James Nicoll, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

James Nicoll

Canadian fiction reviewer

Date of Birth: 18-Mar-1961

Place of Birth: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Profession: writer, literary critic

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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James Davis Nicoll (born March 18, 1961) of Kitchener, Ontario, is a freelance game and speculative fiction reviewer, former role-playing game store owner, 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.
He is now a blogger on Dreamwidth and Facebook, and an occasional columnist on Tor.com.
In 2014, he started his website, jamesdavisnicoll.com, dedicated to his book reviews of works old and new; and later added Young People Read Old SFF, where his panel of younger readers read pre-1980 science fiction and fantasy, and Nicoll and his collaborators report on the younger readers' reactions.