Bradley Denton
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Bradley Clayton Denton (born 1958, Towanda, Kansas) is an award-winning American science fiction author. He has also written other types of fiction, such as the black comedy of his novel Blackburn, about a sympathetic serial killer.
He attended the University of Kansas at Lawrence and graduated with degrees in astronomy (B.A.) and English (Master's). His first published work was the short story "The Music of the Spheres," published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in March of 1984.
He moved from Kansas to Austin, Texas with his wife Barbara in 1988.
[edit] Books
- Laughin' Boy (novel, 2005)
- One Day Closer to Death: Eight Stabs at Immortality (collection, 1998); all but one of the stories in here appeared in either The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians or A Conflagration Artist
- Lunatics (novel, 1996)
- Blackburn (novel, 1993, was nominated for the 1993 Bram Stoker Award)
- The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians (collection, 1993, won the 1995 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection)
- A Conflagration Artist (collection, 1993, won the 1995 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection)
- Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (novel, 1991, won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for 1992)
- Wrack & Roll (novel, 1986, a nominee for the Campbell award)
[edit] Short stories
- "Sergeant Chip" (September 2004, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2005 Sturgeon Award Winner)
- "Timmy and Tommy's Thanksgiving Secret" (2003, in the collection Witpunk)
- "Bloody Bunnies" (April 2000, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- "We Love Lydia Love" (November 1994, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- "The Territory" (July 1992 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a 1993 Hugo award and Nebula award nominee for best novella)
- "The Sin-Eater of the Kaw" (June 1989, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- "The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians" (June 1988, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- "In the Fullness of Time" (May 1986, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- "The Summer We Saw Diana" (August 1985, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- "Top of the Charts" (March 1985, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- "The Music of the Spheres" (March 1984, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
