Donald MacDonald Kingsbury (born 12 February 1929, in

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

) is an American–Canadian science fiction author. Kingsbury taught mathematics at

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, Montreal, from 1956 until his retirement in 1986.

Bibliography

Books

* '' Courtship Rite''. New York : Simon and Schuster, July 1982. . (Nominated for Hugo for Best Novel in 1983) (

Compton Crook Award The Compton Crook Award is presented to the best English language first novel of the year in the field of science fiction, fantasy, or horror by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society at their annual science fiction convention, Baltic ...

winner) ( Prometheus Award Hall of Fame 2016 winner) Published in UK as ''Geta''. * ''

The Moon Goddess and the Son ''The Moon Goddess and the Son'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Donald Kingsbury, published by Baen in 1986. The novel was an expanded version of a novella published in the December 1979 issue of ''Analog'' magazine, which was ...

''. New York : Baen Books, December 1986. . (Short version nominated for

Hugo Award for Best Novella The Hugo Award for Best Novella is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The novella award is available for works of fiction of between ...

in 1980) * '' Psychohistorical Crisis''. New York : Tor Books, December 2001. . (Winner, 2002

Prometheus Award The Prometheus Award is an award for libertarian science fiction novels given annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society. American author and activist L. Neil Smith established the award in 1979, but it was not awarded regularly until the newl ...

) * ''The Finger Pointing Solward'' has been awaited ever since the publication of '' Courtship Rite''. Kingsbury has never finished the story, noting as far back as September 1982 that he was still "polishing" it (see interview with

Robert J. Sawyer Robert James Sawyer (born April 29, 1960) is a Canadian science fiction writer. He has had 24 novels published and his short fiction has appeared in ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'', ''Amazing Stories'', '' On Spec'', ''Nature'', and numerou ...

) and as recently as his self-supplied

Readercon Readercon is an annual science fiction convention, held every July in the Boston, Massachusetts area, in Burlington, Massachusetts. It was founded by Bob Colby and Eric Van in 1987 with the goal of focusing almost exclusively on science fiction/ ...

biography in July 2006. Artist

Donato Giancola Donato Giancola is an American artist specializing in narrative realism with science fiction and fantasy content. Biography Donato Giancola was born and raised in Colchester, near Burlington, in the state of Vermont. He currently resides in Bro ...

placed a copy of the intended cover on his gallery page: this cover was used in 2016 for the Bradley P. Beaulieu collection ''In the Stars I'll Find You''. In 1994, an excerpt was published as "The Cauldron".

Short fiction

* "The Ghost Town", ''Astounding Science Fiction'', June 1952. * "Shipwright", ''Analog'', April 1978. * "To Bring in the Steel", ''Analog'', July 1978. * "The Moon Goddess and the Son", ''Analog'', December 1979. * "The Survivor", '' Man-Kzin Wars IV'', September 1991. * "The Heroic Myth of Lieutenant Nora Argamentine", '' Man-Kzin Wars VI'', July 1994. * "The Cauldron", ''Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction'', September 1994. * "Historical Crisis", ''Far Futures'', December 1995.

References

External links

Donald Kingsbury
* 1929 births Living people Canadian science fiction writers Writers from San Francisco Canadian mathematicians Kings American expatriate academics American expatriates in Canada Canadian male novelists {{Canada-writer-stub