James Alan Gardner

James Alan Gardner (born January 10, 1955) is a Canadian science fiction author.

Early life and education Born in Simcoe, Ontario, he attended the University of Waterloo, where he published his first story, "The Phantom of the Operator", in 1984.

Awards In 1989, Gardner's short story "The Children of Creche" won 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" also won an Aurora and was nominated for both the Nebula and Hugo Awards. In 2009 his novelette "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and the Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Readers' Award and was nominated for the Nebula Award. In 2022, his "The One with the Interstellar Group Consciousnesses" won Japan's Seiun Award for best translated story of the year (and he had previous Seiun nominations for both "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" and "Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream").

He was inducted into the CSSFA Hall of Fame in 2026.

Science fiction publications Source:

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)