David Zindell

David Zindell (born November 28, 1952) is an American writer known for science fiction and fantasy epics. He was born in Toledo, Ohio, and resides today in Boulder, Colorado, where he works as a test coach;[1] he received a BA degree in mathematics and minored in anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.[2][3] 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.[4] 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.",[4] 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."[5]

David Zindell
Born (1952-11-28) November 28, 1952
Toledo, Ohio, U.S.
OccupationFiction writer
NationalityAmerican
GenreSpeculative fiction
Website
davidzindell.com

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'."[4] His fantasy series, The Ea Cycle has as a theme the evolution of consciousness, through the MO of sword-and-sorcery.

Publications

Neverness

Ea Cycle
  • The Lightstone (London: Harper Voyager, August 2001); also published as two volumes, The Ninth Kingdom and The Silver Sword (Voyager, 2002)
  • The Lightstone, Revised (Tor Books, June 2006) – first American ed. of volume one
  • The Silver Sword (Tor, 2007) – American sequel
  • The Lord of Lies (Voyager, 2003); US ed., Tor, 2008
  • Black Jade (Voyager, 2005); not released in U.S.
  • The Diamond Warriors (Voyager, 2007); not released in U.S.

Other novels
  • The Idiot Gods (Harper Voyager, July 2017)

Short stories
  • The Dreamer's Sleep, Fantasy Book, December 1984
  • Caverns, Interzone (UK), Winter 1985/86
  • When the Rose Is Dead, Full Spectrum 3, June 1991

Essays
  • Read This (1994)
  • Splendor (Bhodi Books, 2015)
gollark: *Space* letters.
gollark: Why does that URL say *darkness*?
gollark: I don't think "obliterate entire polity" is a very good idea generally.
gollark: And/or just fiddling with the universe at a lower level.
gollark: I've wanted to play D&D for ages but never actually got round to doing anything about it…

References
  1. http://www.davidzindell.com/ Retrieved 2017-06-17
  2. Charles N. Brown. "David Zindell: Back to Roots" (excerpt), Locus 44:6, No. 473 (June 2000). Retrieved 2000-09-07.
  3. Seekers of the Ineffable Flame - Zindell biography
  4. Clute, John: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, page 1368. Orbit, 1993
  5. David Zindell
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