James Stoddard
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James Stoddard is an American fantasy
author
. He lives in West Texas
, USA where he is also a Music Recording and Engineering Instructor. Stoddard's first published short story, The Perfect Day, was penned under the name James Turpin and appeared in Amazing Stories
in 1985.
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
author
Author
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. He lives in West Texas
West Texas
West Texas is a vernacular term applied to a region in the southwestern quadrant of the United States that primarily encompasses the arid and semi-arid lands in the western portion of the state of Texas....
, USA where he is also a Music Recording and Engineering Instructor. Stoddard's first published short story, The Perfect Day, was penned under the name James Turpin and appeared in Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction...
in 1985.
Novels
- The High House (1998) (Winner Compton Crook AwardCompton Crook AwardThe Compton Crook Award is presented to the best first novel of the year in the field of Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, Inc, at their annual Baltimore-area science fiction convention, Balticon, held on Memorial Day weekend in the...
.) - The False House (2000)
- The Night Land, A Story Retold (2011)
Short Stories, Novellas, Novelettes
- The Perfect Day (1985 as James Turpin in Amazing Stories)
- The Star Watch (January 2002 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- The Battle of York (July 2004 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- The Star to Every Wandering Barque (October/November 2007 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- The First Editions (April 2008 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- Christmas at Hostage Canyon (Jan/Feb 2011 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- The Ifs of Time (March/April 2011 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)