Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris, where she has a job as a Computer Engineer. In her spare time, she writes speculative fiction: her series of Aztec noir novels, Obsidian and Blood, is published by Angry Robot; and her short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Interzone and the Year’s Best Science Fiction. She has won a Writers of the Future and a British Science Fiction Award, and been a finalist for the Campbell Award, and Nebula Awards. Visit aliettedebodard.com for more information.
Elizabeth Bear was born on the same day as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, but in a different year. She lives in southern New England.
Lavie Tidhar’s most recent novel is Osama (PS Publishing). It has been compared to Philip K. Dick’s seminal work, The Man in the High Castle by both the Guardian and the Financial Times. His other works include steampunk trilogy The Bookman, Camera Obscura and The Great Game, all three from Angry Robot, the novellas Jesus & The Eightfold Path (Immersion Press), Gorel & The Pot-Bellied God (PS Publishing) and many others.
Genevieve Valentine’s fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Apex, Lightspeed, and others, and the anthologies Armored, Running with the Pack, After, and more. Her first novel, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, is out now from Prime. Her nonfiction has appeared in Fantasy, Weird Tales, and Tor.com, and she is a co-author of Guirk’s pop-culture philosophy book Geek Wisdom. Her appetite for bad movies is insatiable, a tragedy she tracks on her blog, genevievevalentine.com.
James L. Cambias writes science fiction stories and designs tabletop roleplaying games and card games. His first fiction sale was “A Diagram of Rapture” to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 2000. Since then he has published seventeen stories in F&SF, Shimmer, Nature, and several original anthologies. His most recent was “Object Three” in the November/December 2011 issue of F&SF. He is Chief Designer for Zygote Games, a company specializing in science-based card games, and writes roleplaying games for Steve Jackson Games, Pinnacle Entertainment, and HERO Games. He lives in Western Massachusetts and keeps warm by burning things.
Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, Deathless, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making. She is the winner of the Andre Norton Award, the Tiptree Award, the Mythopoeic Award, the Rhysling Award, and the Million Writers Award She has been nominated for the Hugo, Locus, and Spectrum Awards, the Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award in 2007 and 2009. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her partner, two dogs, and enormous cat.
PUBLICATION HISTORY
“Eros, Philia, Agape” by Rachel Swirsky. © 2009 by Rachel Swirsky. Originally published in Tor.com.
“Artifice and Intelligence” by Tim Pratt. © 2007 by Tim Pratt. Originally published in Strange Horizons.
“I, Robot” by Cory Doctorow. © 2005 by Cory Doctorow. Originally published in The Infinite Matrix.
“Alternate Girl’s Expatriate Life” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz. © 2010 by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz. Originally published in Interzone.
“The Rising Waters” by Benjamin Crowell. © 2009 by Benjamin Crowell. Originally published in Strange Horizons.
“Houses” by Mark Pantoja. © 2011 by Mark Pantoja. Originally published in Lightspeed.
“The Djinn’s Wife” by Ian McDonald. © 2007 by Ian McDonald. Originally published in Asimov’s.
“Stalker” by Robert Reed. © 2011 by Robert Reed. Originally published in Asimov’s.
“Droplet” by Benjamin Rosenbaum. © 2002 by Benjamin Rosembaum. Originally published in F&SF.
“Kiss Me Twice” by Mary Robinette Kowal. © 2011 by Mary Robinette Kowal. Originally published in Asimov’s.
“Algorithms for Love” by Ken Liu. © 2004 by Ken Liu. Originally published in Strange Horizons.
“A Jar of Goodwill” by Tobias S. Buckell. © 2010 by Tobias S. Buckell Originally published in Clarkesworld Magazine.
“The Shipmaker” by Aliette de Bodard. © 2010 by Aliette de Bodard. Originally published in Interzone.
“Tideline” by Elizabeth Bear. © 2007 by Elizabeth Bear. Originally published in Asimov’s.
“Under the Eaves” by Lavie Tidhar. © 2012 by Lavie Tidhar. Original to this anthology.
“The Nearest Thing” by Genevieve Valentine. © 2011 by Genevieve Valentine. Originally published in Lightspeed.
“Balancing Accounts” by James L. Cambias. © 2008 by James L. Cambias. Originally published in F&SF.
“Silently and Very Fast” by Catherynne M. Valente. © 2011 by Catherynne M. Valente. Originally published by WSFA Press / Clarkesworld Magazine.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Rich Horton is a software engineer in St. Louis. He is a contributing editor to Locus, for which he does short fiction reviews and occasional book reviews; and to Black Gate, for which he does a continuing series of essays about science fiction history.
Sean Wallace is the founder and editor for Prime Books, which won a World Fantasy Award in 2006. In the past he was co-editor of Fantasy and two-time Hugo Award winning and two-time World Fantasy nominee Clarkesworld; the editor of the following anthologies: Best New Fantasy, Fantasy, Horror: The Best of the Year, Japanese Dreams, and The Mammoth Book of Steampunk; and co-editor of Bandersnatch, Fantasy Annual, Phantom and Weird Tales: The 21st Century. He lives in Rockville MD with his wife, Jennifer, and their twin daughters, Cordelia and Natalie.
OTHER BOOKS BY THE EDITORS
Rich Horton & Sean Wallace
Robots 2: The Recent A.I. (forthcoming)
War and Space: Recent Combat (forthcoming)
Rich Horton
Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition
Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition
Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition
Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition
Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition
Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 Edition
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010 Edition
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2011 Edition
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012 Edition (forthcoming)
Unplugged: The Web’s Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy, 2008
Sean Wallace
Best New Fantasy
Fantasy (with Paul Tremblay)
Horror: The Best of the Year, 2006 (with John Betancourt)
Japanese Dreams
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
Phantom (with Paul Tremblay)
Realms 1 (with Nick Mamatas)
Realms 2 (with Nick Mamatas)
Weird Tales: The 21st Century (with Stephen H. Segal)
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