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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. Secret of the Tower (1990)
     aka Tournament and Tower
   3. The Wizard's Statue (1990)
     aka City by the Sea
   4. Danger In The Palace (1990)
     aka The Prince's Players
   5. The Wizard's Castle (1990)
     aka The Prisoners of Bell Castle
   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)
   On Suivi Point (2021)

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

Peter Crossman
   The Apocalypse Door (2002)
   The Confessions of Peter Crossman (2010) (with Debra Doyle)
   The Devil in the Details (2014) (with Debra Doyle)

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)
   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 and Short Stories

   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
3. Timecrime Inc (1991) (with Debra Doyle)

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

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

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

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

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

Tor.Com Original
The Devil in the Details (2014) (with Debra Doyle)

Books containing stories by James D Macdonald

The Four ???? of the Apocalypse (2023)
edited by
Keith R A DeCandido and Wrenn Simms

Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman

Altered States Of The Union (2016)
edited by
Glenn Hauman

More books

James D Macdonald recommends

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

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