David Zindell (born November 28, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy epics writer.
His novelette Shanidar, which shared a background with his first novel Neverness, won the Writers of the Future contest in 1985.
The plot concerns a prince named Valashu Elahad searching for a relic called the Lightstone to stop the immortal Morjin, Lord of Lies, who seeks to create a world filled with madness.
John Clute wrote that Zindell was a "romantic, ambitious, and skilled" writer.
[3] Zindell was born in Toledo, Ohio, and resides today in Boulder, Colorado, where he works as a test coach;[4] he received a BA in mathematics and minored in anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.