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Rob Chilson


Born
in Ringwood, Oklahoma, The United States
May 19, 1945

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Science Fiction


I was born at home in Oklahoma, after my mother spent part of the morning hoeing in the garden. It was a pretty old-fashioned family even for that time (1945) and place. My father was a scarecrow. We subsequently moved to California, where my memories begin. I remember the first flake of snow I ever saw. (It disappeared before I got a good look at it.) Since then I've lost track of snowflakes; we moved back to Missouri (my mother's natal state) when I was eight, and I have been a confirmed Midwesterner ever since.

I decided, about age six, that I wanted to be a writer. I even wrote a couple of stories. I concluded that I was not yet ready to be a writer, so postponed it until I was grown up. At age eleven, I concluded that I now knew enough ...more

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Refuge (Isaac Asimov's Robo...
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The Year's Best Science Fic...
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Men Like Rats
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Isaac Asimov's Robot City 3
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Rounded With Sleep
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Black As Blood
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