David Zindell (born November 28, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy epics writer.
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Born | Toledo, Ohio, U.S. | November 28, 1952
Occupation | Fiction writer |
Nationality | American |
Education | University of Colorado Boulder (BA) |
Genre | Speculative fiction |
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Zindell's first published story was "The Dreamer's Sleep" in Fantasy Book in 1984. His novelette Shanidar, which shared a background with his first novel Neverness, won the Writers of the Future contest in 1985. He followed Neverness with a sequel trilogy called A Requiem for Homo Sapiens.
Zindell's fantasy series The Ea Cycle has as a theme the evolution of consciousness, through the method of fantasy. The plot concerns a prince named Valashu Elahad searching for a relic called the Lightstone to stop the immortal Morjin, Lord of Lies, who seeks to create a world filled with madness.
In 2015 he published Splendor, a nonfiction book, and in 2017 he published The Idiot Gods, a novel told from the point of view of intelligent killer whales.
John Clute wrote that Zindell was a "romantic, ambitious, and skilled" writer.[1] Zindell has described his style as an attempt to communicate the connectedness of things, the connection between mysticism and evolution, and the possibilities of life,[2] and his fiction as an attempt to heal false dichotomies such as materialism and spirituality.[3]
Zindell was born in Toledo, Ohio, and resides today in Boulder, Colorado, where he works as a test coach;[4] he received a BA in mathematics and minored in anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.[5]