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James Alan Gardner

Gardner, James Alan

January 10, 1955 (age 71)

Birth place: Simcoe, Ontario, Canada

50 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
1990 21 Short Fiction Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large On Spec, Spring 1990
February 1991 99 Short Fiction Reaper The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1991
July 1991 27 Short Fiction Shadow Album Amazing Stories, July 1991
December 1991 31 Short Fiction Hardware Scenario G-49 Amazing Stories, December 1991
April 1992 71 Short Fiction The Young Person's Guide to the Organism Amazing Stories, April 1992
October 1992 24 Short Fiction Kent State Descending the Gravity Well Amazing Stories, October 1992
1995 117 Short Fiction The Last Day of the War, with Parrots Amazing Stories, Winter 1995
1997 51 Review Expendable TransVersions, #7
February 1997 76 Short Fiction Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997
June 1997 29 Review Expendable Locus, #437 June 1997
September 1997 Review Expendable Science Fiction Weekly, 22 Sep 1997
November 1997 Review Expendable Vector 196
1998 Review Expendable Nova Express, Fall-Winter 1998
1998 22 Short Fiction Sense of Wonder Amazing Stories, Summer 1998
February 1998 23 Review Commitment Hour Locus, #445 February 1998
February 1998 17 Review Expendable The New York Review of Science Fiction, February 1998
March 1998 Review Commitment Hour Science Fiction Weekly, 23 Mar 1998
March 1998 Review Commitment Hour SF Site, Mid-March 1998
July 1998 Review Commitment Hour Vector 200
July 1998 47 Interview James Alan Gardner Explains Himself to the World at Large Challenging Destiny, July 1998
December 1998 51 Review Commitment Hour The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1998
January 1999 25 Review Vigilant Locus, #456 January 1999
March 1999 Review Vigilant Science Fiction Weekly, 1 Mar 1999
April 1999 18 Review Commitment Hour The New York Review of Science Fiction, April 1999
April 1999 31 Review Vigilant Locus, #459 April 1999
July 1999 26 Review Vigilant Vector 206
May 2000 29 Review Hunted Locus, #472 May 2000
August 2000 58 Review Hunted Interzone, August 2000
October 2000 27 Review Hunted Locus, #477 October 2000
November 2000 143 Short Fiction Ars Longa, Vita Brevis Nature, November 9, 2000
January 2002 Interview Interview: James Alan Gardner Strange Horizons, 7 January 2002
February 2002 37 Review Ascending Locus, #493 February 2002
February 2002 33 Review Ascending Locus, #493 February 2002
August 2002 37 Review Trapped Locus, #499 August 2002
August 2002 35 Review Trapped Locus, #499 August 2002
December 2002 85 Review Hunted Talebones #25, Fall 2002
February 2003 64 Review Trapped 3SF, #3, February 2003
July 2004 17 Interview Interview: James Alan Gardner Deep Magic, #26, July 2004
August 2004 27 Review Radiant Locus, #523 August 2004
November 2005 63 Review Gravity Wells Interzone, November-December 2005
February 2008 32 Short Fiction The Ray-Gun: A Love Story Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2008
June 2009 Review The Ray-Gun: A Love Story StarShipSofa, No 87
September 2011 Short Fiction All the Cool Monsters at Once The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, Episode 111
September 2011 Interview Author Spotlight: James Alan Gardner Fantasy Magazine, September 2011
September 2011 Short Fiction Three Damnations: A Fugue Fantasy Magazine, September 2011
December 2011 Short Fiction A Clean Sweep with All the Trimmings Tor.com, December 14, 2011
2013 Short Fiction The Tempting: A Love Story Electric Velocipede, Spring 2013
January 2013 40 Review Stranded Locus, #624 January 2013
August 2016 42 Short Fiction The Mutants Men Don't See Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2016
March 2018 64 Review All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault Galaxy's Edge, Issue 31: March 2018

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
1991 Prix Aurora Awards Best Short-Form Work in English / Meilleure nouvelle en anglais Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large Winner
1992 Prix Aurora Awards Best Short-Form Work in English / Meilleure nouvelle en anglais Reaper Nominee
1994 Nebula Award Novella The Young Person's Guide to the Organism Nominee
1998 Asimov's Readers' Poll Best Novelette Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream Runner-up
1998 Hugo Award Best Novelette Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream Runner-up
1998 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF Commitment Hour Nominee
1998 Locus Poll Award Best First Novel Expendable Runner-up
1998 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream Nominee
1998 Nebula Award Novel Expendable Nominee
1998 Nebula Award Novelette Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream Nominee
1998 Prix Aurora Awards Best Short-Form Work in English / Meilleure nouvelle en anglais Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream Winner
1999 Nebula Award Novel Commitment Hour Nominee
2000 Nebula Award Novel Vigilant Nominee
2001 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel Hunted Nominee
2001 Prix Aurora Awards Best Long-Form Work in English / Meilleur livre en anglais Hunted Finalist
2002 Nebula Award Novel Hunted Nominee
2002 Prix Aurora Awards Best Long-Form Work in English / Meilleur livre en anglais Ascending Nominee
2003 Prix Aurora Awards Best Short-Form Work in English / Meilleure nouvelle en anglais Rain, Ice, Steam Nominee
2005 Prix Aurora Awards Best Long-Form Work in English / Meilleur livre en anglais Radiant Nominee
2006 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic Sunburst award for a Canadian novel in previous year. Gravity Wells: Speculative Fiction Stories Nominee
2007 Prix Aurora Awards Best Short-Form Work in English / Meilleure nouvelle en anglais All the Cool Monsters at Once Nominee
2009 Asimov's Readers' Poll Best Novelette The Ray-Gun: A Love Story Winner
2009 Hugo Award Best Novelette The Ray-Gun: A Love Story Finalist
2009 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette The Ray-Gun: A Love Story Nominee
2009 Nebula Award Novelette The Ray-Gun: A Love Story Nominee
2009 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction The Ray-Gun: A Love Story Winner
2012 Locus Online 21st Century Novelette The Ray-Gun: A Love Story Nominee
2017 Asimov's Readers' Poll Best Short Story The Mutants Men Don't See Winner
2017 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story The Mutants Men Don't See Nominee
2017 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic Short Story The Dog and the Sleepwalker Nominee
2018 Prix Aurora Awards Best Novel – English All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault Nominee
2018 Prix Aurora Awards Best Related Work – English Tesseracts Twenty: Compostela Nominee
2019 Prix Aurora Awards Best Novel – English They Promised Me the Gun Wasn't Loaded Nominee

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