Lost in Transmission

about the author

Engineer/novelist/journalist Wil McCarthy is a contributing editor for Wired magazine and the science columnist for the SciFi Channel, where his popular “Lab Notes” column has been running since 1999. A lifetime member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, he has been nominated for the Nebula, Locus, AnLab and Theodore Sturgeon awards. His short fiction has graced the pages of Analog, Asimov's, Wired, SF Age, and other major magazines and anthologies, and his novels include the New York Times Notable Book Bloom, Amazon.com's “Best of Y2K” The Collapsium (a national bestseller) and, most recently, The Wellstone.

Previously one of those “guidance is go” people for Lockheed Martin Space Launch Systems, and later an engineering manager for Omnitech Robotics, McCarthy is currently the Chief Technology Officer for Galileo Shipyards, an aerospace research corporation with projects ranging from rockets to high-altitude balloons to quantum nanoelectronics. He can be found online at www.wilmccarthy.com.