Craig Shaw Gardner
1 universe Last reviewed 2026-11-02
Craig Shaw Gardner was born in Rochester, New York, on 2 July 1949. He began publishing genre fiction with the short story "Rocket Roll" in Unearth in Spring 1978. He is almost exclusively associated with fantasy, mainly humorous original novels and media tie-ins. His Ebenezum and Wuntvor books, beginning with A Malady of Magicks in 1986, form a comic fantasy series in two trilogies. He also wrote the Cineverse Cycle, a spoofish trilogy set in a world shaped by Hollywood B-movie clichés, the Back to the Future Part II and Part III novelizations, two Batman novelizations, and tie-in novels for the Spider-Man and Battlestar Galactica universes. He has also published fantasy as Peter Garrison, and his story collections include A Little Purple Book of Peculiar Stories (2004) and A Cold Wind in July (2011).
Universe(s)
- Core Canon books: 6
- Current rank: #1108 in the official ranking
- Weighted average: 3.66
- Award recognitions: None recorded
Books
Aggregate across all universes
- Total Core Canon books across all universes: 6 books
- Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)
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A Malady of Magicks (1986) · Ebenezum Core Canon
A Multitude of Monsters (1986) · Ebenezum Core Canon
A Difficulty with Dwarves (1987) · Ebenezum Core Canon
A Night in the Netherhells (1987) · Ebenezum Core Canon
An Excess of Enchantments (1988) · Ebenezum Core Canon
A Disagreement with Death (1989) · Ebenezum Core Canon