I'm delighted to let everyone know that "The Hind," a generation-ship novelette written by myself and Kevin J. Anderson, won the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstell ar Writing. Canopus recognizes “the finest fiction and non-fiction works that expand our understanding of the challenges, opportunities, pitfalls, and rewards of interstellar... Continue reading

My story in the new Sunday Morning Transport, "To the Me an, went live on Sunday, Feb 26th. It's a time-travel story, set in a near future independent Scotland and third-century Roman Britain, in the time period when Emperor Septimius Severus came to Caledonia to conquer (temporarily) the restive tribes.... Continue reading

A Busy Year on the Writing Front Nonfiction/Essays Los Angeles Times: “What my son with Down syndrome taught me about baseball — and life” (https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2022-10-03/a-father-a-son-and-an-almost-perfect-day-of-baseball ) “The Spruce Goose, the Hollywood Stars, and America’s Nazis” (From Earth to the Stars blog) (https://fromearthtothestars.com/2022/08/04/the-spruce-goose-the-hollywood-stars-and-americas-nazis/ ) 3) “Q&A with Rick Wilber on ‘Blimpies’”... Continue reading

I recently had the chance to write an essay for the Los Angeles Times about my Down syndrome son, Richard Jr., and the baseball game we attended in August, in which Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Drew Rasmussen -almost- threw a perfect game. Had he done it, it would have been... Continue reading

Here's a fun interview I did with Asimov's Science Fiction magazine's excellent From Earth to the Stars blog. All about my "Billie the Kid," novella, where a teenage girl baseball shortstop for the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League in 1945 flies a B-25 to save the world, or... Continue reading

I'm really pleased to report that the Asimov's Science Fiction magazine Readers' Award winners were recently announced and my story, "The Hind," (co-authored with best-selling science fiction writer Kevin J. Anderson) won the award for best novelette. I'll paste in the complete winners' list below. "The Hind" is a generation-ship... Continue reading

I was really pleased to have a chance to talk with Ed and Lee at the Rare Book Cafe the other day. We talked about science fiction in general, my new ALIEN DAY novel in particular, but also about my fictional take on famous World War II baseball player and... Continue reading

I had a great interview the other day with Risingshadow.net, a top Science Fiction and Fantasy website, about my ALIEN DAY novel and also about my background in sports and fiction, my teaching at Western Colorado University, my short fiction in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, and much more. Here's the... Continue reading

Reviewer Ernest Lilley for Amazing Stories gives my Alien Day novel a great review and includes it in his short list of "Science Fiction to Look for in June 2021." Lilley is one of the first reviewers I've seen to focus on one of the overriding plot elements in this... Continue reading

Along with Twoclicks and all the rest of the characters in ALIEN DAY, I hope you’ll enjoy the wry and often darkly comic tone of this novel, and that you’ll find the book's gender-bending frolics (subtly handled, I’d like to think) as entertaining as the intense action scenes. This book... Continue reading

My new novel Alien Day is all about sibling rivalries, both human and alien. I write about Alien Day and Alien Morning (the first book in the series) in this post for the Tor/Forge blog, and then I mention some other classic science-fiction sibling stories and bring you up to... Continue reading

I'm very happy to report that the new issue of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine (May/June 2021) features the story, "Tin Man," by Rick Wilber and Brad Aiken. That's the second time Brad and I have collaborated on a story for Asimov's. The story, seen through the lens of baseball, is... Continue reading

Here's a teaser for you, the first chapter of my novel, Alien Day (Tor Books), coming out June 1 and available now for pre-pub sales on all the usual online bookstores. The novel is the sequel to 2016's Alien Morning, which was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial... Continue reading

I had a great time co-authoring this new novelette, "The Hind," with Kevin J. Anderson. Incredibly, for Kevin it was his first sale to Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. https://twitter.com/TheKJA/status/1326596986384994304?s=20 https://twitter.com/WilberSFWriter/status/1327230601846468609?s=20 Continue reading

I'm really pleased to see this great cover for Alien Day, which is in production and will be out on June 1, 2021 from Tor Books. The novel is the sequel to my Alien Morning novel (Tor 2016), which was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for... Continue reading

Like Kevin J. Anderson says below, when you're stuck at home you can at least let your imagination roam with this new SF Storybundle. Follow the link and name your own price! Yep, my new Rambunctious short-story collection is included. Kevin J. Anderson 2 hrs Why be stuck at home,... Continue reading

I'm really pleased to announce that today, Wednesday, March 25th 2020, is the launch day for my short-story collection, Rambunctious: Nine Tales of Determination, from WordFire Press. Pre-publication reviews and comments have been glowing and I'll paste some of those in below. The book gathers together nine of my personal... Continue reading

I woke up this first day of March in 2020 to a long and extremely perceptive Locus Magazine review of my Rambunctious: Nine Tales of Determination collection from WordFire Press. The book will be out in a few weeks and I'll be posting material from it and about it over... Continue reading

My new short-story collection, Rambunctious: Nine Tales of Determination will be out in spring 2020 in hardcover and other formats in spring 2020 from WordFire Press. The stories are some of my favorites, ranging from alternate history to science fiction to various kinds of fantasy, with women overcoming adversity to... Continue reading

"The Secret City," my story from the September/October 2018 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, has been named a finalist for the Sidewise Award, which each year honors the best alternate-history stories in both Short Form and Long Form. I'm delighted to be shortlisted for this great award! The story... Continue reading

I'm delighted to report that I am the editor of a reprint anthology, MAKING HISTORY: CLASSIC ALTERNATE HISTORY STORIES, that is now out in ebook form from New Word City publishers. A print edition will follow in a few weeks. I am the editor. Many of the stories were award... Continue reading

The Moe Berg Episodes: Alternate Histories of the Ballplayer and Spy, is available now in the Kindle store on Amazon and at other digital bookstores. The book reprints, in order of their appearance in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, my four alternate history stori es featuring a fictional version of the... Continue reading

I don't pay any attention to reviews except, when, like, you know, I do. So I'll admit to being pleased when a reviewer seems to find the same sweet spot in reading the story that I found when I writing it. In this case, over the past two or three... Continue reading