Rick Wilber

Rick Wilber's alternate-history stories about famous baseball player and spy Moe Berg have been appearing in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine and are gathered and reprinted in the Moe Berg Episodes. Rick's 2016 novel Alien Morning was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of the year. He has published more than fifty short stories, several novels, a memoir, two collections, and several college textbooks on writing and the mass media. Rick is a son of Major League Baseball player, coach, scout, and manager Del Wilber, and baseball is frequently found in Rick's stories and novels. He is a past winner of the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History. He is a visiting assistant professor of creative writing at Western State Colorado University's low-residency MFA program in genre fiction.