James Alan Gardner

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January 10, 1955 in Canada

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science, Short Stories

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Raised in Simcoe and Bradford, Ontario, James Alan Gardner earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Applied Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.

A graduate of the Clarion West Fiction Writers Workshop, Gardner has published science fiction short stories in a range of periodicals, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Amazing Stories. In 1989, his short story "Children of the Creche" was awarded the Grand Prize in the Writers of the Future contest. Two years later his story "Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large" won an Aurora Award; another story, "Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream," won an Aurora and was nominated for both the Nebula and Hugo Awards.

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Average rating: 3.85 · 2,249 ratings · 204 reviews · 30 distinct works

	Expendable 3.88 avg rating — 476 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Vigilant 3.96 avg rating — 224 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Hunted (Expendables #3) 3.91 avg rating — 197 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Ascending (Expendables, # 4) 3.94 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Radiant (Expendables #5) 4.08 avg rating — 163 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Trapped 3.80 avg rating — 154 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Commitment Hour 3.72 avg rating — 165 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Gravity Wells: Speculative Fiction Stories 4.05 avg rating — 43 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Man of Bronze 3.59 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	A Clean Sweep With All the Trimmings by James Alan Gardner, Lars Leetaru (Illustrator) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:

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League of Peoples Universe (5 books)
by James Alan Gardner

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“Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.”
― James Alan Gardner, Trapped

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“Don't be a little paranoid; worry about everything, or let it all go.”
― James Alan Gardner, Trapped

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“Sometimes all the procedures in the world can't protect you . . . but that's no reason to walk up to something that looks like a lion and kick it in the ass.”
― James Alan Gardner, Expendable

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