He called it The Macabre Reader and slapped this lurid neato cool Ed Emshwiller cover on it. But he brought me down with one anthology. Smith, Poul Anderson, Fred Pohl, and the rest. I was a good kid up till then, reading Ace Doubles and clean, wholesome science fiction stories by the likes of Heinlein, E. I was just a kid, a mere thirteen years old when he slipped me my first fix. In 2021, his ' Lipidleggin'' won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award.

In 2015 he received the third special Prometheus Award for Lifetime Achievement the previous two recipients were Poul Anderson and Vernor Vinge. The Libertarian Futurist Society has also honored Wilson with their Hall of Fame Award for Healer (in 1990) and An Enemy of the State (in 1991). He won the first Prometheus Award in 1979 for his novel Wheels Within Wheels and another in 2004 for Sims. Throughout his writing – especially in his earlier science fiction works (most notably An Enemy of the State) – Wilson has included explicitly libertarian political philosophy which extends to his 'Repairman Jack' series. Current books sales are around six million. Since then he has written one per year along with side trips into vampire fiction (the retro Midnight Mass), science fiction ( Sims), and even a New Age thriller ( The Fifth Harmonic). Unwilling to start a series character at the time, Wilson refused to write a second Repairman Jack novel until Legacies in 1998. Costello, created and scripted FTL Newsfeed, which ran daily on the Sci-Fi Channel from 1992 to 1996.Īmong Wilson's best-known characters is the anti-hero Repairman Jack, an urban mercenary introduced in the 1984 New York Times bestseller The Tomb.

In the 1990s, he moved from science fiction and horror to medical thrillers and interactive scripting for Disney Interactive and other multimedia companies. In 1981, he ventured into the horror genre with the international bestseller The Keep, which was adapted into a film in 1983. Wilson made his first sales in 1970 to Analog while still in medical school (graduating in 1973), and continued to write science fiction throughout the seventies. Wilson has won the Prometheus Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Inkpot Award from the San Diego ComiCon, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers of America, among other honors.

His books include the Repairman Jack novels-including Ground Zero, The Tomb, and Fatal Error-the Adversary cycle-including The Keep-and a young adult series featuring the teenage Jack. Francis Paul Wilson (born May 17, 1946, in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American medical doctor and author of horror, adventure, medical thrillers, science fiction, and other genres of literary fiction.

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