by Sean Wallace
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.
N. K. Jemisin is a writer who lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. Her first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, was nominated for Hugo, Nebula, Gemmell Morningstar and Locus Awards and is followed by her second book in the Inheritance Trilogy, The Broken Kingdoms. Her short fiction has also been nominated for a Hugo and a Nebula, as well as attracting several “Year’s Best” Honorable Mentions. “The Effluent Engine” is her first attempt to write steampunk, but she kinda likes it and will write more. Her website is at nkjemisin.com.
Peter M. Ball is a writer from Brisbane, Australia. His publications include the hardboiled faerie novellas Horn and Bleed from Twelfth Planet Press, and his short fiction has appeared in publications such as Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Interfictions II, Shimmer and Eclipse 4. He can be found online at petermball.com.
Sharon Mock’s work has been printed in magazines such as Realms of Fantasy, Clarkesworld Magazine and Fantasy Magazine, where “The Armature of Flight” first appeared. She is a graduate of the Viable Paradise workshop. She lives in Southern California with her husband, the writer and artist Zak Jarvis.
Catherynne M. Valente is an author, poet and sometime critic who has been known to write as many as six impossible things before breakfast. She is to blame for over a dozen works of fiction and poetry, including The Orphan’s Tales, Palimpsest, Deathless and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. She has won the Tiptree Award, the Andre Norton Award, the Mythopoeic Award, the Lambda Award, the Rhysling Award and the Million Writers Award for best web fiction. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her partner, two dogs, an enormous cat and a slightly less enormous accordion.
Alex Dally MacFarlane lives and works in London, where she collects coins and eventually plans to return to academia. Her work has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, EscapePod, Sybil’s Garage, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and various other publications. A handbound limited edition of her story “Two Coins” was published by Papaveria Press. She blogs at alexdallymacfarlane.com.
Michael Swanwick is one of the most interesting and unpredictable writers in science fiction today. His works have been honored with Hugo, Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon and World Fantasy Awards, and have been translated and published throughout the world. Michael is the author of eight novels and five major collections of short fiction. His latest novel, Dancing With Bears, featuring the Post-utopian swindlers Darger & Surplus, is published by Night Shade Books. Swanwick lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Marianne Porter.
Eileen Gunn’s fiction has received the Nebula Award in the US and the Sense of Gender Award in Japan, and been nominated for the Hugo, Philip K. Dick and World Fantasy awards and shortlisted for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. She was the editor/publisher of the late Infinite Matrix webzine, and on dark nights can hear it stomping about in the attic. Gunn served twenty-two years on the board of directors of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. She is the author of the short story collection Stable Strategies and Others, published by Tachyon Publications. Her website is at eileengunn.com.
Tobias S. Buckell is a Caribbean-born speculative fiction writer who grew up in Grenada, the British Virgin Islands and the US Virgin Islands. His latest novel, Sly Moongoose, a Caribbean Space Opera, is published by Tor and his first short story collection, Tides from the New Worlds, was published by Wyrm Publishing in 2009.
Matthew Kressel’s fiction has appeared or will appear in Clarkesworld Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Interzone, Electric Velocipede, Apex Magazine, GUD Magazine and the anthologies Naked City, After, The People of the Book, Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories as well as in other markets. He runs Senses Five Press, which publishes the magazine Sybil’s Garage and the World Fantasy Award-winning Paper Cities. He co-hosts the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in Manhattan alongside Ellen Datlow, and he is a member of the Altered Fluid writers group. His website is matthewkressel.net.
Margo Lanagan has published four collections of short stories (White Time, Black Juice, Red Spikes and Yellowcake) and a dark fantasy novel, Tender Morsels. Her next novel, about selkies, will come out in early 2012. Margo lives in Sydney.
Amal El-Mohtar is a Canadian-born child of the Mediterranean, presently pursuing a PhD at the Cornwall campus of the University of Exeter. She is the author of The Honey Month, a collection of poetry and prose written to the taste of twenty-eight different kinds of honey. Her poem “Song for an Ancient City” received the 2009 Rhysling Award for best short poem, and “The Green Book” received a Nebula nomination for best short story. She also co-edits Goblin Fruit, an online quarterly dedicated to fantastical poetry, with Jessica P. Wick. Find her online at amalelmohtar.com.
Barth Anderson is the author of two novels, The Patron Saint of Plagues and The Magician and The Fool (both published by Bantam Spectra). His short stories have appeared in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons and Talebones, and his story “Lark Till Dawn, Princess” won the Spectrum Award for Best Short Fiction. Anderson is chief blogger at Fair Food Fight and lives in Minneapolis with his wife and children.
Multiple World Fantasy Award-winner Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels The Physiognomy, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass and The Shadow Year. His short story collections are The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream and The Drowned Life. He lives in New Jersey and teaches at Brookdale Community College.
James Morrow is a Nebula Award–winner and the author of Blameless in Abaddon, The Cat’s Pajamas, City of Truth, The Eternal Footman, The Last Witchfinder, Only Begotten Daughter and Towing Jehovah. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania.
Cherie Priest is the author of the bestselling Boneshaker. She has three other works set in the same milieu as Boneshaker: a novella from Subterranean Press called Clementine, another novel from Tor called Dreadnought and “Reluctance”. Priest’s other novels include Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Wings to the Kingdom, Not Flesh Nor Feathers and Fathom. Her forthcoming books include urban fantasies Bloodshot and Hellbent. Her short fiction has appeared in Subterranean Magazine, Apex Digest and Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded.
Margaret Ronald is the author of the novels Spiral Hunt, Wild Hunt and Soul Hunt. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and many other venues. Originally from rural Indiana, she now lives outside Boston.
Megan Arkenberg is a student in Wisconsin, where she lives with dozens of college-ruled notebooks and a pocket watch named Juggernaut. Her work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fantasy Magazine, Ideomancer and many other places. She procrastinates by editing the fantasy e-zine Mirror Dance and the historical fiction e-zine Lacuna.
Benjamin Rosenbaum lives near Basel, Switzerland, with his wife Esther and their eerily clever children, Aviva and Noah. Benjamin’s stories have appeared in Nature, Harper’s, F&SF, Asimov’s, McSweeney’s, Strange Horizons and a collection, The Ant King and Other Stories, from Small Beer Press, and have been translated into fourteen languages. He has been a party clown, a synagogue president, a computer game designer, and can cook a mean risotto. More at benjaminrosenbaum.com.
Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of Shades of Milk and Honey (Tor 2010). In 2008 she received the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. Her stories have appeared in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld and several Year’s Best anthologies. A professional puppeteer and voice actor, she lives in Portland with her husban
d Rob and a dozen manual typewriters. Visit her website maryrobinettekowal.com for more information about her fiction and puppetry.
Samantha Henderson lives on the outskirts of Los Angeles, with an excellent view of the burning hills every summer. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, ChiZine, Fantasy, Abyss & Apex, Weird Tales and Ideomancer and have been podcast on Escape Pod, Podcastle, Drabblecast and StarShipSofa. Her first novel, Heaven’s Bones, was released in 2008 and was a nominee for the Scribe Award. You can stalk her at her livejournal (samhenderson.livejournal.com) or website (samanthahenderson.com).
Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, incuding Sensation and, with Brian Keene, The Damned Highway. His short fiction has appeared in a number of anthologies including Hint Fiction, Lovecraft Unbound and Supernatural Noir. His essays and reportage on politics and economics have appeared in Clamor, Left Turn, The New Humanist and In These Times.
Nicole Kornher-Stace was born in Philadelphia in 1983, moved from the East Coast to the West Coast and back again by the time she was five, and currently lives in New Paltz, NY, with one husband, two ferrets, one Changeling and many many books. Her short fiction and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of magazines and anthologies, including Best American Fantasy, Clockwork Phoenix 3, Apex and Fantasy Magazine. She is the author of Desideria, Demon Lovers and Other Difficulties, and The Winter Triptych. Her current novel-in-progress is a blend of steampunk and mythpunk, with a Lady Explorer, a fake Tarot, a workers’ rebellion, a demon-possessed airship and other miscellany. She can be found online at www.nicolekornherstace.com or wirewalking.livejournal.com.
Lavie Tidhar is the author of steampunk novels The Bookman and Camera Obscura, and the ground-breaking alternative history novel Osama. He grew up on a kibbutz in Israel and has since lived in South Africa, the UK, Vanuatu and Laos. Other works include novellas Cloud Permutations, Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God and linked-story collection HebrewPunk.
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 24
edited by Gardner Dozois
ISBN: 978-1-84901-373-4
Price: £9.99
Seventeen-times winner of the Locus Award for the Year’s Best Anthology
For over twenty years, Gardner Dozois’s compelling annual has deservedly remained the single must-have collection for science fiction fans around the world. Unfailingly offering the very best new stories of the year, it showcases up-and-coming stars alongside established masters of the genre. This year’s collection includes the work of over thirty writers, including Robert Reed, Nina Allan, Kage Baker, Yoon Ha Lee, Ian R. MacLeod, Joe Haldeman, Naomi Novik, Cory Doctorow and Aliette de Bodard.
In addition to over 3000,000 words of fantastic fiction, the anthology includes bonus features such as Dozois’s insightful round-up of the year in SF and an extensive recommended reading guide.
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The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF
edited and with an introduction by Mike Ashley
ISBN: 978-1-84901-305-5
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Apocalypse Now?
Have the last days begun?
Humankind has long been fascinated by the precarious vulnerability of civilization and of the Earth itself. When our fragile civilizations finally go, will it be as a result of nuclear war, or some cosmic catastrophe? The impact of global warming, or a terrorist atrocity? Genetic engineering, or some modern plague more virulent even than HIV or Ebola?
Mike Ashley’s gripping anthology of short stories explores the destruction of civilization and looks at how humanity might strive to survive such a crisis, including the end of the Earth.
A vaccine threatens to turn into a virus that could wipe out mankind in ‘Bloodletting’ by Kate Wilhelm
Will the internet destroy civilization, or save it? ‘When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth’ by Cory Doctorow
In ‘Guardians of the Phoenix’, Eric Brown depicts a world in the grip of climate change
How will the end come, and will you be there to witness it?
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Brave New Love
edited by Paula Guran
ISBN: 978-1-84901-601-8
Price: £6.99
When society crumbles, can young love survive?
When the young are deprived of their bright future and left to survive day to day, what bonds remain between individuals? Can young love survive a dystopian nightmare?
This exciting collection of stories explores the struggles – romantically, emotionally and physically – of teenagers trying to survive after civilization as we know it has fallen apart. The end of our world has come, and those who live on must confront new realities. These are compelling, emotionally charged stories of young lives lived in desperate circumstances.
Including stories by:
Elizabeth Bear • Steve Berman
Seth Cadin • Kiera Cass • Amanda Downum
Jeanne DuPrau • Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Jesse Karp • Diana Peterfreund • Carrie Ryan
Nisi Shawl • John Shirley • William Sleator
Maria V. Snyder • Carrie Vaughn
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Zombie Apocalypse!
created by Stephen Jones
ISBN: 978-1-84901-303-1
Price: £7.99
THE END OF THE WORLD – WITH FLESH-EATING ZOMBIES!
In the near future, a desperate and ever-more controlling UK government attempts to restore a sense of national pride with a New Festival of Britain. But construction work on the site of an old church in south London releases a centuries-old plague that turns its victims into flesh-hungry ghouls whose bite or scratch passes the contagion – a supernatural virus which has the power to revive the dead – on to others.
“The Death” soon sweeps across London and the whole country descends into chaos. When a drastic attempt to eradicate the outbreak at source fails, the plague spreads quickly to mainland Europe and then across the rest of the world.
Told through a series of interconnected eyewitness narratives – text messages, e-mails, blogs, letters, diaries and transcripts – this is an epic story of a world plunged intochaos as the dead battle the living for total domination.
Will humanity triumph over the worldwide zombie plague, or will the walking dead inherit the earth?
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