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James Alan Gardner

Canada (b.1955)

James Alan Gardner is a 1989 graduate of the Clarion West Science Fiction Writers Workshop, and has had several science fiction stories and novellas appear in publications such as Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Amazing Stories, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. He is the author of six previous novels: Expendable, Commitment Hour, Vigilant, Hunted, Ascending, and Trapped. He was the grand prize winner of the 1989 Writers of the Future contest, has won the Aurora Award, and has been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He lives in Canada.

Awards: Sturgeon (2009) see all

Genres: Science Fiction, Thriller

Series

League of Peoples
   1. Expendable (1997)
   2. Commitment Hour (1998)
   3. Vigilant (1999)
   4. Hunted (2000)
   5. Ascending (2001)
   6. Trapped (2002)
   7. Radiant (2004)

All Those Explosions
1. All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault (2017)
2. They Promised Me The Gun Wasn't Loaded (2018)

Collections

Gravity Wells (2005)
Stranded (2012) (with Anne Bishop and Anthony Francis)

Series contributed to

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
3. The Man of Bronze (2004)

Tor.Com Original
A Clean Sweep With All the Trimmings (2011)

Tesseracts
20. Tesseracts Twenty (2017) (with Spider Robinson)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by James Alan Gardner

Game On! (2023)
edited by
Stephen Kotowych and Tony Pi

Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman

Shapers of Worlds Volume II (2021)
(Shapers of Worlds, book 2)
edited by
Edward Willett

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Awards

2009 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award : The Ray-Gun: A Love Story

Award nominations

	2019 Aurora Award for Best Novel (nominee) : They Promised Me The Gun Wasn't Loaded
	2018 Aurora Award for Best Novel (nominee) : All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault
	2009 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Ray-Gun: A Love Story
	2009 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Ray-Gun: A Love Story
	2005 Aurora Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Radiant
	2002 Aurora Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Ascending
	2001 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Hunted
	2001 Aurora Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Hunted
	1998 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Expendable

James Alan Gardner recommends

The Downloaded (2024)
Robert J Sawyer
"In The Downloaded, Robert J. Sawyer proves he's not just a master of using science fiction to address social issues but also a master of devious plot twists and diverse character voices."

Bane of All Things (2021)
(Silence of Worlds, book 1)
Leo Valiquette
"A dark and engrossing epic fantasy that starts off small but just keeps building. I'm really looking forward to what comes next!"

Automatic Reload (2020)
Ferrett Steinmetz
"Frederick Pohl said good science fiction shouldn’t just predict the automobile, but also the traffic jam. Automatic Reload does that for body-modification, AI, and computer-aided combat. We get the traffic jam, plus road rage, hyper-surveillance, and hails of bullets...but we also get the fragile people trying to survive it all. I hope it isn’t prophetic, but I’m afraid it might be."

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