F. Paul Wilson Biography

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Francis Paul Wilson (b. May 17, 1946) is an author, born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He writes novels and short stories primarily in the science fiction and horror genres. His debut novel was Healer (1976). Wilson is also a practicing osteopathic family physician, having graduated from the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine with a D.O. degree in 1973.

Among Wilson's best-known characters is the anti-hero Repairman Jack. Throughout his writing â?? especially in his earlier science fiction works (most notably An Enemy of the State) â?? Wilson has included explicitly libertarian political philosophy which extends to his "Repairman Jack" series. He won the first Prometheus Award in 1979 for his novel Wheels Within Wheels and one of the most recent (2004) for Sims. The Libertarian Futurist Society has also honored Wilson with their Hall of Fame Award for Healer (in 1990) and An Enemy of the State (in 1991).

Wilson is a noted fan of the horror great H. P. Lovecraft and has written more than a few Cthulhu Mythos stories and novels.

Like most American science fiction writers directly or indirectly influenced by Campbell's view of the genre as a literature of ideas, Wilson makes use of his work to speculatively explore trends and technologies as they manifest. A prominent example is his novel An Enemy of the State (published in 1980), which was written during the 1970s, an era that saw stagflation develop in the U.S. economy. In that period, inflation in the United States reached its highest level since World War II, due entirely to the incontinent issue of fiat money by the Federal Reserve. In Wilson's novel, he extends the "squeeze" of confiscatory taxation and currency debauchment to a conclusion involving a Weimar Republic-style hyperinflation that brings down a galactic empire â?? and from which humanity's only hope of rescue arrives in the form of an anarchist conspiracy to complete the Empire's downfall and replace that government's "official counterfeit" with honest money. Throughout this tense and well-written cautionary tale, Wilson runs chapter headings quoting from economic works such as Fiat Money Inflation in France[1], enabling the reader to readily understand that the government's "monetary policy" is simply another kind of thieving government confidence game.

The Keep was later made into a movie and there is much talk of a Repairman Jack film based on one or more of Wilson's novels.

Novels

The Adversary Cycle

• The Keep (1981), ISBN 0-688-00626-4
  
• The Tomb (1984), ISBN 0-918372-11-9 (re-released in 2004 under its original title, Rakoshi, by Borderlands Press)
  
• The Touch (1986), ISBN 0-515-08733-5
  
• Reborn (1990), ISBN 0-913165-52-2
  
• Reprisal (1991), ISBN 0-913165-59-X
  
• Nightworld (1992), ISBN 0-913165-71-9
  

Repairman Jack

1. The Tomb (1984), ISBN 0-918372-11-9 (re-released in 2004 under its original title, Rakoshi, by Borderlands Press)
   
2. Legacies (1998), ISBN 0-312-86414-0
   
3. Conspiracies (1999), ISBN 0-312-86797-2
   
4. All The Rage (2000), ISBN 0-312-86796-4
   
5. Hosts (2001), ISBN 0-312-87866-4
   
6. The Haunted Air (2002), ISBN 0-312-87868-0
   
7. Gateways (2003), ISBN 0-7653-0690-5
   
8. Crisscross (2004), ISBN 0-7653-0691-3
   
9. Infernal (2005), ISBN 0-7653-1275-1
   
10. Harbingers (2006), ISBN 0-7653-1276-X
    
11. Bloodline (2007)
    

LaNague Federation

1. Healer (1976), ISBN 0-385-11548-2 (reprinted in 2005, includes "To Fill the Sea and Air" ISBN 0-9766544-1-5)
   
2. Wheels Within Wheels (1978), ISBN 0-385-14397-4 (revised/reprinted in 2005, includes "Higher Centers" and "The Man with the Anteater" ISBN 0-9766544-3-1)
   
3. An Enemy of the State (1980), ISBN 0-385-15422-4 (reprinted in 2005, includes "Lipidleggin'" and "Ratman" ISBN 0-9766544-2-3)
   

• Dydeetown World (1989), ISBN 0-671-69828-1
  
• The Tery (1990), ISBN 0-671-69855-9 (revised in 2006, ISBN 1-892950-32-4)
  
• LaNague Chronicles (1992), ISBN 0-671-72139-9 (includes An Enemy of the State, Wheels Within Wheels and Healer)
  

Others

• Black Wind (1988), ISBN 0-312-93064-X
  
• Soft and Others (1989), ISBN 0-312-93117-4 (short story collection)
  
• Sibs (1991), ISBN 0-913165-61-6
  
• Freak Show (1992), ISBN 0-671-69574-6 (contributor and editor)
  
• The Select (1994), ISBN 0-688-04618-5
  
• Implant (1995), ISBN 0-312-89034-6
  
• Virgin (1996), ISBN 0-425-15124-7 (as Mary Elizabeth Murphy)
  
• Mirage (1996), ISBN 0-446-51976-6 (with Matthew J. Costello)
  
• Deep as the Marrow (1997), ISBN 0-312-86264-4
  
• Nightkill (1997), ISBN 0-312-85910-4 (with Steve Lyon)
  
• Masque (1998), ISBN 0-446-51977-4 (with Matthew J. Costello)
  
• The Barrens and Others (1998), ISBN 0-312-86416-7 (short story collection)
  
• The Fifth Harmonic (2003), ISBN 1-57174-386-3
  
• Sims (2003), ISBN 0-7653-0551-8
  
• Artifact (2003), ISBN 0-7653-0063-X (with Kevin J. Anderson, Janet Berlinger and Matthew J. Costello)
  
• Midnight Mass (2004), ISBN 0-7653-0705-7
  
• Aftershock and Others (2007), (short story collection)
  

Interviews

• Interview on wotmania.com
  

External links

• Official Repairman Jack site
  
• Unofficial F. Paul Wilson FAQ
  
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• Black Wind (1988) - book review
  

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