Robert Reed (author)

Robert David Reed (born October 9, 1956 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a Hugo Award-winning American science fiction author. He has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the Nebraska Wesleyan University. Reed is an "extraordinarily prolific" genre short-fiction writer with "Alone" being his 200th professional sale. His work regularly appears in Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Sci Fiction. He has also published eleven novels. , Reed lived in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife and daughter.

Awards

 * "Mudpuppies" (1986) (First Writers of the Future Grand Prize winner)
 * la Voie terrestre (1994), the French translation of Down the Bright Way (1991) (Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for foreign novel)
 * "Decency" (1996) (Asimov's Science Fiction reader poll, short story)
 * "Marrow" (1997) (Science Fiction Age reader poll, novella)
 * "She Sees My Monsters Now" (2002) (Asimov's Science Fiction reader poll, short story)
 * "A Billion Eves" (2006): Hugo Award for Best Novella, 2007

He was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction in 1987.

Marrow Series

 * 1) Marrow (2000)
 * 2) The Well of Stars (2004)
 * 3) The Greatship (2013) (collection)
 * 4) The Memory of Sky (2014)
 * 5) The Dragons of Marrow (2018)
 * 6) Hammerwing (2023)

Novels

 * The Leeshore (1987)
 * The Hormone Jungle (1987)
 * Black milk (1989)
 * Down the Bright Way (1991). Review by Jo Walton.
 * The Remarkables (1992)
 * Beyond the Veil of Stars (1994)
 * An Exaltation of Larks (1995)
 * Beneath the Gated Sky (1997)
 * Sister Alice (2003)

Collections

 * The Dragons of Springplace (1999)
 * Chrysalide (2002) (French-language translations)
 * The Cuckoo's Boys (2005)

Chapbooks

 * Mere (2004) (Set in the world of the Great Ship/Marrow)
 * Flavors of My Genius (2006)

Nonfiction

 * "Read This" in The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 1992.
 * "Improbable Journeys" (2004), the afterword to Mere, which detailed the development of the stories set in the Marrow universe.
 * "Afterword" to The Cuckoo's Boys, a short fiction collection.