James Stoddard is an American

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. He lives in

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, United States, 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'' is 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. Science fiction stories had made regular appearances ...

'' in 1985. Stoddard won the 1999

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 ...

for his novel ''The High House''. The book was also nominated for the 1999 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, placed in the top ten of the Locus Best First Novels of 1999, and was nominated for the Crawford Award by the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts. In 2018 he was one of five judges of the prestigious Philip K. Dick awards.

Novels

#''The High House'' (1998) (Compton Crook Award winner) #''The False House'' (2000) #''The Night Land, A Story Retold'' (2011) #''Evenmere'' (2015) (Book 3 in the award-winning Evenmere series) #''The Back of the Beyond'' (2020) (Book 1 of The Animonean Chronicles) #''Liberty Bell and the Last American'' (2021)

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 Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher a ...

'') #"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'') #"The Coasts of Hope" (Issue 324 2017 ''Galaktika'' (Hungarian Magazine)) #"Day of the Shark" (Issue #2 2018 ''Tales from the Magician's Skull'') #"Cage of Honor" (Issue #4 2020 ''Tales from the Magician's Skull'')

Music

#''Evenmere, A Song Cycle Based on the Novel, The High House'' (2021)

References

External links

James Stoddard's website
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