James D Macdonald

(b.1954)

aka Nicholas Adams, Martin Delrio, Robyn Tallis

James D. Macdonald is an American author and critic who lives in New Hampshire with his wife and frequent collaborator, Dr. Debra Doyle. He works in several genres, concentrating on fantasy, but also writing science fiction, and mystery and media tie-ins.

Knight's Wyrd was awarded the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's literature, 1992, and named to the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age list in 1993. In 1997, he was awarded Best Young-Adult Science Fiction by the Science Fiction Chronicle for Groogleman.

Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Mystery, Children's Fiction

Series

Circle of Magic (with Debra Doyle)
1. School of Wizardry (1990)
2. Tournament and Tower (1990)
3. City by the Sea (1990)
4. The Prince's Players (1990)
5. The Prisoners of Bell Castle (1990)
6. The High King's Daughter (1990)

Tom Swift (Fourth Series) (with Debra Doyle)
5. Monster Machine (1991)
6. Aquatech Warriors (1991)

MageWorlds (with Debra Doyle)
1. The Price of the Stars (1992)
2. Starpilot's Grave (1993)
3. By Honor Betray'd (1994)
4. The Gathering Flame (1995)
5. The Long Hunt (1996)
6. The Stars Asunder (1999)
7. A Working of Stars (2002)

Bad Blood (with Debra Doyle)
1. Bad Blood (1993)
2. Hunter's Moon (1994)
3. Judgement Night (1995)
Bad Blood: A Short Story (2011)
Val Sherwood, Werewolf (omnibus) (2012)

Peter Crossman (with Debra Doyle)
The Confessions of Peter Crossman (2010)
The Devil in the Details (2014)

Orville Nesbit
1. A Tremble in the Air (2011)
2. Ecdysis (2011) (with Debra Doyle)

Novels

Knight's Wyrd (1992) (with Debra Doyle)
Groogleman (1996) (with Debra Doyle)
Prince Valiant (1998) (with Debra Doyle and Hal Foster)
The Apocalypse Door (2002)
Land of Mist and Snow (2006) (with Debra Doyle)
Lincoln's Sword (2010) (with Debra Doyle)

Collections

Two from the Mageworlds (2011) (with Debra Doyle)
The Maker's Shelf (2011) (with Debra Doyle)
Witch Garden and Other Stories (2011) (with Debra Doyle)
Ghosts and Legends (2012) (with Debra Doyle)
Looking For Futures (2012) (with Debra Doyle)
Vampires and Shapeshifters (2012) (with Debra Doyle)

Novellas

Philologos (2011) (with Debra Doyle)
Crossover (2011) (with Debra Doyle)
Jenny Nettles (2011) (with Debra Doyle)
Remailer (2011) (with Debra Doyle)
Holly and Ivy (2011) (with Debra Doyle)
Up the Airy Mountain (2011) (with Debra Doyle)
The Clockwork Trollop (2013) (with Debra Doyle)

Series contributed to

Robert Silverberg's Time Tours (with Debra Doyle)
3. Timecrime Inc (1991)

Daniel M Pinkwater's Melvinge of the Megaverse (with Debra Doyle and Daniel Pinkwater)
2. Night of the Living Rat (1992)

Mortal Kombat (with Debra Doyle)
Mortal Kombat (1995)

Spider-Man (with Debra Doyle)
Global War (1996)
Midnight Justice (1996)

Earth - Final Conflict (with Debra Doyle)
3. Requiem for Boone (2000)

BattleTech : Mechwarrior Dark Age (with Debra Doyle)
4. A Silence in the Heavens (2003)
5. Truth and Shadows (2003)

Anthologies containing stories by James D Macdonald

Witch Fantastic (1995)
The Book of Kings (1995)
Otherwere (1996)
Not of Woman Born (1999)

Short stories

	Witch Garden (1994) (with Debra Doyle)
	Please to See the King (1995) (with Debra Doyle)
	Ecdysis [short story] (1996) (with Debra Doyle)
	Remailer [short story] (1999)

James D Macdonald recommends

The Warslayer (2002)
Rosemary Edghill
"A fast, funny, serious story that is never what it seems."

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