Rick Wilber


Rick Wilber is an American author, poet, editor and teacher. His novel, "Alien Morning", was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of 2016, and other novels include "The Cold Road", and "Rum Point". He has published more than fifty short stories, novelettes or novellas in magazines such as Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, Analog magazine, Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, Stonecoast Review, Gulf Stream Review, Pulphouse, and others; and in numerous anthologies. His other books include the memoir, My Father's Game: Life, Death, Baseball ;several college textbooks, including "Media Matters,", Modern Media Writing, Magazine Feature Writing," and "The Writer's Handbook for Editing and Revision"; and the collections, "Where Garagiola Waits", and "To Leuchars".
Wilber is the editor of several anthologies including "Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange an Supernatural", Subtropical Speculations: An Anthology of Florida Science Fiction and Future Media''. His short story "Something Real" won the 2012 Sidewise Award for Alternate History, Short Form.
He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the low-residency MFA program at Western Colorado State University, and an adjunct in creative writing at Florida Gulf Coast University. He was previously a director, instructor, and assistant professor at the University of South Florida, and prior to that an assistant professor at Florida Southern College and Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.
Wilber's father was baseball player Del Wilber, which has influenced much of his writing, both fictional and non-fictional.

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Horatio Hornblower and the Songs of Innocence????????
Seven Sisters2000

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