James Alan Gardner is a 1989 graduate of the Clarion West Science Fiction Writers Workshop, and has had several science fiction stories and novellas appear in publications such as "Isaac Asimov s Science Fiction Magazine", "Amazing Stories", and "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction". He is the author of seven previous novels: "Expendable", "Commitment Hour", "Vigilant", "Hunted", "Ascending", "Trapped", and "Radiant". He was the grand prize winner of the 1989 Writers of the Future contest, has won the Aurora Award, and has been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He lives in Cana...