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4-9-2009: Bob did not win the Hugo Award for "Truth" (Novella) at Anticipation in Montreal. That honor went to "The Erdmann Nexus" by Nancy Kress, which ironically appeared in the same Oct/Nov 2008 issue of Asimov's as Bob's story. |
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July also featured the release of the Mike Ashley-edited anthology Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF, featuring Bob's novelette "Castle in the Sky". |
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May 2009: Bob sold novelette "The Long Retreat" to F&SF for an unspecified future issue. Also sold reprint rights to "Character Flu" for Horton's combined Science Fiction and Fantasy year's best anthology. |
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April 2009: The Japanese translation of Bob's novella "A Billion Eves" has been nominated for Japan's Seiun Award. It was translated by Naoya Nakahara, and appeared in the March 2008 issue of SF Magazine. The category for foreign language short fiction is very strong, with all the stories previous Hugo nominees and winners. The other nominees are “The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate” by Ted Chiang, “The Cambist and Lord Iron : A Fairy Tale of Economics” by Daniel Abraham, “All Seated on the Ground” by Connie Willis, “The Summer Isles” by Ian R. MacLeod, and “Singing My Sister Down” by Margo Lanagan.
4-15-2009: Writer/artist Paul Abbamondi has included an image of Bob along with a very flattering group of eleven other writers in his illustration "Authors I Love To Read (Part Four Of Whatever)". Abbamondi does the online journal comic MyLifeComics and the online graphic novel Fortuitous Twist. |
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March 2009: Bob's story "True Fame" is in the current, April/May 2009, issue of Asimov's One of Bob's 2008 stories, "The Visionaries", has been adapted as an audio podcast episode at www.clonepod.org -- now available.
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Bob's first three stories of the year are out. His short story "Three Princesses" appears in the original anthology We Think, Therefore We Are edited by Peter Crowther (DAW Books), and the fifth novelette of the Amerindian sequence "Shadow-Below" can be found in the March issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Bob's third story of the year, "True Fame" in the April/May issue of Asimov's, is on news stands as of March 3rd.
2-27-2009: Bob's 2008 story "The Visionaries" is now available as an audio podcast recording from www.clonepod.org. |
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January 2009: Time, once again, to join the other science fiction professionals in reminding award voters by listing Bob's 2008 output, eligible for all appropriate literary awards for works published in the 2008 calendar year:
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December 2008: Bob ended 2008 with a final short story sale in the final week of the year -- "Mermaids" to Gordon Van Gelder at F&SF, for an unspecified publication date Bob, indeed, had more individual works published in 2008 than in any previous year. "Leave", in the December 2008 F&SF was Bob's 180th published short work of fiction! |
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The all-original anthology Extraordinary Engines, now released, features Bob's novelette, "American Cheetah." If the rest of the publication schedule for 2008 remains intact, Bob will have had more individual works published in 2008 than in any previous year. |
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Big month in the magazines -- Bob had stories in both the Oct/Nov 2008 F&SF and the Oct/Nov 2008 Asimov's this month. F&SF featured the novelette "The Visionaries", while Asimov's featured the novella "The Truth". |
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August 2008: Bob loses the crown of "writer of the weirdest novel in the world" -- at least as far as Jo Walton opines in this August 20th blog entry on the Tor site. The comments in response relate in several ways to Bob's Exaltation of Larks, so we'll put a "review link" to this blog on that novel's page here, too! Bob passed the 175-story milestone with "Six Foot Easy" in the special WorldCon issue (#15) of PS Publishing's Postscripts. Postscripts #14 is also still available for ordering online. It features Bob's short story, "Blackbird". |
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July 2008: Bob's short story "Roxie" which appeared in the July 2007 Asimov's, is has been included in a StarshipSofa podcast, available online starting this month. 7-9-2008: Maurizio Manzieri has posted one of the preliminary cover proposals for his "Five Thrillers" cover art to accompany Bob's story (in the April 2008 F&SF) on his blog. He also posted in his blog about the reuse of the final "Five Thrillers" piece in an Italian magazine called The Robot. Another post by Manzieri later in the month about the final "Five Thrillers" piece. 7-17-2008: Bob made a short story sale to Nature magazine, "Dewey Smith and the Meaning of All". Bob will be attending and participating in this year's WorldCon, Denvention 3. He is currently scheduled to appear on two panels -- "SF as a forum for questioning social norms" (Fri 10:00), and "A World Without Children: The social implications of a declining birthrate" (Sat 10:00). He'll also be available at the following two signings: Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 30th Anniversary Anthology at the Tachyon Press table in the Dealers Room (Fri 11:30-12) and at the Asimov's/Analog table in the exhibition hall (Fri 1-2). |
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June 2008: Bob sold two novelettes back-to-back this month. The first is "Firehorn", to the magazine F&SF. The second is "Castle in the Sky" to the Sense of Wonder anthology, being edited by Mike Ashley. 6-24-2008: A short interview with Bob appears in today's installment of Blogging the Muse, a blog by Travis Heermann that features author discussions. Bob's short story "Old Man Waiting" is in the August 2008 issue of Asimov's, which should be available on magazine stands now. Pre-orders are available for PS Publishing's PostScripts #15 -- the 2008 special WorldCon issue. It includes Bob's short story "Six Foot Easy".
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May 2008: Bob's short story "The Hoplite" which appeared in the on-line venue Helix SF #4 in April 2007, is on the Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2007 list, from which a group of ten finalists will be selected shortly. |
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April 2008: Bob's short story "Weapons of Discretion" premieres at Helix SF on the 1st of April, his 170th published short work.
Bob's story "Reunion" is in the May 2008 issue of F&SF this month. 4-16-2008: Bob is one of several genre authors known for their short fiction, who commented on the state of the short fiction market for the article "MIND MELD: Is the Short Fiction Market in Trouble?" at sfsignal.com. 4-16-2008: Bob sold novella "Alone" to Jonathan Strahan's upcoming Godlike Machines anthology, scheduled to be the final original anthology to come from The Science Fiction Book Club.
4-23-2008: Bob made a short story sale to Postscripts for their 15th issue, scheduled for release in time for distribution at this year's WorldCon. The story's title is "Six Foot Easy." |
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3-17-2008: John Joseph Adams includes a brief interview with Bob about "Five Thrillers" in the F&SF blog for today. 3-19-2008: UPDATED -- The fifth of Bob's seven SciFiction stories is now available here on his official website! Click -- The Dragons of Summer Gulch! 3-30-2008: Postscripts #14 (Spring 2008) is now available for ordering (click the link above or the cover at right). It features Bob's short story "Blackbird". It's available in hardback or paperback editions. |
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February 2008: 2-3-2008: Locus Magazine announced its annual Locus Recommended Reading List. Three of Bob's 2007 stories made the list this year: "Magic With Thirteen-Year-Old Boys", "The Caldera of Good Fortune" and "Roxie".
2-27-2008: Bob made a story sale to Clarkesworld -- "A Woman's Best Friend" -- for publication in their December 2008 issue. |
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January 2008: Since John Scalzi, Jay Lake, Robert J. Sawyer and several other genre authors have already done so, we join the fray by listing Bob's 2007 output, eligible for all appropriate literary awards for works published in the 2007 calendar year:
1-12-2008: Gardner Dozois has selected Bob's story "Roxie" to appear in The Year's Best Science Fiction: 25th Annual Collection. See the full listing. On a related note, Nancy Kress poses the question "Is 'Roxie' science fiction?" in a blog posting/review of the story. 1-15-2008: Bob's story, "Night Calls", has been selected to appear in the Rich Horton-edited Science Fiction: Best of the Year - 2008 Edition. See the full listing. |
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December 2007: With the sale of "Weapons of Discretion" to online SF magazine Helix SF at the end of this month, 2007 tallied up to 13 story sales. |
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The Winners | The Full Voting Results [Photo at right is Scott Edelman (editor of Science Fiction Weekly) accepting Bob's Hugo Award for "A Billion Eves", with author Robert Silverberg, the presenter, standing in the background. Photo is by Adrienne Loska (a.k.a. Flickr user lasirenadolce.] 9-3-2007: UPDATED -- The Asimov's magazine online discussion forums has a discussion thread going in acknowledgement of Bob's first Hugo. Michael Swanwick, fellow Hugo-nominee this year in the novella category, comments on Bob's win, and avoidance of the "bull goose loser" label, in his own blog. 9-5-2007: UPDATED -- Both Mark R. Kelly and Rich Horton comment specifically on Bob's Hugo win in a discussion on the Locus blog. The local Omaha World Herald noted Bob's Hugo win with a brief interview. 9-8-2007: UPDATED -- The Nebraska Center for Writers used an edited version of this very news page to feature Bob's Hugo win as their Top of the Rock news item for September 2007! 9-30-2007: UPDATED -- Bob's Hugo-winning novella, "A Billion Eves" will appear as a stand-alone book in an Italian translation from publisher Delos Books. It has also, previously, been translated into Russian. |
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August 2007: A lively discussion thread about Bob's "If We Can Save Just One Child" showed up on the F&SF discussion boards in late July and early August -- more discussion than individual stories usually tend to generate! 8-17-2007: UPDATED -- The third and fourth of Bob's SciFiction stories are now available here on his official website! Click -- Melodies Played Upon Cold, Dark Worlds and Like, Need, Deserve. 8-20-2007: UPDATED -- Bob's "A Billion Eves" came in second place in voting in the novella category in the Asimov's Readers' Choice Awards for 2006 stories. 8-31-2007: UPDATED -- Chinese translation of Bob's "Pills Forever" his most read story ever? In the July, 2007 issue of Science Fiction World, translated by Wei Zhengyi. You can find details of the issue in English here: http://www.twelvehourslater.org/blog/2007/07/science-fiction-world-july-200.php Here's the page for the issue (in Chinese) on the official site: http://www.sfw-cd.com/messages/view.asp?id=729&big_class=7 ... Babel Fish can yield a better translation than Google (using the option for "Chinese-simp"). In particular, it renders Bob's name back into English correctly, rather than as "25,000". Here's a discussion of the story on the magazine's forum: http://www.sfw-cd.com/forum/view_topic.asp?forum_id=14&topic_id=470735 ...it's helpful to use both the Babel Fish and the Google translations in this case: [translated page] It's published in Chegdu, Sichuan in China. It's the largest-circulation SF magazine in the world, with way over 300,000 copies -- with three to five readers per copy. Which is why we suspect this is the most read thing he's ever written. Info on the magazine from SciFi weekly: http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue242/site.html ...and Wikipedia: http://www.sfw-cd.com/ |
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July 2007: The second of Bob's SciFiction stories is now available here on his official website! Click -- The Children's Crusade! 7-7-2007: Bob's "A Billion Eves" took 2nd place in the final voting for the Theodore Sturgeon Award, losing out to Robert Charles Wilson's "The Cartesian Theater". 7-20-2007: Bob's schedule for NASFIC/TuckerCon/Archon31
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6-29-07: UPDATED -- The first of Bob's SciFiction stories is now available here on his official website! Click -- Birdy Girl! |
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May 2007: Bob's Hugo-nominated story "A Billion Eves" has also now joined the short-list of finalists for the 2006 Theodore Sturgeon Award. Bob's been up for the award three times before, and had the 2nd runner-up two years ago with his chapbook Mere.
5-24-07: UPDATED: Escape Pod is podcasting one Hugo-Award short story nominee a week; Bob's "Eight Episodes" went up today ("Rated G: Contains mildly suggestive imagery, and not very good television."): http://escapepod.org/2007/05/24/ep107-eight-episodes/ ...and the text version is still available online here: http://asimovs.com/_issue_0704/8episodes.shtml "Eight Episodes" was narrated by MarBelle. You can read more by and about MarBelle at the weblog he contributes to: directors notes. Bob's fellow nominees in the short story category are: Benjamin Rosenbaum's "The House Beyond Your Sky" audio: http://escapepod.org/2007/05/17/ep106-the-house-beyond-your-sky/ text: http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20060904/house-f.shtml Tim Pratt's "Impossible Dreams": audio: http://escapepod.org/2007/05/10/ep105-impossible-dreams/ text: http://asimovs.com/_issue_0704/Impossibledreams.shtml Bruce McAllister's "Kin": audio: up soon... text: http://asimovs.com/_issue_0704/Kin.shtml Neil Gaiman has recorded "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" himself and put it up at his own site, along with the text: http://www.neilgaiman.com/exclusive/shortstories/partiesstory/document_view 5-29-07: UPDATED: Two of Bob's stories showed up as Science Fiction Story of the Day recommendations in May 2007. "Man for the Job" was the Story of the Day for May 23rd, and "Eight Episodes" was the Story of the Day for May 29th. By clicking the above links, you can visit the page on that Science Fiction Story of the Day site with information and comments about each of the stories. |
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4-23-07: UPDATED -- The story is now online! Click -- Wellsprings of Genius! |
3-28-07: Robert Reed received two official Hugo Award nominations once the official Final Ballot, was announced, on the Nippon 2007 site and in other web sources. Bob's nominations came for "A Billion Eves" (novella, Oct/Nov 2006 Asimov's -- now available in Science Fiction the Best of the Year: 2007 Edition, edited by Rich Horton, and the forthcoming The Best Short Novels: 2007, in May from the SFBC, and in September in bookstores), and "Eight Episodes" (short story, Jun 2006 Asimov's -- now available in the recently released The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 1, edited by Jonathan Strahan, and also appearing in the Asimov's 30th Anniversary Anthology, due out in July). There will most likely be links to on-line versions of the stories available shortly -- we'll connect to those once they're active. Note: Bob is one of only three authors to receive multiple nominations this year, and one of only two to receive two nominations in actual fiction-writing categories! [The other being Michael Flynn, for best Novel and Novelette] 4-5-07: UPDATED -- Bob's two nominated stories are now available for free online at the Asimov's website -- click the story titles in the article below! 4-6-07: UPDATED -- Bob's "A Billion Eves" gets a coveted positive mention at My Elves Are Different! Plus a nice comment at fellow nominee William Shunn's blog! You can check out a podcast of Shunn reading his own nominated novella -- Inclination. 4-22-07: UPDATED -- A brief interview piece appears in the Omaha World-Herald newspaper, in conjunction with Bob's two Hugo nominations. |
Bob's latest novel, The Well of Stars, is now out in paperback in the U.S. from Tor [ISBN 0-765-34764-4 $7.99] |
August 2006: "Misjudgement Day", in the August 2006 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, is Bob's 150th published short work of fiction. |
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March/April 2006: Bob was Author Guest of Honor at WillyCon VIII, a science fiction convention held March 31-April 2, 2006 at Wayne State College, in Wayne NE. |
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August 2009: Early this month, The Internet Review of Science Fiction featured a fairly long interview Bob gave to Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, under the title "
July 2009: Bob sold novelette "Pallbearers" to the Mike Ashley-edited anthology Apocalyptic SF, due out at an unspecified date in 2010.
3-19-2009: HUGO NOMINATIONS! Bob's story "Truth", which appeared in the Oct/Nov 2008 issue of Asimov's, has officially been nominated for a Hugo Award in the Best Novella category. The other nominees in this category this year are: "The Erdmann Nexus" by Nancy Kress; "The Political Prisoner" by Charles Coleman Finlay; "The Tear" by Ian McDonald; and "True Names" by Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow. You can read more at the 
February 2009: 2-2-2008: Locus Magazine announced its annual 
At the end of February, the editors of Drabblecast audio magazine announced that Bob's October 2008 story "Floating Over Time", which made its premiere appearance in any format as a audio podcast recording there, had been voted Story of the Year in Drabblecast's Annual People's Choice Awards. Bob's story beat out works by Mike Resnick, Janni Lee Simner, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jeff Soesbe and Michael Swanwick in the final voting results.
October 2008: Bob's all-new short story 
September 2008: Bob was tangentially involved in an injury suffered by Hollywood producer Joseph Malozzi, producer of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. You can read all about it in 
4-23-2008: UPDATED -- In honor of the 2nd annual International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Wretch Day, we've finished formatting Bob's 6th and 7th stories that originally appeared on scifiction.com, and you can now read 
2-25-2008: Artist Maurizio Manzieri 
1-2-2008: Bob's 1996 story, "First Tuesday" was available for free on the Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine's website as their online "fiction of the month" for January. Cover of that issue is at right -->.
September 2007: The Hugo Awards. The winners of this year's Hugo Awards (for works published in 2006) were announced September 1st at 
June 2007: After over a year of remaining dormant but still available, the content of the SciFiction website (hosted by the Sci Fi Channel) was finally removed from the internet in June 2007. Bob had seven stories published at SciFiction, and those stories will reappear here, free, on robertreedwriter.com over the course of the next few weeks.
March/April 2007: HUGO NOMINATIONS!!
February 2007: Robert Reed had one of the most impressive showings of any currently-published science fiction author in the 
October 2006: "A Billion Eves", in the October/November 2006 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, allows Bob to pass Isaac Asimov himself, to become the top contributor of short fiction to that magazine, based on the number of individual stories published.