Career
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. 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 Uniplex Information and Computing System is used as a textbook in some Canadian universities. He lives in Waterloo, Ontario.
Commitment Hour (1998)
Trapped (2002)
Festina Ramos series:
Expendable (1997)
Vigilant (1999)
Hunted (2000)
Ascending (2001)
Radiant (2004)
Short story collections
Gravity Wells (2005)
Non-fiction
Learning Uniplex Information and Computing System (1994)
From C to C (1995).