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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 one of the nominees on the finalist list for the Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2007. |
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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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Bob confirmed the sale of novelette "American Cheetah" to the Nick Gevers-edited anthology Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology, due from Solaris in September 2008. 
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.