Donald Kingsbury

(February 12, 1929 –)

Donald MacDonald Kingsbury is an American–Canadian SF author who taught mathematics at McGill University, Montreal, from 1956 until his retirement in 1986. His first sf story, "The Ghost Town," appeared in Astounding in June 1952; his subsequent output was highly regarded, but scanty.

Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1980 -- Best Novella Hugo nominee
• 1983 -- Best Novel Hugo nominee, Compton Crook Award for Courtship Rite
• 1984 -- Balticon 18, Contradiction 4
• 1986 -- Balticon 20 special guest
• 1992 -- CAN*CON '92
• 1994 -- CAN*CON '94
• 2002 -- Prometheus Award for Psychohistorical Crisis

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1929—

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