James Alan Gardner

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

Life

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

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After he had written for the mathematical journal and the theater group at the University of Waterloo, his short story The Children of the Creche 1989 won the Gold Award from the Writers of the Future. In 1991, he won with the short story Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large the Aurora Award, a Canadian science fiction price. Again he won this in 1998 for the short story Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream. His short stories appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov 's Science Fiction, On Spec, and various anthologies. His story, The Ray Gun: A Love Story won the 2009 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for both the and the Asimov 's Reader Poll.

His novels are set in the future and have a common background. Space flight is controlled by a race of aliens who is in their development of mankind far ahead. Recurring themes are gender roles and ethical behavior.

Among his influences counts Gardner 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.
  • Vigilant. 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.
  • Radiant. 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. (includes 14 stories )
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