernest (1993)
- With Twoclicks Watching (1993)
- A Falling Out (1993)
- Bridging (1994)
- Hope as an Element of Cold Dark Matter (1994)
- American Jokes (1994)
- With White Deer Gone (1994)
- Elements of Self-Destruction (1995)
- Virolec and the Beast (1995)
- Hope As an Element of Cold, Dark Matter (1995)
- Mounting the Monkeys (1995)
- Swimming with Gort (1995)
- Run Down West (1996)
- The Babe, the Iron Horse, and Mr. McGillicuddy (1997) with Ben Bova
- Where Garagiola Waits (1997)
- Straight Changes (1998)
- In Boise (1999)
- Imagine Jimmy (1999)
- In Boise (2000)
- Stephen to Cora to Joe, or, the Truth As I Know It, or, Shifty Paradigms: The Use of Literary Icons and Sports Motifs in Speculative Fiction (2000)
- Seven Sisters (2000)
- To Leuchars (2000)
- Arribada (2000)
- Blind Spot (2010) with Nicholas A. DiChario
- Several Items of Interest (2010)
- Something Real (2012)
- Wilber, Rick (July 2013). "At Palomar". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (7): 84–106.
Collections
- Where Garagiola Waits, and Other Baseball Stories (1999)
- To Leuchars (2003)
Novels
- Rum Point (2009)
- The Cold Road (2003)
Poetry
- The Impaler in Love (1991)
- A Falling Out (1993)
- The Murderer Explains (1994)
- Deposed, He Remembers Her on the Morning of His Death (1995)
- Following Her Divorce (1995)
- Metaphysics at the Planetarium (1995)
- Homer (1997)
Nonfiction
- Subtropical Speculations: An Anthology of Florida Science Fiction (Richard Mathews and Rick Wilber, 1991)
- Magazine Feature Writing (1994)
- The Writer's Handbook for Editing & Revision (Aug 1996)
- Modern Media Writing (by Rick Wilber and Randy Miller, 2002)
- My Father's Game: Life, Death, Baseball (November 12, 2007)
- Future Media (2011, published by Tachyon Publications.)
- Media Matters (forthcoming)
References
- ↑ Rick Wilber at the Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base
- ↑ Glyer, Mike (August 31, 2013). "2013 Sidewise Awards". File 770. Retrieved September 5, 2013.
- ↑ "A Conversation With Rick Wilber" An interview with Trent Walters for SF Site