Robert Reed

Robert Reed has enjoyed a remarkable career. He has published nearly 300 stories, appearing in virtually every science fiction market. No other author has sold as many titles to ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION, and that’s by a long measure. Nominated for eight Hugo Awards, two Nebula Awards, and one World Fantasy Award, Reed won the Hugo for “A Billion Eves” in 2007. His novels have done well critically, and his Greatship novels -- MARROW and THE WELL OF STARS -- have enjoyed long, robust lifespans. The time travel novella, “Truth,” was made into a small and dark Canadian film, PRISONER X. And the old man was fortunate enough to play a tiny but profitable role in the production of the first DESTINY game. Robert Reed has weathered a long career without ever reaching the upper tier of his profession. His short fiction as well as the novels often take place in different universes, unleashing wide-ranging premises and voices, and sometimes, an absence of happy endings. These are not the tactics that build a literary brand. Reed’s literary agent once confessed that when reading her authors’ works, she could always tell which characters they liked and who they didn’t approve of … except in the case of his work. Reed writes about psychopaths and idiots, gods and flawed, doomed souls, and starting any new project, he often has no idea how things will end. Without question, Mr. Reed’s best known series involves the Greatship -- a Uranus-sized starship, ancient and found empty between the galaxies. Claimed and operated by immortal humans, the Ship spends the next one hundred thousand years wandering the Milky Way, acquiring an array of remarkable alien passengers. And then disaster strikes on several fronts, and the Ship is again flung into the emptiest reaches of space. A tally of Greatship stories to date: “Alone” “Hoop-of-Benzene” “Mere” “The Remoras” “The Residue of Fire” “Aeon’s Child” “Rococo” “River of the Queen” “Night of Time” “Parables of Infinity” “Noumenon” “The Caldera of Good Fortune” “Precious Mental” “Katabasis” “The Speed of Belief” “Camouflage” “The Man With the Golden Balloon” “Sarcophagus” “The Cryptic Age” “Marrow Redux” “Eater-of-bone” “Hatch” “Good Mountain” “Kingfisher” THE MEMORY OF SKY THE DRAGONS OF MARROW Robert Reed lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife and daughter.