Book Read Free

Tales From Jabba's Palace

Page 47

by Kevin J. Anderson


  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.

 

 

 


‹ Prev