David Zindell

David Zindell (born November 28, 1952) is an American author known for science fiction and fantasy epics. He was born in Toledo, Ohio, and resides today in Boulder, Colorado; he received a BA degree in mathematics and minored in anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.^[1][2] 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.^[3] David Zindell's writing style is at once romantic, heroic, deeply poetic and concerns itself with deep philosophical issues in the human psyche. 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'."^[3] His fantasy series, The Ea Cycle has as a theme the evolution of consciousness, through the MO of sword-and-sorcery.

Bibliography

Neverness novels

• Neverness (1988)

A Requiem for Homo Sapiens trilogy

• The Broken God (1992)
• The Wild (1995)
• War in Heaven (1998)

The Ea Cycle

• The Lightstone (2006) - Also published as two separate books in the U.K.:
  • The Lightstone : The Ninth Kingdom (2001)
  • The Lightstone : The Silver Sword (2002)
• The Silver Sword (2008) - American sequel to American edition of The Lightstone.
• The Lord of Lies (2003) for U.K. edition and (2009) for American edition.
• Black Jade (2005) Not yet released in U.S.
• The Diamond Warriors (2007) Not yet released in U.S.

Short Stories

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

Essays

• Read This (1994)

References

1. ^ Charles N. Brown. "David Zindell: Back to Roots" (excerpt), Locus, v44:6 No.473 June 2000. Retrieved on 2000-09-07.
2. ^ Seekers of the Ineffable Flame - Zindell biography
3. ^ ^{a b c} Clute, John:"The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", page 1368. Orbit, 1993
4. ^ David Zindell

External links

• David Zindell on Wikiquote
• Storm of Numbers, Chalice of Light, an interview on Infinity Plus
• David Zindell at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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Name	Zindell, David
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Short description	American writer
Date of birth	November 28, 1952
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