Background
Wil McCarthy was born on September 16, 1966, in Princeton, New Jersey, United States to the family of Michael and Evalyn McCarthy.
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States
Wil McCarthy graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1988. He majored in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering.
(An alien armada from the center of Orion makes its deadly...)
An alien armada from the center of Orion makes its deadly way through the galaxy, destroying all human life in the process, and only Marine Corporal Kenneth Jonson and the Aggressor Six team can stop the onslaught.
https://www.amazon.com/Aggressor-Six-Wil-McCarthy-ebook/dp/B006PV80F0/?tag=2022091-20
1994
(David Sanger, an ambitious young physicist, attends a par...)
David Sanger, an ambitious young physicist, attends a party at which a pompous older scientist, who just happens to have thrwarted the younger man's innovative ideas, is murdered. Suddenly it is not just David's career, but his life that is at stake. Are his ideas that important? Who's out to stop David from changing the world?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006PV80X2/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(The sequel to Aggressor Six, one of the major characters ...)
The sequel to Aggressor Six, one of the major characters is wakened from a two-thousand-year cryostatis and struggles to come to terms with the changes, including an unthinkable union. See what's happened to the humans and the Waisters now!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006VX3BVU/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(Mycora: technogenic life. Fast-reproducing, fast-mutating...)
Mycora: technogenic life. Fast-reproducing, fast-mutating, and endlessly voracious. In the year 2106, these microscopic machine/creatures have escaped their creators to populate the inner solar system with a wild, deadly ecology all their own, pushing the tattered remnants of humanity out into the cold and dark of the outer planets. Even huddled beneath the ice of Jupiter's moons, protected by a defensive system known as the Immunity, survivors face the constant risk of mycospores finding their way to the warmth and brightness inside the habitats, resulting in a calamitous "bloom." But the human race still has a trick or two up its sleeves; in a ship specially designed to penetrate the deadly Mycosystem, seven astronauts are about to embark on mankind's boldest venture yet - the perilous journey home to infected Earth! Yet it is in these remote conditions, against a virtually omnipotent foe, that we discover how human nature plays the greatest role in humanity's future.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006PV826W/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(In this stunningly original tale, acclaimed author Wil Mc...)
In this stunningly original tale, acclaimed author Wil McCarthy imagines a wondrous future in which the secrets of matter have been unlocked and death itself is but a memory. But it is also a future imperiled by a bitter rivalry between two brilliant scientists - one perhaps the greatest genius in the history of humankind; the other, its greatest monster. The Collapsium In a world of awesome technology, the deadly substance called collapsium has given humans all the powers and caprices--including immortality - of the gods they once worshiped. Composed of miniature black holes, collapsium allows the instantaneous transmission of information and matter - as well as humans - throughout the solar system. But while its reclusive inventor, Bruno de Towaji, next dreams of probing the farthest reaches of spacetime, Marlon Sykes, his ambitious rival in science - and in love - has built an awesome telecommunications network by constructing a ring of collapsium around the sun. It appears Sykes may be the victor - until a ruthless saboteur attacks the ring and sends it falling toward the sun. Now the two scientists must put aside personal animosity to prevent the destruction of the solar system - and every living thing within it.
https://www.amazon.com/Collapsium-Queendom-Sol-Wil-McCarthy/dp/055358443X/?tag=2022091-20
2002
(In his Nebula Award-nominated novel, The Collapsium, accl...)
In his Nebula Award-nominated novel, The Collapsium, acclaimed author Wil McCarthy introduced a richly imagined future of boundless possibility, where poverty, war, and even death are banished forever. Only now that world’s exquisite perfection propels one restless young man toward the ultimate challenge. The Wellstone For the children of immortal parents, growing up can be hard to do. A prince will forever be a prince -leaving no chance for Bascal Edward de Towaji Lutui to inherit his parents’ throne. So what is an angry young blue blood to do? Punch a hole in the shadow he’s been living in by rallying his equally disgruntled companions to make an improbable spaceship, busting out of the so-called summer camp in which their parents have stowed them and making a daring escape across the vastness of space. Ne’er-do-well Conrad Mursk is just along for the joyride - until he realizes this is no typical display of teenage angst. The children are rising up in an honest-to-gods revolution. And, boyo, things are going to get raw.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553584464/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(Programmable matter is probably not the next technologica...)
Programmable matter is probably not the next technological revolution, nor even perhaps the one after that. But it's coming, and when it does, it will change our lives as much as any invention ever has. Imagine being able to program matter itself-to change it, with the click of a cursor, from hard to soft, from paper to stone, from fluorescent to super-reflective to invisible. Supported by organizations ranging from Levi Strauss and IBM to the Defense Department, solid-state physicists in renowned laboratories are working to make it a reality. In this dazzling investigation, Wil McCarthy visits the laboratories and talks with the researchers who are developing this extraordinary technology, describes how they are learning to control it, and tells us where all this will lead.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465044298/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(In a novel that challenges our expectations at every turn...)
In a novel that challenges our expectations at every turn, acclaimed author Wil McCarthy sweeps us into the future as only he can imagine it. Here is a thrilling odyssey of discovery and adventure aboard a ship of exiled rebels coming of age in an eternity that may be a lot shorter than anyone ever guessed. Brash and idealistic, they were rebels without a cause in a world governed by science, reason, and immortality. Banished for their troubles to the starship Newhope, they now face a bold future: to settle the worlds of Barnard’s Star. Now King Bascal Edward de Towaji Lutui, former prince of the Queendom of Sol, together with Captain Xiomara “Xmary” Li Weng and her lover, first mate Conrad Mursk, face a perilous voyage with thousands of their fellow exiles. The journey will last a century, but with Queendom technology, it’s no problem to step into a fax machine and “print” a fresh, youthful version of yourself. But what this crew of rebels will find is far from the paradise they seek. Before long, their optimistic young colony has started to show signs of strain. And worst of all, death itself has returned with a vengeance.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553584472/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(Once the Queendom of Sol was a glowing monument to humank...)
Once the Queendom of Sol was a glowing monument to humankind’s loftiest dreams. Ageless and immortal, its citizens lived in peaceful splendor. But as Sol buckled under the swell of an immorbid population, space itself literally ran out. Conrad Mursk has returned to Sol on the crippled starship Newhope. His crew are the frozen refugees of a failed colony known as Barnard’s Star. A thousand years older, Mursk finds Sol on the brink of rebellion, while a fanatic necro cult is reviving death itself. Now Mursk and his lover, Captain Xiomara “Xmary” Li Weng, are sent on a final, desperate mission by King Bruno de Towaji–one of the greatest terraformers of the ages - to literally crush the moon. If they succeed, they’ll save billions of lost souls. If they fail, they’ll strand humanity between death–and something unimaginably worse.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/055358717X/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(Forty light years from earth, the colonists on the world ...)
Forty light years from earth, the colonists on the world of Unua have somehow managed to keep civilization struggling on, despite twice daily earthquakes and technology lagging far behind that of the mother planet. But now an Unuan mining expedition has discovered an alien mineral they name centrokrist - a stone of incomparable beauty. Yet when the Earth scientists, at last, arrive to investigate, they find a phenomenon eclipsing this discovery. For this double-sunned solar system is nestled right next to a black hole, and waiting for them on the verge of the black hole's event horizon is an alien artifact that can't possibly exist!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006PV81FY/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(What if all our legends are true? A rousing, fast-paced n...)
What if all our legends are true? A rousing, fast-paced novel of time travel unlike any other, from acclaimed author Wil McCarthy. What if our legends are older than we think? All the Stone Age has left behind are rocks and bones; all other materials have rotted away, leaving no trace. But what if “cave men” never existed, and the Stone Age was a time of great sophistication still preserved in our oldest stories? In a brilliant and dangerous brain hacking experiment, Harv Leonel and Tara Mukherjee are about to discover entire lifetimes of human memory coded in our genes, and reveal ancient legends - from knights and trolls, to flood myths, to the birth of humanity itself - that are as real as they are deadly. Before disaster erased the coastlines and river valleys of the Antediluvian age - before the Flood - men and women struggled and yearned and innovated in a world of savage contrasts into which Harv and Tara are thrust, unprepared. Will their science be enough to save them?
https://www.amazon.com/Antediluvian-Wil-McCarthy/dp/1481484311/?tag=2022091-20
2019
engineer patent agent writer author
Wil McCarthy was born on September 16, 1966, in Princeton, New Jersey, United States to the family of Michael and Evalyn McCarthy.
Wil McCarthy graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1988. He majored in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering.
Wil McCarthy has an extremely diverse technical background, having worked as an aerospace and robotics engineer, a full-time science fiction writer and science journalist (for places like WIRED, Discover, and Popular Mechanics), and a materials scientist and inventor/entrepreneur who has raised more than 25 million dollars in venture capital. Wil has published 10 books and hundreds of articles, holds patents in his own name in seven countries, has written and prosecuted nearly 30 issued United States patents, and has drafted more than 60 provisional and non‐provisional patent applications, including background, specification, drawings, claims, and abstracts.
Wil McCarthy uses scientific knowledge to create very realistic projections in science-driven fantasy fiction. McCarthy began his writing career during his teenage years and continued writing in college, winning several awards for his fantasy-oriented short stories.
(Forty light years from earth, the colonists on the world ...)
2009(An alien armada from the center of Orion makes its deadly...)
1994(In his Nebula Award-nominated novel, The Collapsium, accl...)
2003(The sequel to Aggressor Six, one of the major characters ...)
1996(David Sanger, an ambitious young physicist, attends a par...)
1996(In this stunningly original tale, acclaimed author Wil Mc...)
2002(In a novel that challenges our expectations at every turn...)
2004(What if all our legends are true? A rousing, fast-paced n...)
2019(Programmable matter is probably not the next technologica...)
2004(Once the Queendom of Sol was a glowing monument to humank...)
2005(Mycora: technogenic life. Fast-reproducing, fast-mutating...)
1998Wil McCarthy finds Libertarianism an appealing political and economic ideology.
Besides day job and writing Wil McCarthy is involved in nationally competitive dragon boat racing and active in the local startup community.
Wil McCarthy used to be married to a woman named Kumiko. They divorced in 1990. He later married Cathy Polk. He has a son Quentin.