= Bradley_Denton =

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= Bradley_Denton =
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Introduction
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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.

He and his wife Barbara moved from Kansas to Austin, Texas in 1988.

Books
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*'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
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*"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)
*"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')

External links
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*[http://www.bradleydenton.net/ Bradley Denton Website]
*[http://www.williamdgagliani.com/int_brde.html One Day Closer to
Death: A Cheery Chat with Bradley Denton]
*[http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol15/issue6/arts.books.html
Down the Dark Highway: Bradley Denton Talks about Blackburn]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20041012173947/http://www.sflit.com/novaexpress/15/bdi-1.html
Sex, Serial Killers, and Pathetic Old Wanker Music: An Interview With
Bradley Denton]
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*[http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/denton_bradley Bradley Denton
SF Encyclopedia entry]

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