Gio Clairval is an Italy-born writer who used to live in Paris, France, and is now based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her stories have appeared in Weird Tales, Daily Science Fiction, Galaxy’s Edge, and many others. She translates literary works from French, Italian, Spanish and German.
Edward J. McFadden III juggles a full-time career as a university administrator and teacher, with his writing aspirations. His new horror thriller Awake is now available from Severed Press. His first published novel, a mysterious-dark-thriller The Black Death of Babylon, was published in 2012, followed by Our Dying Land and Hoaxers. He is the author/editor of: Anywhere But Here, Lucky 13, Jigsaw Nation, Deconstructing Tolkien: A Fundamental Analysis of The Lord of the Rings,Time Capsule, Epitaphs (W/ Tom Piccirilli), The Second Coming, Thoughts of Christmas, and The Best of Pirate Writings. He lives on Long Island with his wife Dawn, their daughter Samantha, and their mutt Oli.
Steve Perry has sold dozens of stories to magazines and anthologies, as well as a considerable number of novels, animated teleplays, non-fiction articles, reviews, and essays, along with a couple of unproduced movie scripts. He wrote for Batman: The Animated Series during its first emmy-award winning season, and during the second season, one of his scripts was nominated for an emmy for Outstanding Writing. His novelization of Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire spent ten weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. He also did the best selling novelization for the summer blockbuster movie Men in Black, and seven of his collaborative novels for Tom Clancy’s Net Force series have made the New York TimesList. For the past several years he has concentrated on books, and is currently working on his 54th novel.
Gerald Hausman is the author of mythological animal books for both children and adults. Many have been translated into foreign languages. In 1994 he co-authored the novel, Wilderness with Roger Zelazny (Roger’s only Western) and they became very close friends. Aside from writing, Gerald is also the editor of numerous books for Random House, Putnam, Viking, St. Martin’s, Simon & Schuster and others. Gerald’s latest novel is The Evil Chasing Way published by Speaking Volumes in Santa Fe New Mexico.
Roger Zelazny was a science fiction and fantasy writer best known for his ten book series the Chronicles of Amber. He was a six time Hugo Award winner and a three time Nebula Award Winner. He published more than 50 novels in his lifetime. His first novel This Immortal, won the Hugo for best novel, a shorter version of the book entitled “...And Call Me Conrad” had already won the Hugo Award for best novella. Lord of Light, his second novel, won the Hugo award and was nominated for the Nebula award. In 1970 Nine Princes in Amber, the first of his ten book Amber series, was published. This series would garner him an international following. He died in 1995 at the age of 58.
Theodore Krulik is the author of The Complete Amber Sourcebook. He is also the author of Roger Zelazny, a literary biography of Roger Zelazny. He is a distinguished scholar who completed his Master's thesis on a textual, critical, and biographic study of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, A Modern Day Prometheus. His essays on genre and television may be found on Tor.com.
Lawrence Watt-Evans is the author of some fifty novels and well over a hundred short stories, mostly fantasy, science fiction, and horror, including the Hugo-winning “Why I Left Harry’s All-Night Hamburgers” and the long-running Legends of Ethshar fantasy series. He has loved Roger Zelazny’s work since he first read “A Rose for Ecclesiastes” in 1963, and is honored to be included here.
Michael H. Hanson is the creator of the ongoing Sha'daa shared-world anthology series. He has three collections of poetry Autumn Blush, Jubilant Whispers, and Dark Parchments: Midnight Curses and Verses. In 2017, Michael’s short story “C.H.A.D.” will be appearing in the Eric S. Brown edited anthology C.H.U.D. Lives! Michael also has stories in Janet Morris's Heroes in Hell anthology volumes: Lawyers in Hell, Rogues in Hell, Dreamers in Hell, Poets in Hell, Doctors in Hell, and Pirates in Hell. Michael is also the Founder of the international writers club, the Fictioneers.
Shariann Lewitt: Author of seventeen novels under five different names, Shariann Lewitt has written hard science fiction, high fantasy, young adult, military science fiction and urban fantasy. She has published over forty short stories; her story “Fieldwork” has been selected for Gardner Dozois’ 34th Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year. Roger Zelazny bears a fair bit of responsibility for this.
Trent Zelazny is the author of several novels, novellas and short stories in numerous genres including, but not limited to, horror, crime, thriller, science fiction, erotica, and humor. He is also a bestselling international playwright, editor of two anthologies, and has written for both television and film. Son of the late science fiction author Roger Zelazny, Trent was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has lived in California, Oregon, and Florida, but currently lives with his fiancé, Laurel, and their dog, Banjo, back in Santa Fe.
Shannon Zelazny is a trained Massage Therapist and Naturopathic Physician, having earned her Doctorate at Bastyr University in Seattle, WA. After a 15 year hiatus, she has returned to her homeland of New Mexico where she is currently serving as a naturopathic consultant, studying Qigong and enjoying spending time with her partner and his two cats, Stella and Stanley.
Acknowledgments
The editors would like to thank the following people for donating to the Shadows and Reflections Indigogo. Without your help this book would not have happened.
Thomas Bull, Solomon Foster, Linda J. Weldon, Laurell Hamilton, Nathan Bardsley, Cliff Winnig, Joe Saul, Andrew Cherry, Elanor Finster, Cheryl Mankin, Kit Kindred, James Scott, Zach Shephard, Michael Stroup, George Terry, Christopher Petrilli, Madeline Ferwerda, Sheryl R. Hayes, Star Straf, Timothy Feely, Edmund Boys, Andy Modell, Cindie Hurley, Matthew Collier, Scott Drummond, Erik Ogan, Aaron Schutz, Kevin Winter, Jim Crider, Charles Lewis, Sandra Hohn, Elizabeth Ray-Trumitch, Matthew R. Sheahan, Zack Wood, Gio Clairval, Tina Swain, Lisa Adler-Golden, Paul Millhouser, Michael H. Hanson, James Manley-Buser, Sarah Williams, Elisabeth Flaum, Bruce Cohen, Garrett Boos, Elektra Hammond, Shelley Souza, David Shaw, Cecilia Tan, Jefferson Krogh, Kat Lemmer, Scott Bradley, Jean-Marie Bergman, James Lowder, Matthew Milne, Carl Rigney, Duffi McDermott, Rick Neal, Chris Martin, Rob Starobin, Chris Knight, Fred Kiesche, Christopher Kovacs, Peter Quinones, Gary M Dockter, Nathaniel Lee, Subrata Sircar, Joshua Wanisko, Richard Chilton, Bridget McKenna, Jason Durall, David W. Goldman, Steve Perry, Daniel Moran, James Zimmerman, Samanda Jeude, Dawn Vogel, Gordon Garb, Jeremy Zimmerman, Marti McKenna
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