James Alan Gardner

James Alan Gardner (born January 10, 1955 in Bradford , Ontario ) is a Canadian science fiction writer.

Life

James Alan Gardner grew up in Bradford, Ontario, a town in the Greater Toronto Area and Simcoe , Ontario near Lake Erie , and lives in Kitchener / Waterloo , Ontario. He completed his studies in applied mathematics at the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Mathematics and a Master of Mathematics. In 1989 he completed the Clarion West Writers' Workshop . His teachers there were Orson Scott Card , Karen Jay Fowler , Connie Willis , Lucius Shepard , Amy Stout, and Roger Zelazny . At a Writers of the Future Workshop (registered trademark of Scientology ) his teacher was Algis Budrys .

Write

After writing for the mathematical journal and the theater group of the University of Waterloo, his short story won The Children of the Creche in 1990 the Gold Pen Award of the Writers and Illustrators of the Future . In 1991, his short story Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large won the Aurora Award , a Canadian science fiction prize. He won it again in 1998 for the short story Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Blood Stream . His short stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , Asimov's Science Fiction, On Spec, and various anthologies . His novel The Ray Gun: A Love Story won both the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Readers' Award in 2009 . He received the Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Readers' Award (also known as Asimov's Reader's Poll ) again in 2016 for his short story The Mutants Men Don't See .

His novels are set in the future and have a common background. Spaceflight is controlled by an alien race that is far ahead of humanity in its evolution. Recurring topics are gender roles and ethical behavior.

Gardner's influences include John Collier , Kurt Vonnegut, and Samuel R. Delany .

Works

Novels

• Expendable . Avon Eos, New York 1997, ISBN 978-0-380-79439-3 .
• Commitment Hour . Avon Eos, New York 1998, ISBN 978-0-380-79827-8 .
• Vigilante . Avon Eos, New York 1999, ISBN 978-0-380-80208-1 .
• Hunted . Avon Eos, New York 2000, ISBN 978-0-380-80209-8 .
• Ascending . Avon Eos, New York 2001, ISBN 978-0-380-81329-2 .
• Trapped . Avon Eos, New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-380-81330-8 .
• Radians . Avon Eos, New York 2004, ISBN 978-0-380-81332-2 .

Short story collections

• Gravity Wells . Avon Eos, New York 2005, ISBN 0-06-008770-6 . (contains 14 stories)

Web links

• James Alan Gardner in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• James Alan Gardner in the science fiction awards database (English)
• Works by and about James Alan Gardner at Open Library
• Homepage James Alan Gardners (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical entry on his website ( memento of the original from December 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)  
2. ↑ Profile page on the website of ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. HarperCollins (English) 
3. ^ Entry in the register of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
4. ↑ Interview from July 22, 2009 on the Nebula Awards website
5. ↑ Interview with James Alan Gardner by Ahmed A. Khan ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)  
6. ↑ The LOCUS Index to SF Awards ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)  
7. ↑ Interview from May 27, 1998 (English)