Bradley Denton
Bradley Clayton Denton is an American science fiction author. He has also written other types of fiction, such as the black comedy of his novel Blackburn, about a sympathetic serial killer.
He was born in Towanda, Kansas, and attended the University of Kansas at Lawrence and graduated with degrees in astronomy and English. His first published work was the short story "The Music of the Spheres", published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in March 1984. His collection The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist won the 1995 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.
He and his wife Barbara moved from Kansas to Austin, Texas in 1988.
Books
- Sergeant Chip & Other Novellas
- Laughin' Boy
- One Day Closer to Death: Eight Stabs at Immortality ; all but one of the stories in here appeared in either The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians or A Conflagration Artist
- Lunatics
- Blackburn
- The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians
- A Conflagration Artist
- Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede
- ''Wrack & Roll''
Selected short stories
- "Blood Moccasins"
- “The Adakian Eagle”
- "Blackburn and the Blade"
- "Sergeant Chip"
- "Timmy and Tommy's Thanksgiving Secret"
- "Bloody Bunnies"
- "We Love Lydia Love"
- "The Territory"
- "The Sin-Eater of the Kaw"
- "The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians"
- "In the Fullness of Time"
- "The Summer We Saw Diana"
- "Top of the Charts"
- "The Music of the Spheres"