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Raised in Simcoe and Bradford, Ontario , he earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Applied Mathematics from the University Of Waterloo . Gardner has published science fiction short stories in a range of periodicals, including '' The Magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction '' and '' Amazing Stories ''. In 1989, his short story "Children of the Creche" was awarded the Grand Prize in the Writers of the Future contest. Two years later his story "Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large" won an Aurora Award ; another story, "Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream," won an Aurora and was nominated for both the Nebula and Hugo Awards . He has written a number of novels in a " League Of Peoples " universe in which murderers are defined as "dangerous non-sentients" and are killed if they try to leave their solar system by aliens who are so advanced that they think of humans like humans think of bacteria. This precludes the possibility of interstellar wars. He has also explored themes of gender in his novels, including '' Commitment Hour '' in which people change sex every year, and '' Vigilant '' in which group marriages are traditional. Gardner is also an educator and technical writer. His book ''Learning UNIX'' is used as a textbook in some Canadian universities. He lives in Waterloo , Ontario. BIBLIOGRAPHY Novels League Of Peoples :
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