Will McIntosh

Will McIntosh (William D. McIntosh, born January 31, 1962 in New York City) is a science fiction and young adult author, a Hugo-Award-winner, and a winner or finalist for many other awards. Along with ten novels, including Defenders, Love Minus Eighty, and Burning Midnight, he has published dozens of short stories in magazines such as Asimov's Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed Magazine, Clarkesworld, and Interzone. His stories are frequently reprinted in different "Year's Best" anthologies.

Will McIntosh
Born	William D. McIntosh (1962-01-31) January 31, 1962 (age 62) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Author, social psychologist
Education	University of Georgia (PhD)
Genre	Science fiction

Life

McIntosh attended the University of Georgia, where he received a Ph.D. in social psychology in 1990. He was a professor at Georgia Southern, where he taught psychology classes.^[1] His research focused on topics such as internet dating and romantic relationships, "happiness and goals, collecting behavior, psychological aspects of film and television, and the relationship between psychology and Zen Buddhism."^[2] In 2012, McIntosh moved to the College of William and Mary to teach introductory psychology classes and focus on his writing.

Writing

McIntosh attended the Clarion Workshop in 2003. McIntosh's short story "Soft Apocalypse" was shortlisted for both the British Science Fiction Award and the British Fantasy Award. His story "Bridesicle" won both the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Short Story^[3] and the 2010 Asimov's Reader Poll, along with being a finalist for that year's Nebula Award, while his story "Over There" won the 2014 Asimov's Reader Poll, and was a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award in 2014.^[4]

His short story "Followed" was adapted into a film by director James Kicklighter in 2011.

Translations of McIntosh's novels have been published in China, Russia, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Taiwan, and Hungary.

Bibliography

Novels

• Soft apocalypse. Night Shade Books. 2011.
• Hitchers. Night Shade Books. 2012.
• Love Minus Eighty (novel) Orbit Books, June 2013
• Defenders (novel) Orbit Books, May 2014
• Burning Midnight Delacorte Press, March 2016
• Faller Tor Books, October 2016
• Unbreakable Character Force, June 2017
• Watchdog Delacorte Press, October 2017
• The Future Will Be BS Free Delacorte Press, July 2018
• The Classmate Future House Publishing, March 2022
• Wild, June 2023

Short fiction

Stories^{[lower-alpha 1]}

• "Under the Boardwalk", Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue 19, 2005
• "Soft Apocalypse", Interzone, Sept/Oct 2005^{[lower-alpha 2]}
• "Totems", Interzone, Jan/Feb 2005
• "New Spectacles", Abyss & Apex^{[lower-alpha 3]}
• "Friction", Albedo One, Issue 30
• "Best Friend", ChiZine, Jan-March 2006
• "Followed", Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, June, 2006^{[lower-alpha 4]}
• "The Last Cyberpunk", Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue 22, 2006
• "The New Chinese Wives", Interzone, Sept/Oct 2006
• "Perfect Violet", On Spec, Summer, 2007^{[lower-alpha 5]}
• "Three Unlikely Futures", Postscripts, Autumn, 2007
• "Dada Jihad", Interzone, Sept/Oct 2007
• "One Paper Airplane Graffito Love Note", Strange Horizons, Oct. 2007
• "Unlikely", Asimov's Science Fiction, Jan. 2008^{[lower-alpha 6]}
• "The Fantasy Jumper", Black Static, Feb., 2008^{[lower-alpha 7]}
• "Linkworlds", Strange Horizons, March 2008^{[lower-alpha 8]}
• "Street Hero", Interzone, Mar/April 2008
• "A Clown Escapes from Circus Town", Interzone, Mar/April 2009
• "Midnight Blue", Asimov's Science Fiction, Sept. 2008^{[lower-alpha 9]}
• "None Had Sharp Teeth", Black Static, 2009
• "Bridesicle", Asimov's Science Fiction, Jan. 2009^{[lower-alpha 10]}
• "Frankenstein, Frankenstein", Asimov's Science Fiction, Oct./Nov. 2010
• "Defenders", Lightspeed Magazine, August 2011
• "Possible Monsters", Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2012
• "Over There", Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2013^{[lower-alpha 11]}
• "Dry Bite", Lightspeed Magazine, Sept. 2013
• "The Savannah Liars Tour", Lightspeed Magazine, Jan. 2016
• "Lost: Mind", Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2016
• "Soulmates.com", Asimov's Science Fiction, March/April 2017^{[lower-alpha 12]}
• "What Is Eve?", Lightspeed Magazine, April 2018
• "Foot Ball", Future SF, Aug. 2019
• "Nic and Viv's Compulsory Courtship", Asimov's Science Fiction, July/Aug. 2020
• "Philly Killed His Car", Asimov's Science Fiction, July/Aug. 2021
• "Mom Heart", Clarkesworld Magazine, November, 2021
• "Dollbot Cicily", Asimov's Science Fiction, March/April 2022
• "Work Minus Eighty", Asimov's Science Fiction, July/August 2022

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
Over there	2013	McIntosh, Will (January 2013). "Over there". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (1): 32–49.
Scout	2014	McIntosh, Will (April–May 2014). "Scout". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (4&5): 53–61.
A thousand nights till morning	2015	McIntosh, Will (August 2015). "A thousand nights till morning". Asimov's Science Fiction. 39 (8): 64–105.		Novella

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Bibliography notes

1. Short stories unless otherwise noted.
2. Finalist for the 2005 British Science Fiction Award and the 2005 British Fantasy Award; Reprinted in Galaxies (France).
3. Reprinted in The Best of Abyss & Apex.
4. Reprinted in The Living Dead, John Joseph Adams, editor, 2008.
5. Reprinted in Science Fiction: Best of the Year 2008.
6. Reprinted in New Horizons #1, Isli (Russian), Sci Fi Magazin,(Romania), Galaxies, (France).
7. Reprinted in Science Fiction: Best of the Year 2009.
8. Reprinted in Unplugged: The Year's Best Online Fiction, 2009.
9. Reprinted in Russian in Isli.
10. Winner of the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Short Story; winner of the 2010 Asimov's Reader Poll; finalist for the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
11. Finalist, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, 2014.
12. Reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2018.

References

1. Psychology Department Faculty Page, Georgia Southern, accessed Dec. 3, 2010.
2. Psychology Department Faculty Page, Georgia Southern, accessed Dec. 3, 2010. Archived 2012-08-26 at the Wayback Machine
3. 2010 Hugo Award winners, Locus Magazine, Sept. 5, 2010, accessed Dec. 3, 2010.
4. Locus Index to SF Awards, Entry for Will McIntosh, accessed Dec. 3, 2010.

External links

• Will McIntosh official website
• Will McIntosh at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Hugo Award interview with Will McIntosh Archived 2010-08-16 at the Wayback Machine
• PDF of McIntosh's Hugo Award winning short story, "Bridesicle" Archived 2012-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
• Story behind Love Minus Eighty - essay Archived 2013-07-04 at the Wayback Machine