Engineer/novelist/journalist/entrepreneur
Wil McCarthy is a former contributing editor for
WIRED magazine and science columnist for the SyFy channel. A lifetime member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, he has been nominated for the Nebula, Locus, Seiun, AnLab, Colorado Book, Theodore Sturgeon, and Philip K. Dick awards. His short fiction has graced the pages of
Analog, Asimov's, WIRED, and
SF Age, and his novels include the
New York Times Notable
Bloom, Amazon.com "Best of Y2K"
The Collapsium (a national bestseller),
To Crush the Moon, and
Antediluvian. He has also written for TV, appeared on The History Channel and The Science Channel, and published nonfiction in half a dozen magazines.
Previously a flight controller for Lockheed Martin Space Launch Systems and later an engineering manager for Omnitech Robotics and founder/president/CTO of Raven Brick LLC, McCarthy hold patents of his own in seven countries, including twenty-nine issued U.S. patents in the field of nanostructured optical materials.
