Rick Wilber is an award-winning writer, editor and teacher who has published more than fifty short stories, several novels and short-story collections, three edited anthologies, a memoir, and a half-dozen college textbooks on writing and the mass media. Alien Morning, his recent novel for Tor Books, is the first of a trilogy based on his long-running S’hudonni Empire series of stories, featuring a jovial but deadly alien named Twoclicks, his shape-changing sidekick, and an all-too human journalist from Earth, Peter Holman, a one-time professional athlete turned celebrity journo who goes to work for the S’hudonni as their media interface with Earth. The novel was a finalist for the 2016 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction novel of 2016. Rick is at work on the next book in the trilogy, Alien Day. Among works in progress for 2018 are the books Making History: Classic Alternate History Stories(New Word City, 2018); an ebook and trade paperback edition of The Wandering Warriors (New Word City, 2018) co-authored with Alan Smale; the short-story collection Several Items of Interest and Other Stories(New Word City 2018); and the collection Something Real: Alternate Histories of Baseball Player and Spy Moe Berg (New Word City, 2018). The Making History reprint anthology includes classic stories from Karen Joy Fowler, Gregory Benford, Sheila Finch, Rich Larson, Lisa Goldstein, Kathleen Goonan, Harry Turtledove, Eileen Gunn and Michael Swanwick, Maureen McHugh, Nisi Shawl, Alan Smale, Walter Jon Williams, Michaela Roessner, Louise Marley, Ben Loory, Nicholas DiChario, and Michael Bishop.

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