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James Morrow

(James Kenneth Morrow)

(b.1947)

James Morrow is a fiction author. A self-described "scientific humanist", his work satirises organized religion and elements of humanism and atheism.He lives in State College, Pennsylvania with his wife, Kathryn Smith Morrow, his son, Christopher, and their dogs. His cousin is the journalist Lance Morrow.

Awards: Sturgeon (2010), WFA (1995), Nebula (1993) see all

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy

Series

Godhead
   1. Towing Jehovah (1993)
   2. Blameless in Abaddon (1996)
   3. The Eternal Footman (1999)

Novels

   The Wine of Violence (1981)
   The Continent of Lies (1984)
   This Is the Way the World Ends (1986)
   Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
   The Last Witchfinder (2006)
   The Philosopher's Apprentice (2008)
   Shambling Towards Hiroshima (2009)
   The Madonna and the Starship (2014)
   Galapagos Regained (2015)
   The Asylum of Dr. Caligari (2017)
   Behold the Ape (2023)

Collections

   Swatting at the Cosmos (1990)
   Bible Stories for Adults (1996)
   The Cat's Pajamas (2004)
   Reality by Other Means (2012)
   And the Last Trump Shall Sound (2020) (with Cat Rambo and Harry Turtledove)

Novellas and Short Stories

   City of Truth (1991)
   The Second Coming of Charles Darwin (2005)
   Bigfoot and the Bodhisattva (2018)

Anthologies edited

The SFWA European Hall of Fame (2007) (with Kathryn Morrow)

Series contributed to

Nebula Award Stories
   26. Nebula Awards 26 (1992)
   27. Nebula Awards 27 (1993)
   28. Nebula Awards 28 (1994)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by James Morrow

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

Shapers of Worlds Volume III (2022)
(Shapers of Worlds, book 3)
edited by
Edward Willett

Welcome to Dystopia (2018)
edited by
Gordon Van Gelder

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Awards

	2010 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award : Shambling Towards Hiroshima
	1995 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel : Towing Jehovah
	1993 Nebula Award for Best Novella : City of Truth [short story]
	1991 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel : Only Begotten Daughter
	1989 Nebula Award for Best Short Story : Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge

Award nominations

	2018 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Asylum of Dr. Caligari
	2016 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : Galapagos Regained
	2015 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Madonna and the Starship
	2010 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Shambling Towards Hiroshima
	2010 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Shambling Towards Hiroshima
	2010 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Shambling Towards Hiroshima
	2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : The Philosopher's Apprentice
	2007 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Last Witchfinder
	2007 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : The Last Witchfinder
	2006 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Last Witchfinder
	2005 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Cat's Pajamas: And Other Stories
	2002 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : The Cat's Pajamas: And Other Stories
	2002 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Auspicious Eggs
	2000 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Eternal Footman
	1997 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Bible Stories for Adults
	1997 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Blameless in Abaddon
	1997 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Bible Stories for Adults
	1995 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Towing Jehovah
	1995 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Towing Jehovah
	1995 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee) : Towing Jehovah
	1994 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Towing Jehovah
	1992 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : City of Truth
	1991 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (nominee) : Only Begotten Daughter
	1991 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Only Begotten Daughter
	1991 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : Only Begotten Daughter
	1990 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Only Begotten Daughter
	1987 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : This Is the Way the World Ends
	1987 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : This Is the Way the World Ends
	1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : This Is the Way the World Ends

James Morrow recommends

The Circumference of the World (2023)
Lavie Tidhar
"Ingeniously constructed and stylistically protean, this seven-course banquet of a novel glistens with the Golden Age of science fiction, even as it nourishes our neurons with a marvelous thought experiment."

Three Marys (2003)
Paul Park
"To the short list of successful New Testament extrapolations--a literature that includes Alain Absire's Lazarus, Jose Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, and Nikos Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ--I would now add Three Marys."

My Father's Ghost (2002)
Suzy McKee Charnas
"...his daughter conveys each lesson with an unflinching eye, a knowing voice, and a forgiving heart."

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