In other words, automatic culture clashes, even when both sides say they're trying to get along. In the U.S., there are two basic scenarios for dealing with alien races: science fiction, but it's a very subtle shading. James Alan Gardner: I think there is a difference between Canadian and U.S. Louis Bright-Raven: Is there any significant difference between the American and Canadian SF scenes? We in America rarely hear of what's happening in the Canadian (or other English-speaking) scenes. This interview was conducted over the course of late October/early November 2001 via email. Born and raised in Canada, he now lives in Kitchener, Ontario with his wife Linda Carson and his confused but earnest rabbit, Basil. He's published five novels through Eos his latest, Ascending, was released in November 2001, and is available through the Science Fiction Book Club and your local bookstore. Winner of the Grand Prize for Short Fiction in the 1989 Writers Of The Future contest, Gardner has been a finalist for and has won the Aurora award, the Canadian version of the Hugo, for Best Short Work in English he has also been a finalist for both the Hugo and Nebula for his short fiction. His ever-growing list of published short fiction has appeared in Amazing, Asimov's, Galaxies, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nature, On-Spec, Tesseracts 3-6, and other venues. James Alan Gardner is fast becoming one of science fiction's veteran authors.
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