Bradley Denton
American science fiction author
- Science fiction
- black comedy
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.[1]
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)[2]
- "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
Wikiquote has quotations related to Bradley Denton.
- Bradley Denton Website
- One Day Closer to Death: A Cheery Chat with Bradley Denton
- Down the Dark Highway: Bradley Denton Talks about Blackburn
- Sex, Serial Killers, and Pathetic Old Wanker Music: An Interview With Bradley Denton
- Bradley Denton at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Bradley Denton SF Encyclopedia entry
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- Worse Things Waiting by Manly Wade Wellman (1975)
- The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy by Avram Davidson (1976)
- Frights by Kirby McCauley (1977)
- Murgunstrumm and Others by Hugh B. Cave (1978)
- Shadows by Charles L. Grant (1979)
- Amazons! by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (1980)
- Dark Forces by Kirby McCauley (1981)
- The Dark Country by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold (1982)
- Nightmare Seasons by Charles L. Grant (1983)
- High Spirits by Robertson Davies (1984)
- Books of Blood, Vols. I-III by Clive Barker (1985)
- Imaginary Lands by Robin McKinley (1986)
- Tales of the Quintana Roo by James Tiptree Jr. (1987)
- The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard (1988)
- Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison / Storeys from the Old Hotel by Gene Wolfe (1989, tie)
- Richard Matheson: Collected Stories by Richard Matheson (1990)
- The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories by Carol Emshwiller (1991)
- The Ends of the Earth by Lucius Shepard (1992)
- The Sons of Noah & Other Stories by Jack Cady (1993)
- Alone with the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell (1994)
- The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist by Bradley Denton (1995)
- The Grass Princess by Gwyneth Jones (1996)
- The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem (1997)
- The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton (1998)
- Black Glass by Karen Joy Fowler (1999)
- Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint / Reave the Just and Other Tales by Stephen R. Donaldson (2000, tie)
- Beluthahatchie and Other Stories by Andy Duncan (2001)
- Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson (2002)
- The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford (2003)
- Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand (2004)
- Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (2005)
- The Keyhole Opera by Bruce Holland Rogers (2006)
- Map of Dreams by M. Rickert (2007)
- Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman (2008)
- The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford (2009)
- There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya / The Best of Gene Wolfe by Gene Wolfe (2010, tie)
- What I Didn't See and Other Stories by Karen Joy Fowler (2011)
- The Bible Repairman and Other Stories by Tim Powers (2012)
- Where Furnaces Burn by Joel Lane (2013)
- The Ape's Wife and Other Stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan (2014)
- The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings by Angela Slatter / Gifts for the One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall (2015, tie)
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- A Natural History of Hell by Jeffrey Ford (2017)
- The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen (2018)
- The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell (2019)
- Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson (2020)
- Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda (2021)
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