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He is now a <a href="/wiki/Blog" title="Blog">blogger</a> on <a href="/wiki/Dreamwidth" title="Dreamwidth">Dreamwidth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a>, and an occasional columnist on <a href="/wiki/Tor.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Tor.com">Tor.com</a>. In 2014, he started his website, jamesdavisnicoll.com, dedicated to his <a href="/wiki/Book_reviews" class="mw-redirect" title="Book reviews">book reviews</a> of works old and new; and later added <i>Young People Read Old SFF</i>, where his panel of younger readers read pre-1980 science fiction and fantasy, and Nicoll and his collaborators report on the younger readers' reactions. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Nicoll&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nicoll was born March 18, 1961, and grew up in rural <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a>. He wrote on Usenet that "[b]efore it exploded one night, I went to a four grade, two room schoolhouse and we had textbooks from the 1940s." He attended <a href="/wiki/Waterloo-Oxford_District_Secondary_School" title="Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School">Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School</a>, which he described as "a very rural high school, where 'alternative life style' meant 'Not Old Order Mennonite'". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Influence_on_SF_genre">Influence on SF genre</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Nicoll&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Influence on SF genre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In addition to his influence as a <a href="/wiki/Publisher%27s_reader" title="Publisher's reader">first reader</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Science_Fiction_Book_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Science Fiction Book Club">Science Fiction Book Club</a>, a book reviewer for <i><a href="/wiki/Bookspan" title="Bookspan">Bookspan</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Publishers_Weekly" title="Publishers Weekly">Publishers Weekly</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Romantic_Times" title="Romantic Times">Romantic Times</a></i>, and a juror for the <a href="/wiki/James_Tiptree,_Jr._Award" class="mw-redirect" title="James Tiptree, Jr. Award">James Tiptree, Jr. Award</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nicoll often offers ideas and concepts to other writers, primarily through the medium of <a href="/wiki/Usenet" title="Usenet">Usenet</a>. After winning the 2006 <a href="/wiki/Locus_Award" title="Locus Award">Locus Award</a> for his novella <i><a href="/wiki/Missile_Gap" title="Missile Gap">Missile Gap</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Stross" title="Charles Stross">Charles Stross</a> thanked him, writing that Nicoll "came up with the original insane setting<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>—then kindly gave me permission to take his idea and run with it."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id=""The_Purity_of_the_English_Language""><span id=".22The_Purity_of_the_English_Language.22"></span>"The Purity of the English Language"</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Nicoll&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: "The Purity of the English Language""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1990, in the Usenet group rec.arts.sf-lovers, Nicoll wrote the following <a href="/wiki/Epigram" title="Epigram">epigram</a> on the English language: </p> <blockquote><p>The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>(A followup to the original post acknowledged that the spelling of "riffle" was a common<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> misspelling of "rifle".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) </p><p>The epigram has also been quoted, with proper attribution, in books by professor of <a href="/wiki/Rhetoric" title="Rhetoric">rhetoric</a> and <a href="/wiki/Communication_design" title="Communication design">communication design</a> Randy Harris.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Amateur linguists Jeremy Smith,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Richard_Lederer" title="Richard Lederer">Richard Lederer</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Chinese newspaper <a href="/wiki/Ming_Pao" title="Ming Pao">Ming Pao</a><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Anu_Garg" title="Anu Garg">Anu Garg</a><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> have also referenced Nicoll's quote. </p><p>Professional linguists who have referenced the quotation online include Professor of <a href="/wiki/Linguistics" title="Linguistics">Linguistics</a> <a href="/wiki/Mark_Liberman" title="Mark Liberman">Mark Liberman</a> of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a> and <i><a href="/wiki/Language_Log" title="Language Log">Language Log</a></i>;<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Associate Professor of Linguistics Suzanne Kemmer<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of <a href="/wiki/Rice_University" title="Rice University">Rice University</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who also posted her research into the quote at the <i><a href="/wiki/LINGUIST_List" class="mw-redirect" title="LINGUIST List">LINGUIST</a></i> mailing list;<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Second_Language_Acquisition" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Language Acquisition">Second Language Acquisition</a> Ph.D. student Rong Liu.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are also amateur philologists who have used the quote, including journalist <a href="/wiki/Suw_Charman" class="mw-redirect" title="Suw Charman">Suw Charman</a><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and journalist Vale White.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id=""Nicoll_events""><span id=".22Nicoll_events.22"></span>"Nicoll events"</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Nicoll&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: "Nicoll events""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nicoll relates a number of life- and/or limb-threatening accidents that have happened to him, which he has told and retold on various <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_fandom" title="Science fiction fandom">science fiction fandom</a>–related newsgroups. Over the years these stories have also been collected into Cally Soukup's List of Nicoll events.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Inspired by Nicoll's collection of accidents, as well as his tendency to take in any stray cat that comes knocking, <a href="/wiki/Fantasy_author" class="mw-redirect" title="Fantasy author">fantasy author</a> <a href="/wiki/Jo_Walton" title="Jo Walton">Jo Walton</a> wrote him a <a href="/wiki/Poem" class="mw-redirect" title="Poem">poem</a> in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id=""Brain_eater""><span id=".22Brain_eater.22"></span>"Brain eater"</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Nicoll&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: "Brain eater""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A post on soc.history.what-if credits Nicoll with coining the phrase "brain eater"<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which is supposed to "get" certain writers such as <a href="/wiki/Poul_Anderson" title="Poul Anderson">Poul Anderson</a><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/James_P._Hogan_(writer)" title="James P. Hogan (writer)">James P. Hogan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nicoll claims the 'brain eater' affected Hogan, because of Hogan's expressions of belief in <a href="/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky" title="Immanuel Velikovsky">Immanuel Velikovsky</a>'s version of <a href="/wiki/Catastrophism" title="Catastrophism">catastrophism</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and his advocacy of the hypothesis that <a href="/wiki/AIDS" class="mw-redirect" title="AIDS">AIDS</a> is caused by pharmaceutical use rather than <a href="/wiki/HIV" title="HIV">HIV</a> (see <a href="/wiki/AIDS_denialism" class="mw-redirect" title="AIDS denialism">AIDS denialism</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The term has been adopted by other Usenet posters,<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as elsewhere on the Internet<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and use of the term within Usenet has been criticised.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nicoll-Dyson_Laser">Nicoll-Dyson Laser</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Nicoll&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Nicoll-Dyson Laser"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nicoll proposed the Nicoll-Dyson Laser concept where the satellites of a <a href="/wiki/Dyson_swarm" class="mw-redirect" title="Dyson swarm">Dyson swarm</a> act as a <a href="/wiki/Phased_array" title="Phased array">phased array</a> <a href="/wiki/Laser" title="Laser">laser</a> emitter capable of delivering their energy to a planet-sized target at a range of millions of <a href="/wiki/Light_years" class="mw-redirect" title="Light years">light years</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/E._E._Smith" title="E. E. Smith">E. E. Smith</a> first used the general idea of concentrating the sun's energy in a weapon in the <a href="/wiki/Lensman" class="mw-redirect" title="Lensman">Lensman</a> series when the <a href="/wiki/Galactic_Patrol" title="Galactic Patrol">Galactic Patrol</a> developed the <a href="/wiki/Lensman#Weapons" class="mw-redirect" title="Lensman">sunbeam</a> (in <i>Second Stage Lensmen</i>); however, his concept did not extend to the details of the Nicoll-Dyson Laser. The 2012 novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rapture_of_the_Nerds" title="The Rapture of the Nerds">The Rapture of the Nerds</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Cory_Doctorow" title="Cory Doctorow">Cory Doctorow</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Stross" title="Charles Stross">Charles Stross</a> uses the Nicoll-Dyson Laser concept by name as the means by which the Galactic Federation threatens to destroy the Earth. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Science-fictional_Lysenkoism">Science-fictional Lysenkoism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Nicoll&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Science-fictional Lysenkoism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a discussion on rec.arts.sf.written about why Golden Age science fiction so often uses aliens said to derive from short-lived but well-known stars such as <a href="/wiki/Rigel" title="Rigel">Rigel</a> whose lifespan is probably too brief to ever allow the rise of life due to the long-established <a href="/wiki/Mass-luminosity_relationship" class="mw-redirect" title="Mass-luminosity relationship">mass-luminosity relationship</a> for <a href="/wiki/Main-sequence_stars" class="mw-redirect" title="Main-sequence stars">main-sequence stars</a>, Nicoll identified what he termed the "SFnal <a href="/wiki/Lysenkoism" title="Lysenkoism">Lysenkoist</a> Tendency when actual, tested science contradicts some detail in an SF story, attack the science." He expanded on this idea in an article for online science fiction and fantasy magazine <a href="/wiki/Tor.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Tor.com">Tor.com</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Nicoll&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nicoll was a finalist for the 2010, 2011, 2019, 2020, and 2024 <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="Hugo Awards">Hugo Awards</a> for <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Fan_Writer" title="Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer">Best Fan Writer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SFADB_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFADB-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served as a judge for the 2012 <a href="/wiki/James_Tiptree_Jr._Award" class="mw-redirect" title="James Tiptree Jr. Award">James Tiptree Jr. Award</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SFADB_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFADB-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2021 and 2022, he was nominated for the <a href="/wiki/Aurora_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Aurora Award">Aurora Award</a> for Best Fan Writing and Publication, for the series "Young People Read Old SFF" published on his review website.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nicoll has also been a Fan Guest of Honor (GoH) at <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">SF</a> conventions, including <a href="/wiki/ConFusion_(convention)" class="mw-redirect" title="ConFusion (convention)">ConFusion</a> 2013 in Detroit<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Arisia" title="Arisia">Arisia</a> 2014 in Boston.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2020, he was nominated for the <a href="/wiki/Down_Under_Fan_Fund" title="Down Under Fan Fund">Down Under Fan Fund</a>, to visit <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_fandom" title="Science fiction fandom">science fiction fandom</a> in Australasia as a representative of their North American counterparts.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Nicoll&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output 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