by Aeon Authors
John Kratman (“Harry the Crow”) is a husband and the father of triplet girls. When he’s not busy spending time with his family, he’s a fulltime techno-bureaucrat. He lives in Rhode Island.
John’s fiction has also appeared in Jim Baen’s Universe and Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Odyssey.
Check out his website and blog at http://johnkratman.com/.
David D. Levine (“Moonlight on the Carpet”) is a lifelong SF reader whose midlife crisis was to take a sabbatical from his high-tech job to attend Clarion West in 2000. It seems to have worked. He made his first professional sale in 2001, won the Writers of the Future Contest in 2002, was nominated for the John W. Campbell award in 2003, was nominated for the Hugo Award and the Campbell again in 2004, and won a Hugo in 2006 (Best Short Story, for “Tk’Tk’Tk”). He is currently working on a novel. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Kate Yule, with whom he edits the fanzine Bento.
David’s website is http://www.BentoPress.com/sf/.
When not scribbling, Lisa Mantchev can be found on the beach, up a tree, making jam, or repairing things with her trusty glue gun. Her stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, Æon, and Abyss & Apex. More will be appearing soon in Japanese Dreams and Electric Velocipede. She is currently at work on the third novel in the Théâtre Illuminata trilogy.
Lisa’s story “Mirror Bound” appeared in Æon Nine.
You can Taste the Bad Candy at her website: http://www.lisamantchev.com.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch (“Signals”)’s novels (science fiction, fantasy, mystery/crime, and romance) have been published in 14 countries in 13 different languages. She is the only person in the history of the science fiction field to have won Hugo awards for both editing and fiction. Her short work has been reprinted in six Year’s Best collections. She has also been the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award, the Herodotus Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel, the Ellery Queen Reader’s Choice Award, the Science Fiction Age Reader’s Choice Award, and the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award, and been nominated for the Locus, Nebula, and Sturgeon awards, and the Asimov’s Reader’s Choice Award.
From 1991-1996 Kris was the editor of the prestigious Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Before that, she and Dean Wesley Smith started and ran Pulphouse Publishing, a science fiction and mystery press in Eugene, Oregon. She lives and works on the Oregon Coast.
Visit Kris’s website at http://www.kristinekathrynrusch.com/.
Photo by N.E. Lilly/GreenTentacles
Lawrence M. Schoen (“Fitzwell’s Oracle”) holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, spent ten years as a college professor, and currently works as research director and chief compliance officer for a series of mental health and addiction treatment facilities. He’s also one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Klingon language. His fiction has appeared in such places as Absolute Magnitude, Æon, Analog, Andromeda Spaceways, Apex Digest, Artemis, and the All Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories anthology, and that’s just the A’s. He lives in Philadelphia.
Visit Lawrence’s website at http://www.klingonguy.com/.
We consider ourselves extremely lucky to have been around long enough to be planning our thirteenth issue since our launch in November 2004, and we hope you’ll think yourself lucky to read seven great stories, two fantastic columns, and three wonderful poems by Æon authors in Æon Thirteen.
Jeffe Kennedy will kick us off with “Pearl,” a story about the collision of old humanity and new, and the things that never change.
S. Hutson Blount makes his Æon debut with a pizza-flavored tale of old-school gods and rising aspirants—“One Avatar, Hold the Anchovies.”
David Le Dauphin takes you to a strange place in dangerous times in “Little Moon, Too, Goes Round.”
Three authors will make return appearances in Æon Thirteen. Welcome back Daniel Marcus (“Echo Beach,” Æon Eight) as he reveals the darkness that lies behind “The Dam.”
Marissa K. Lingen (“Things We Sell to Tourists” Æon Six, and “Michael Banks, Home From the War,” Æon Nine) returns for a charmed third appearance with an Orphean tale of “Swimming Back From Hell by Moonlight”.
Nebula and Hugo Award finalist Bruce McAllister (“The Passion: a Western,” Æon Seven) makes his second appearance in our electronic pages with the story of a professional called upon to make a very special “Hit.”
And to wrap it all up, a tale of allegories and their friends and neighbors from Craig D.B. Patton: “Misery Loves.”
Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dr. Rob Furey will return with columns to make you think, and we’ll have poetry by two returning Æon poets: Rhysling Award winner Greg Beatty and Aurora Award Winner Marcie Lynn Tentchoff.
We hope you’ll join us in the future.
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The Blood of Father Time, by Alan M. Clark, Stephen C. Merritt, and Lorelei Shannon
Electric Story
Flatland: The Movie
“Firewall,” by David D. Levine, appearing in Transhuman (Baen Books)
The Internet Review of Science Fiction (IROSF)
Nightshadows, by William F. Nolan (Darkwood)
Recovery Man, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Thriller Doctor
Weird Tales/Fantasy-Magazine
Polyphony 6 (Wheatland Press)
Where Angels Fear, the collected short fiction of Ken Rand, Volume 1 (Fairwood)