David Zindell
{{short description|American writer (born 1952)}}
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| birth_place = Toledo, Ohio, U.S.
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| education = University of Colorado Boulder (BA)
| occupation = Fiction writer
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| genre = Speculative fiction
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David Zindell (born November 28, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy epics writer.
Writing career
Zindell's first published story was "The Dreamer's Sleep" in Fantasy Book in 1984. His novelette Shanidar, which shared a background with his first novel Neverness, won the Writers of the Future contest in 1985. He followed Neverness with a sequel trilogy called A Requiem for Homo Sapiens.
Zindell's fantasy series The Ea Cycle has as a theme the evolution of consciousness, through the method of fantasy. The plot concerns a prince named Valashu Elahad searching for a relic called the Lightstone to stop the immortal Morjin, Lord of Lies, who seeks to create a world filled with madness.
In 2015 he published Splendor, a nonfiction book, and in 2017 he published The Idiot Gods, a novel told from the point of view of sapient killer whales.
Style and themes
John Clute wrote that Zindell was a "romantic, ambitious, and skilled" writer.Clute, John: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, page 1368. Orbit, 1993 Zindell has described his style as an attempt to communicate the connectedness of things, the connection between mysticism and evolution, and the possibilities of life,{{cite web |title=Storms of Numbers, Chalices of Light: an interview with David Zindell |url=http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intdz.htm |website=infinityplus.co.uk |access-date=17 November 2021}} and his fiction as an attempt to heal false dichotomies such as materialism and spirituality.{{cite web |title=David Zindell: Back to Roots |url=http://www.locusmag.com/2000/Issues/06/Zindell.html |website=Locus.com |access-date=17 November 2021}}
Personal life
Zindell was born in Toledo, Ohio, and resides today in Boulder, Colorado, where he works as a test coach;{{cite web |url=https://davidzindellcoaching.com/ |title=Colorado Test Prep for SAT, ACT, GRE, and GMAT. |website=davidzindellcoaching.com |access-date=2017-06-17}}{{title missing|date=May 2022}} he received a BA in mathematics and minored in anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.Charles N. Brown. [http://www.locusmag.com/2000/Issues/06/Zindell.html "David Zindell: Back to Roots"] (excerpt), Locus 44:6, No. 473 (June 2000). Retrieved 2000-09-07.
Publications
=Neverness universe=
- "Shanidar", Writers of the Future (March 1985); [http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/shanidar.htm online reprint] at infinity plus
- Neverness (New York: D. I. Fine, 1988)
- A Requiem for Homo Sapiens (trilogy):
- The Broken God (HarperCollins, 1992); US ed., Bantam, 1994
- The Wild (Harper Voyager, 1995); US ed., Bantam, 1996
- War in Heaven (Voyager, Bantam, 1998)
- The Remembrancer's Tale (Harper Voyager, 2023)
=Ea Cycle=
- The Lightstone (London: Harper Voyager, August 2001), (Tor Books, June 2006), also published as two volumes, The Ninth Kingdom (June 2006) and The Silver Sword (Voyager, 2002, Tor, 2887) and again together as The Lightstone: The Complete Novel (2022)
- Lord of Lies (Voyager, 2003); US ed., Tor, 2008
- Black Jade (Voyager, 2005); released in U.S. only as e-book
- The Diamond Warriors (Voyager, 2007); released in U.S. only as e-book
=Stand-alone novels=
- The Orca's Song (originally published as The Idiot Gods, Harper Voyager, July 2017)
=Short fiction=
==Collection==
- Shanidar and Other Stories
==Individual short fiction==
- "The Dreamer's Sleep", Fantasy Book, December 1984
- "Caverns", Interzone (UK), Winter 1985/86
- "When the Rose Is Dead", Full Spectrum 3, June 1991
=Nonfiction=
- Read This (1994)
- Splendor (Bhodi Books, 2015)
References
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External links
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- {{official website }}
- [http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/399921.David_Zindell David Zindell] on Goodreads
- [http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intdz.htm Storm of Numbers, Chalice of Light], an interview on Infinity Plus
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