James Nicoll

James Nicoll

James Davis Nicoll (born March 18, 1961) of Kitchener, Ontario, is a former role-playing game store owner, a freelance game and speculative fiction reviewer and also works as a first reader for the Science Fiction Book Club. As a Usenet personality, Nicoll is known for writing a widely quoted epigram on the English language, as well as for his accounts of suffering a high number of accidents, which he has narrated over the years in Usenet groups like rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom.

Read more about James Nicoll:  Influence On SF Genre, "The Purity of The English Language", 'Nicoll Events', "Brain Eater", Nicoll-Dyson Laser, Awards

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