the STAR-BRIDGE series: StarBridge, Silent Dances, Shadow World,
Serpent's Gift, and Silent Songs (Ace Books). In addition, she has
coauthored two fantasy novels with Andre Norton: Gryphon's Eyrie and
Songsmith (Tor Books).
One of her short stories recently appeared in Tales from the Mos Eisley
Cantina. His. Crispin is a frequent guest at STAR TREK and science
fiction conventions, where she often teaches writers' workshops. A
Maryland resident, she lives with her teenage son Jason, two horses, and
three cats.
DAN'L DANEHY-OAKES is a typical SF writer: too bright to work in a
McDonald's, not bright enough to be a real scientist, and physically
unfit, he took refuge at an early age in vivid fantasy life. "Shaara
and the Sarlacc" is his vengeance on Certain Persons. You know who you
are.
GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER won the Nebula Award in 1988 for his novelette
"Schrodinger's Kitten," though he is perhaps best known for his humorous
work. He lives in New Orleans.
Living in the Watsonville, California, wilderness amid lettuce,
strawberries, apples, ollalie berries, and an occasional zucchini,
MARINA FITCH plays with children for fun and profit. Currently at work
on a novel, she has published short fiction in F&SF, Asimov, Pulphouse
Hardback, MZB, and Writers of the Future Vol. II.
KENNETH C. FLINT of Omaha, Nebraska, is to date the author of fifteen
novels for Bantam Doubleday Dell Books. All are works of
adventure/fantasy, many of which are based. upon ancient Celtic legends
and myths. One of his short stories was included in Tales from the Mos
Eisley Cantina.
Award-winning fantasy author ESTHER M. FRIESNER has a PhD from Yale
University and a lifelong interest in cultures and mythologies beyond
the Greek/ Norse/Celtic realm. She is perhaps best known for her
humorous works such as the recently published trilogy Majyk By Accident,
Majyk By Hook or Crook, and Majyk By Design from Ace Books.
However, she also enjoys a growing reputation for writing more serious
fantasies such as the critically acclaimed Yesterday We Saw Mermaids
from Tor Books. In addition, she has been branching out in science
fiction novels and is currently working on The Sherwood Game for Baen
Books.
Her STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE novel, Warchild, appeared in September
1994.
of the Jedi, sent her to a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away. She
attended college at the University of California in Riverside and spent
one year at the University of Bordeaux in France.
After obtaining a master's degree in medieval history, she held a
variety of jobs: model, clerk, high school teacher, karate instructor
(she holds a black belt in Shotokan Karate), technical writer. Her
novels are mostly sword-and-sorcery fantasy, though she has also written
a historical whodunit, a vampire novel, and novels and novelizations
from television shows, notably Beauty and the Beast and Star Trek. She
edited an anthology of original vampire stories, Sisters of the Night.
Her interests besides writing include dancing, painting, historical and
fantasy costuming, and occasionally carpentry.
She resides in a big, ugly house in Los Angeles with the two cutest
Pekingeses in the world.
DARYL F. MALLETT is a freelance writer and editor, an employee of
American West Airlines, and father of a delightful little boy named
Jake, among other things. Though known for his nonfiction work with the
Borgo Press and the Science Fiction Research Association, this marks his
first professional fiction sale.
j. D. MONTGOMERY does not exist . . . not really.
JUDITH and GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS have been a writing team since 1986.
In fiction they have written three novels in the ongoing STAR TREK
series, the first novel in the ALIEN NATION series, and have created
their own action-adventure fantasy series in THE CHRONICLES OF GALEN
SWORD. In nonfiction, they are authors of The Making of Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine and the forthcoming Art of Star Trek. Their other writing
credits range from comic books to episodes of Beyond Reality, MTV's
Catwalk, The Legend of Prince Valiant, and Batman: The Animated Series.
For the 1994--95 television season, the Reeves-Stevenses have helped
develop and are executive story editors for the new animated science
fiction series Phantom 2040, a futuristic updating of Lee Falk's classic
costumed hero.
JENNIFER ROBERSON has published two best-selling fantasy series, the
CHRONICLES OF THE CHEYSULI and the SWORD-DANCER saga, as well as the
historical novels Lady of the Forest, a reinterpretation of the Robin
Hood legend, and Glen of Sorrows, recounting the Massacre of Glencoe in
the highlands of seventeenth-century Scotland. She has also published
many short stories, including "Soup's On" in Tales from the Mos Eisley
Cantina, which first introduced the assassin Dannik Jerriko.
Her upcoming projects include a fantasy collaboration with Melanie Rawn
and Kate Elliott, titled The Golden Key, and a fantasy trilogy called
Shade and Shadow.
KATHY TYERS is the author of Star Wars: The Truce at Bakura and four
other Bantam Spectra novels. Kathy hung up her dancing costumes and
laid aside her finger cymbals to study taste kwon do with her son.
Tae kwon do is better exercise, but she misses the music.
Kathy lives with her family near Bozeman, Montana.
She is currently working on her next novel for Bantam
DEBORAH WHEELER grew up mostly in California, went to college in Oregon,
grew her hair long and protested everything during the sixties.
It took her a long time and three academic degrees (bachelor's in
biology, master's in psychology, doctorate in chiropractic) to figure
out what she needed to do in life was to write. At the end of the
seventies she hit total career burnout trying to be superwoman, dean of
a chiropractic college, and new mother, dumped the career but not the
kid, started writing seriously. She's since had a second child, studied
martial arts (four years of tai chi ch'uan, eighteen years of kung fu),
and lived in France. She teaches a parent-toddler gym class at the
local Y and is fairy godmother/volunteer slavedriver for the library at
the local elementary school. She has had short stories published in
almost all the Sword and Sorceress and Darkover anthologies, also in
Spells of Wonder, Pandora, MZB' s Fantasy magazine, and Fantasy and '
Science Fiction. She will also have stories in (upcoming anthologies)
Sisters of the Night, Witch Fantastic, and Return to Avalon. Her first
novel, Jaydium, came out from DAW in May 1993 and her second,
Northlight, is in the pipeline for early 1995.
DAVE WOLVERTON is the author of several novels, including Star Wars: The
Courtship of Princess Leia, The Golden Queen, Serpent Catch, Path of the
Hero, and On My Way to Paradise. In 1986 he won the grand prize for the
Writers of the Future contest. He has worked as a prison guard,
missionary, business manager, editor, and technical writer.
WILLI
AM F. WU is best known for his contemporary fantasy short story
"Wong's Lost and Found Emporium," a multiple-award nominee that was
adapted into an episode of the revived Twilight Zone. A five-time
nominee for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards, he is the author
of the six-volume series ISAAC ASIMOV'S ROBOTS IN TIME, for Avon. Wu
was born and raised in the Kansas City area and educated at the
University of Michigan, where he received a PhD in American Culture. He
is divorced and now lives in the Mojave Desert north .of Los Angeles.
prestigious Hugo Award for his novella "Cascade Point," In non-STAR WARS
work, his recent novels include Conquerors' Pride and Conquerors'
Heritage.
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