From a Certain Point of View

by Seth Dickinson

  CHRISTIE GOLDEN is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of more than fifty novels and more than a dozen short stories in the fields of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Her media tie-in works include launching the Ravenloft line in 1991 with Vampire of the Mists, more than a dozen Star Trek novels, several movie novelizations, the Warcraft novels Rise of the Horde, Lord of the Clans, Arthas: Rise of the Lich King, and Before the Storm, Assassin’s Creed: Heresy, as well as Star Wars: Dark Disciple, Star Wars Battlefront II: Inferno Squad, and the Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi novels Omen, Allies, and Ascension. In 2017, she was awarded the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers’ Faust Award and named a Grandmaster in recognition of nearly three decades of writing. Currently Golden works for Activision Blizzard in story and franchise development, helping to create everything from comics to short stories to cinematics for Blizzard games, including World of Warcraft.

  HANK GREEN is the New York Times bestselling author of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing and A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor. He’s also the CEO of Complexly, a production company that creates educational content, including Crash Course and SciShow, prompting The Washington Post to name him “one of America’s most popular science teachers.” Complexly’s videos have been viewed more than two billion times on YouTube. Hank and his brother, John, are also raising money to dramatically and systematically improve maternal health care in Sierra Leone, where, if trends continue, one in seventeen women will die in childbirth. You can join them at PIH.org/hankandjohn.

  ROB HART is the author of The Warehouse. He also wrote the Ash McKenna crime series and Scott Free with James Patterson. His next novel, Paradox Hotel, will be published by Ballantine Books. He lives in New York City. Find more at robwhart.com.

  LYDIA KANG is a practicing physician and author of the young adult novels Control, Catalyst, Toxic, and The November Girl, as well as the adult medical mysteries A Beautiful Poison, The Impossible Girl, and Opium and Absinthe. She has also co-written the nonfiction book Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything with Nate Pedersen. Lydia saw Star Wars in the movie theater at age six and has been whining about Tosche Station ever since.

  MICHAEL KOGGE is a bestselling author and screenwriter. Among his Star Wars works, he wrote the junior novels for the Star Wars sequel film trilogy and the Rebels animated series. His other titles include books for HBO’s Game of Thrones and Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts franchises, the movie companion novel Batman v Superman: Cross Fire, and the original graphic novel Empire of the Wolf, an epic tale of werewolves in ancient Rome. You can find him on the Web at michaelkogge.com.

  R. F. KUANG is the Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy award nominated author of The Poppy War and The Dragon Republic (Harper Voyager). She has an MPhil in Chinese studies from the University of Cambridge and is currently pursuing an MSc in contemporary Chinese studies at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship. She also translates Chinese science fiction to English. Her debut The Poppy War was listed by Time, Amazon, Goodreads, and The Guardian as one of the best books of 2018 and has won the Crawford Award and Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel.

  C. B. LEE is a Lambda Literary Award–nominated writer of young adult science fiction and fantasy. Her works include the Sidekick Squad series (Duet Books), Ben 10 graphic novels (Boom! Studios), Out Now: Queer We Go Again (HarperTeen), and Minecraft: The Shipwreck (Penguin Random House). Lee’s work has been featured in Teen Vogue, Wired magazine, Hypable, Tor’s Best of Fantasy and Sci Fi, and the American Library Association’s Rainbow List.

  MACKENZI LEE holds a BA in history and an MFA from Simmons College in writing for children and young adults. She is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World, and Marvel’s Loki: Where Mischief Lies, among others. In 2019, she was named to the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 list for her work in bringing minority narratives to historical fiction and nonfiction. She loves Diet Coke, sweater weather, and, more than anything, Star Wars.

  JOHN JACKSON MILLER is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Kenobi, Star Wars: A New Dawn, Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith, and the Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic graphic novel collections, as well as novels, comics, and short stories for franchises including Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, Battlestar Galactica, Mass Effect, and Halo. A comics industry historian, he runs the Comichron website. His fiction website is farawaypress.com.

  MICHAEL MORECI is a bestselling comics author and novelist. His original works include the space adventure novels Black Star Renegades and We Are Mayhem as well as the comic series Wasted Space, The Plot, Curse, Roche Limit, Burning Fields, and more. He’s also written many canonical comics for Star Wars, and he’s currently working on his next novel. He lives with his family just outside Chicago.

  DANIEL JOSÉ OLDER is the New York Times bestselling author of the middle grade historical fantasy series Dactyl Hill Squad, The Book of Lost Saints, the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series, Star Wars: Last Shot, and the award-winning young adult series Shadowshaper Cypher, which won the International Latino Book Award and was shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize in Young Readers Literature, the Andre Norton Award, the Locus, the Mythopoeic Award, and named one of Esquires 80 Books Every Person Should Read. He is a lead story architect on the Star Wars cross platform initiative The High Republic. He co-wrote the upcoming graphic novel Death’s Day and writes the monthly IDW comic book series The High Republic Adventures. You can find more info and read about his decade-long career as an NYC paramedic at http://danieljoseolder.net/.

  MARK OSHIRO is the award-winning author of Anger Is a Gift, which was a finalist in the 31st Annual Lambda Literary Awards for LGBTQ YA and a winner of the Schneider Family Book Award in 2019. Their upcoming books are a YA fantasy, Each of Us a Desert, and their middle-grade debut, The Insiders. When they are not writing, they run the online Mark Does Stuff universe and are trying to pet every dog in the world.

  AMY RATCLIFFE is the author of Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy, The Jedi Mind, and the upcoming A Kid’s Guide to Fandom and The Art of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. She’s the managing editor for Nerdist, a Star Wars Celebration stage host, and an entertainment reporter featured at StarWars.com, Star Wars Insider, IGN, and more. Born and raised in a small Ohio town, Amy lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two cats.

  BETH REVIS is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Rebel Rising, Across the Universe, and Give the Dark My Love, among others. Beth currently lives in North Carolina with her husband and her young Padawan, who trains regularly in the fine art of cardboard-tube lightsaber dueling.

  LILLIAM RIVERA is an award-winning writer and author of children’s books Goldie Vance: The Hotel Whodunit, Dealing in Dreams, The Education of Margot Sanchez, and the forthcoming young-adult novel Never Look Back (September 2020), published by Bloomsbury. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Elle, to name a few. A Bronx, New York native, Lilliam currently lives in Los Angeles.

  CAVAN SCOTT is a UK number one bestseller who has written for such popular worlds as Star Wars, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Assassin’s Creed, Judge Dredd, Pacific Rim, and Sherlock Holmes. He is the author of Star Wars: Dooku: Jedi Lost, The Patchwork Devil, and Shadow Service, and is one of the story architects for Lucasfilm’s epic multimedia initiative, Star Wars: The High Republic. He has written comics for Marvel, IDW, Dark Horse, Vertigo, 2000 AD, and The Beano. A former magazine editor, Cavan Scott lives in Bristol with his wife and daughters. His lifelong passions include classic scary movies, folklore, audio drama, the music of David Bowie, and walking. He owns far too many action figures.

  EMILY SKRUTSKIE was born in Massachusetts, raised in Virginia, and forged in the mountains above Boulder, Colorado. She attended Cornell University and now lives and works
in Los Angeles. Skrutskie is the author of Bonds of Brass, Hullmetal Girls, The Abyss Surrounds Us, and The Edge of the Abyss.

  KAREN STRONG is the author of the critically acclaimed middle-grade novel Just South of Home, which was selected for several best-of-year lists, including Kirkus Reviews Best Books, CCBC Choices, and Bank Street Best Books. Her short fiction appears in the sci-fi and fantasy anthology A Phoenix First Must Burn. Born and raised in the rural South, she is a graduate of the University of Georgia and an advocate of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). An avid lover of strong coffee, yellow flowers, and night skies, Karen lives in Atlanta.

  ANNE TOOLE is a Writers Guild Award winner who has written for videogames, TV and digital series, animation, comics, and more. Her work most recently appeared on Netflix’s anime series Cannon Busters, Titan’s Horizon Zero Dawn comic book, and in the BBC/Eline console title Beyond Blue.

  Her credits include the award-winning PS4 exclusive Horizon: Zero Dawn; The Witcher; and The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a short-form digital series that won an Emmy. She also created Alles Liebe, Annette, a digital series for German broadcaster MDR. Anne has spoken extensively on storytelling across platforms at such conferences as South by Southwest, Comic-con International, GDC Europe, and GDC, as well as in presentations at MIT, Harvard, and Cannes. She has served as the vice chair of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA). A citizen of Ireland as well as the United States, Anne holds a degree in archaeology from Harvard.

  CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE is the New York Times bestselling author of dozens of works of science fiction and fantasy including Space Opera, The Refrigerator Monologues, and the Fairyland series. She has won or been nominated for nearly every award in her field. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her partner, her son, and several other mischievous beasts.

  AUSTIN WALKER is the host of the actual play podcast Friends at the Table, where he tells stories about anticapitalist robots and terribly sad gods. He is also an award-winning games journalist, critic, and podcaster whose words and voice have appeared at Paste Magazine, New Statesman, Giant Bomb, and VICE Media’s Waypoint Radio. He currently lives in (and loves) Queens.

  MARTHA WELLS has been an SF/F writer since her first fantasy novel was published in 1993, and a Star Wars fan since she saw A New Hope in the theater in 1977. Her work includes The Books of the Raksura series, The Death of the Necromancer, the Ile-Rien trilogy, The Murderbot Diaries series, media tie-ins for Star Wars and Stargate: Atlantis, as well as short fiction, YA novels, and nonfiction. She was also the lead writer for the story team of Magic: The Gathering’s Dominaria expansion in 2018. She has won a Nebula Award, two Hugo Awards, and two Locus Awards, and her work has appeared on the Philip K. Dick Award ballot, the BSFA Award ballot, the USA Today Bestseller List, and the New York Times Bestseller List.

  DJANGO WEXLER graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh with degrees in creative writing and computer science, and worked for the university in artificial intelligence research. Eventually he migrated to Microsoft in Seattle, where he now lives with two cats and a teetering mountain of books. When not writing, he wrangles computers, paints tiny soldiers, and plays games of all sorts. He is the author of epic fantasies Ashes of the Sun, The Shadow Campaigns, and YA fantasy The Wells of Sorcery.

  KIERSTEN WHITE is the New York Times bestselling, Stoker Award–winning author of many books, including the And I Darken trilogy, the Slayer series, the Camelot Rising trilogy, and The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein. She owns a perfectly reasonable number of lightsabers, and sometimes even lets her kids play with them.

  GARY WHITTA is a screenwriter and author best known as the co-writer of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. He also wrote several episodes of Star Wars Rebels, adapted The Last Jedi for Marvel Comics, and was a contributor to the first volume of Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.

  BRITTANY N. WILLIAMS is a staff writer for Black Nerd Problems, with her work also appearing on Tor.com and in The Indypendent. As a classically trained actress, she’s performed on three continents including a year spent as a principal vocalist at Hong Kong Disneyland. She’s currently working on her first novel, That Self-Same Metal, a YA historical fantasy set in William Shakespeare’s London.

  CHARLES YU is the author of four books, including his latest novel, Interior Chinatown. He has received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award and has been nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the HBO series Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX, AMC, and Adult Swim. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Time magazine, among other publications.

  JIM ZUB is a writer, artist, and art instructor based in Toronto, Canada. Over the past twenty years he’s worked for a diverse array of publishing, film, and game clients, including Marvel, DC Comics, Disney, Capcom, Hasbro, Cartoon Network, and Bandai-Namco.

  He juggles his time between being a freelance comic writer and a professor teaching drawing and storytelling courses in Seneca College’s award-winning animation program. His current comic projects include Conan the Barbarian, Stranger Things and Dungeons & Dragons, and Stone Star. Find out more at jimzub.com.

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