Rick Wilber

Rick Wilber is an American author, poet, and editor. He has published more than thirty-five short stories in magazines such as Aboriginal SF, Analog, Asimov's Science Fiction, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Pulphouse, and SF Age; and in anthologies such as Alien Sex and Chrysalis. In addition to his short stories, he has written the novels Rum Point and The Cold Road, as well as a memoir, My Father's Game: Life, Death, Baseball, and several textbooks, including Modern Media Writing and Magazine Feature Writing.

Wilber is the editor of anthologies including Subtropical Speculations: An Anthology of Florida Science Fiction (1991) and Future Media (2011).^[1] His short story "Something Real" won the 2013 Sidewise Award for Alternate History, Short Form.^[2]

He currently lives in Florida where he teaches Mass Communications at the University of South Florida.^[3]

Wilber's father was baseball player Del Wilber, which has influenced much of his writing, both fictional ("Where Garagiola Waits") and non-fictional (My Father's Game).

Bibliography

Short fiction

• Wilber, Richard (1980). "Horatio Hornblower and the Songs of Innocence". In Torgeson, Roy. Chrysalis 6. Zebra Books. ISBN 0-89083-567-5. 
• Thinking of Romance (1981)
• Waiting for the Call (1982)
• Suffer the Children (1988)
• Mary Alice Blue Eyes (1989)
• War Bride (1990)
• Helmet (1991)
• Greggie's Cup (1992)
• Calculating Love (1992)
• Ice Covers the Hole (1992)
• Being Ernest (1993)
• With Twoclicks Watching (1993)
• A Falling Out (1993)
• Bridging (1994)
• Hope as an Element of Cold Dark Matter (1994)
• American Jokes (1994)
• With White Deer Gone (1994)
• Elements of Self-Destruction (1995)
• Virolec and the Beast (1995)
• Hope As an Element of Cold, Dark Matter (1995)
• Mounting the Monkeys (1995)
• Swimming with Gort (1995)
• Run Down West (1996)
• The Babe, the Iron Horse, and Mr. McGillicuddy (1997) with Ben Bova
• Where Garagiola Waits (1997)
• Straight Changes (1998)
• In Boise (1999)
• Imagine Jimmy (1999)
• In Boise (2000)
• Stephen to Cora to Joe, or, the Truth As I Know It, or, Shifty Paradigms: The Use of Literary Icons and Sports Motifs in Speculative Fiction (2000)
• Seven Sisters (2000)
• To Leuchars (2000)
• Arribada (2000)
• Blind Spot (2010) with Nicholas A. DiChario
• Several Items of Interest (2010)
• Something Real (2012)
• Wilber, Rick (July 2013). "At Palomar". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (7): 84–106. 

Collections

• Where Garagiola Waits, and Other Baseball Stories (1999)
• To Leuchars (2003)

Novels

• Rum Point (2009)
• The Cold Road (2003)

Poetry

• The Impaler in Love (1991)
• A Falling Out (1993)
• The Murderer Explains (1994)
• Deposed, He Remembers Her on the Morning of His Death (1995)
• Following Her Divorce (1995)
• Metaphysics at the Planetarium (1995)
• Homer (1997)

Nonfiction

• Subtropical Speculations: An Anthology of Florida Science Fiction (Richard Mathews and Rick Wilber, 1991)
• Magazine Feature Writing (1994)
• The Writer's Handbook for Editing & Revision (Aug 1996)
• Modern Media Writing (by Rick Wilber and Randy Miller, 2002)
• My Father's Game: Life, Death, Baseball (November 12, 2007)
• Future Media (2011, published by Tachyon Publications.)
• Media Matters (forthcoming)

References