2 books by James Alan Gardner
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Overview: James Alan Gardner (born January 10, 1955) is a Canadian science fiction author. Raised in Simcoe and Bradford, Ontario, he earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Applied Mathematics from the University of Waterloo. Gardner has published science fiction short stories in a range of periodicals, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Amazing Stories. In 1989, his short story "The Children of Creche" was awarded the Grand Prize in the Writers of the Future contest. Two years later his story "Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large" won a Prix Aurora Award; another story, "Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream," won an Aurora and was nominated for both the Nebula and Hugo Awards.
He has written a number of novels in a "League of Peoples" universe in which murderers are defined as "dangerous non-sentients" and are killed if they try to leave their solar system by aliens who are so advanced that they think of humans like humans think of bacteria. This precludes the possibility of interstellar wars.
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Gravity Wells: Speculative Fiction Stories: Award-winning author James Alan Gardner evokes a sense of wonder that is synonymous with great speculative fiction. Now, in his first short-story collection, he brings together the numerous tales that have made his reputation, ranging from the everyday experience to the cosmic, from peanut butter sandwiches to space drives. There are stories of wonder, imagination, humanity, and the unknown and tales that remind us of the importance of possibility.
Some of the stories in this collection have won the Aurora Award and the grand prize in the prestigious Writers of the Future contest and been nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, while others are completely new and undiscovered.
Contents:
Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large (1990)
The Children of Crèche (1990)
Kent State Descending the Gravity Well: An Analysis of the Observer (1992)
Withered Gold, the Night, the Day (2005)
The Last Day of the War, with Parrots (1995)
A Changeable Market in Slaves (2005)
Reaper (1991)
Lesser Figures of the Greater Trumps (2005)
Shadow Album (1991)
Hardware Scenario G-49 (1991)
The Reckoning of Gifts (1992)
The Young Person’s Guide to the Organism (1992)
Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream (1997)
Sense of Wonder (1998)
Fire and Dust: Someone is blowing up the headquarters of factions in Sigil. As part of a multi-faction team, Britlin Cavendish (artist, swordsman, and Sensate) gets drafted to stake out the Mortuary and keep an eye out for trouble. One fire bomb later, Britlin and his companions are fighting wights that don’t obey the Death Pact, on a trail that leads from the Plane of Dust to Carceri, Plague-Mort, and many strange places in between.
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