James Alan Gardner
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James Alan Gardner (born January 10, 1955)<ref name=ISFD>Template:ISFDB name</ref> is a Canadian science fiction author.
Early life and education
Born in Simcoe, Ontario,<ref name=ISFD/><ref name=encyc>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> he attended the University of Waterloo, where he published his first story, "The Phantom of the Operator", in 1984.<ref name=encyc/>
Career
Gardner has published science fiction short stories in a range of periodicals, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Amazing Stories.
He has written a number of novels in a "League of Peoples" universe in which humans encounter highly advanced aliens that define murderers as "dangerous non-sentients" and kill them if they try to leave their solar system.<ref name=encyc/>
He has also explored themes of gender in novels including Commitment Hour in which people reaching adulthood must choose their gender,<ref name=encyc/> and Vigilant, in which group marriages are traditional.
Gardner is also an educator and technical writer, and published the textbook Learning UNIX in 1991.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Awards
Template:BLP unreferenced section In 1989, Gardner's 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. His "Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream" won an Aurora and was nominated for both the Nebula and Hugo Awards.
Science fiction publications
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Lara Croft, Tomb Raider series
- No. 3 Lara Croft and the Man of Bronze
League of Peoples universe
- Commitment Hour (1998)
- Trapped (2002)
- Festina Ramos series:
- Expendable (1997)
- Vigilant (1999)
- Hunted (2000)
- Ascending (2001)
- Radiant (2004)
Short story collections
- Gravity Wells (2005)
- Organisms (2018)
The Dark vs. Spark
- All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault (2017)
- They Promised Me the Gun Wasn't Loaded (2018)
Anthology
- Tesseracts Twenty: Compostela with Spider Robinson (2017)
See also
References
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