David Zindell

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David Zindell is an American author known for science fiction and fantasy epics. He was born on November 28, 1952 in Toledo, Ohio, and resides today in Boulder, Colorado; he has a degree in mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder[1]. His first published story was "The Dreamer's Sleep" in Fantasy Book in 1984; his novelette 'Shanidar' , which formed the core of his first novel "Neverness", won the Writers of the Future Contest in 1985.[2] He was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1986. John Clute writes that the author of "Neverness" is "romantic, ambitious, and skilled."[3], and Gene Wolfe, who is connected with Zindell in a way Wolfe himself was with Jack Vance, described Zindell as "...one of the finest talents to appear since Kim Stanley Robinson and William Gibson-perhaps the finest."[4].

In the series started by "Neverness", David Zindell probes the nature of future humanity in "an extremely ambitious tale...The young protagonist has all the necessary complexity and drivenness to occupy centre-stage 'cosmogony opera'."[5] His fantasy series, The Ea Cycle has as a theme the evolution of consciousnes, through the MO of sword-and-sorcery.

Contents

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] A Requiem for Homo Sapiens trilogy

[edit] The Ea Cycle

  • The Lightstone (2001) - Also published as two separate books:
    • The Lightstone : The Ninth Kingdom (2002) GREAT BOOK
    • The Lightstone : The Silver Sword (2002)
  • The Lord of Lies (2003)
  • Black Jade (2005)
  • The Diamond Warriors (2007)

[edit] Other novels

[edit] Short Stories

  • The Dreamer's Sleep (1984)
  • Caverns (1985)
  • Shanidar (1985)
  • When the Rose Is Dead (1991)

[edit] Essays

  • Read This (1994)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Seekers of the Ineffable Flame - Zindell biography
  2. ^ Clute, John:"The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", page 1368. Orbit, 1993
  3. ^ ibid
  4. ^ David Zindell
  5. ^ Clute, John:"The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", page 1368. Orbit, 1993

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