by Aeon Authors
Dr. Rob Furey (“parallax”) worked on his phD in Gabon, West Africa, on social spiders. He has returned to his study site several times for his own research, with students and once as a forest guide for a natural history film crew from the UK. He has faced down cobras, retreated from army ants, and slept on open wooden platforms in African swamps. Later he went to French Amazonia to work on another social spider species. Not only did he spend time with the spiders, but he watched a gunfight between gold prospectors and French army troops while he ate a meal of roasted tapir. Since then Rob has returned to the tropics several times, usually with students. He spent time as a student himself attending Clarion West. He has published a couple of stories in anthologies since then in addition to articles for dusty tomes on arcane spider behavior. He is currently part of the charter faculty at Harrisburg University, the first new private university in Pennsylvania in over 100 years.
Jeffe Kennedy (“Pearl”) took the crooked road to writing, stopping off at neurobiology, religious studies and environmental consulting before her creative writing began appearing in places like Redbook, Mountain Living, Wyoming Wildlife and Under the Sun. She has been a Ucross Foundation Fellow (2001) and received first place from Pronghorn Press for their Dry Ground (2002) collection. She is also a Wyoming Arts Council roster artist and recipient of the 2005 Doubleday Award and 2007 Fellowship for Poetry. Jeffe has contributed to several anthologies, Drive: Women’s True Stories of the Open Road. (2002), Hard Ground (2003), Bombshells (2007) and an upcoming anthology on gleaning. Her first collection, Wyoming Trucks, True Love and the Weather Channel was published by University of New Mexico Press in 2004. She is currently at work on a speculative fiction novel about a neuroscientist who walks out on her jerk boyfriend, only to fall through a gate at Devils Tower, to become a sorceress in another land. Jeffe lives in Wyoming, with two Maine coon cats, a border collie, and a fish pathologist.
Visit her online at http://www.jeffekennedy.com/.
Marissa K. Lingen (“Swimming Back From Hell by Moonlight”) has been published in Baen’s Universe, Analog, Ideomancer, Oceans of the Mind, and other venues. She has just finished writing a young adult novel that had an unplanned and unfortunate outbreak of accidentally magical puffins in the early chapters; she didn’t mean to. She lives in the Minneapolis area with two large men and one small dog.
Marissa’s story “Things We Sell to Tourists” appeared in Æon Six, and “Michael Banks, Home From the War” in Æon Nine.
Marissa can be found on the Web at http://marissalingen.com/
photo by Tom Wyse
Daniel Marcus (“The Dam”) has published short stories in many literary and genre venues and was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He has taught in the creative writing programs at the U.C. Berkeley Extension and Gotham Writers’ Workshop and is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop. His first short story collection, Binding Energy, is forthcoming from Elastic Press in Spring 2008. He can be found on the web at http://www.danielmarcus.com/.
Daniel’s story “Echo Beach” apeared in Aeon Eight.
Bruce McAllister (“Hit”) began publishing F&SF in another lifetime. His first story, written at 16, appeared in l963 in Fred Pohl’s IF magazine and Judith Merrill’s “Year’s Best.” Since then, seventy stories, two novels Humanity Prime and Dream Baby), twenty years teaching creative writing in university, and most recently, when not writing, coaching and consulting for new and established fiction and screenplay writers. He was out of the F&SF field for over a decade—the reasons too bizarre to synopsize—and is very happy to be back. Stories most recently in Aeon, Asimov’s, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and SciFiction.
Website: http://www.mcallistercoaching.com
Bruce’s story “The Passion: A Western” appeared in Æon Seven.
Craig D. B. Patton (“Misery Loves”) has published stories in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Pocket Books), Book of Dead Things (Twilight Tales), Hell in the Heartland (Annihilation Press), Dred Tales, and Horrorfind. Additional stories are forthcoming in All Hallows and Until Someone Loses an Eye (Twisted Publishing). He lives in Connecticut with his wife and two young sons who insist that he read dozens of stories to them every day. He happily complies.
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/.
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff (“Holiday”) is an Aurora Award winning poet/author who lives with her family and other odd creatures in a small town on Canada’s west coast. Her stories and poetry have appeared in On Spec, Weird Tales, Aoife’s Kiss, Dreams and Nightmares, and Talebones, as well as in various anthologies and online publications.
Marcie’s poems have also appeared in Æon Six, Eight, and Eleven.
In Æon Fourteen six new and returning Æon authors, some poets, and a couple of provocative columnists will take you to places—some not so far from home—that may just widen the edges of your map of reality.
Lavie Tidhar will make his third appearance in Æon with a quintessentially American story featuring some nearly-familiar American faces. Be ready to take what shelter you can from a “Hard Rain at the Fortean Cafe.”
Sarah Edwards will return to the world of “The Butterfly Man,” (Æon Twelve) to allow us to wander “Wild Among Hares.”
Jay Lake, whose ninth Æon appearance this is, will sit us down and spin up a yarn about a boy who finds a “Sweet Rocket.”
Ryan Neal Myers (“The Underthing,” Æon Eleven) will drop us off at a truckstop of the mind in “The Diesel Mnemonic.”
Davin Ireland will make his Æon debut with a story about love and hope at the end of the world in “The March Wind.”
And Mikal Trimm will enchant us with an extraordinary story about the ordinary girl who wears “The Diadem.”
Add to that some excellent speculative poetry and thoughtful contributions from our regular columnists, Dr. Rob Furey and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. With a lineup like this one to look forward to, we know we’ll be seeing you in the future!
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