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American science fiction author
Bradley Clayton Denton (born 1958) is an 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 was born in
Towanda, Kansas , and attended the
University of Kansas at
Lawrence and graduated with degrees in
astronomy (B.A.) and English (M.A.). His first published work was the short story "The Music of the Spheres", published in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in March 1984. His collection The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist won the 1995
World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.
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He and his wife Barbara moved from Kansas to
Austin, Texas in 1988.
Books
Sergeant Chip & Other Novellas (collection, 2014)
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
John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel )
Selected short stories
"Blood Moccasins" (2013,
Impossible Monsters , edited by
Kasey Lansdale ,
Subterranean Press )
“The Adakian Eagle” (2011,
Down These Strange Streets , edited by
George R. R. Martin and
Gardner Dozois ,
Edgar Award nominee)
"Blackburn and the Blade" (2006,
Joe R. Lansdale 's Lords of the Razor , edited by Bill Sheehan and William Schafer, Subterranean Press; 2007
International Horror Guild Award nominee)
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"
Sergeant Chip " (September 2004,
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , 2005
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winner)
"Timmy and Tommy's Thanksgiving Secret" (2003, in the collection
Witpunk )
"Bloody Bunnies" (April 2000, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction )
"We Love Lydia Love" (November 1994, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction )
"The Territory" (July 1992 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , a 1993 nominee for both the
Hugo Award for Best Novella and
Nebula Award for Best Novella )
"The Sin-Eater of the Kaw" (June 1989, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction )
"The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians" (June 1988, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction )
"In the Fullness of Time" (May 1986, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction )
"The Summer We Saw Diana" (August 1985, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction )
"Top of the Charts" (March 1985, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction )
"The Music of the Spheres" (March 1984, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction )
References
External links
International National People