– NALO HOPKINSON –
Nalo Hopkinson (www.nalohopkinson.com), born in Jamaica, has lived in Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana, and now teaches creative writing at the University of California Riverside in the United States. She is the author of six novels, two short story collections, and a chapbook including Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon’s Arms, The Chaos, and Sister Mine. She edited anthologies Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, and Mojo: Conjure Stories. She is a recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the Locus Award for Best New Writer, the World Fantasy Award, the Sunburst Award (twice), the Aurora Award, the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, and the Norton Award. Her most recent book is collection, Falling in Love with Hominids.
– KEN LIU –
Ken Liu (kenliu.name) is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards, he has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among other places. He also translated the Hugo-winning novel, The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin. Ken’s debut novel, The Grace of Kings, the first in a silkpunk epic fantasy, is a finalist for the Nebula Award. Sequel The Wall of Storms is due later this year. His debut short story collection in English, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, was published in March 2016. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
– PAUL MCAULEY –
Paul McAuley (unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com) is the author of more than twenty novels, several collections of short stories, and a BFI Film Classic monograph on Terry Gilliam’s film Brazil. His fiction has won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W Campbell Memorial Award, the Sidewise Award, the British Fantasy Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His most recent book is novel Into Everywhere. He is currently working on a novel, Austral, set in the forests and fjords of the Antarctic Peninsula, and lives in North London, just 46 metres above sea level.
– SAM J. MILLER –
Sam J. Miller (www.samjmiller.com) is a writer and a community organizer. His fiction is in Lightspeed, Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, and The Minnesota Review, among others. He is a nominee for the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon Awards, a winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, and a graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop. His debut novel The Art of Starving is forthcoming from HarperCollins. He lives in New York City.
– JAMES MORROW –
Born in 1947, James Morrow (jamesmorrow.info) has been writing fiction ever since, as a seven-year-old living in the Philadelphia suburbs, he dictated “The Story of the Dog Family” to his mother, who dutifully typed it up and bound the pages with yarn. This three-page, six-chapter fantasy is still in the author’s private archives. Upon reaching adulthood, Morrow continued making fiction, eventually producing ten novels, most of them in theological-satirical mode. He has won the World Fantasy Award twice (for Only Begotten Daughter and Towing Jehovah), the Nebula Award twice (for “The Deluge” and the novella City of Truth), and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award once (for the novella Shambling Towards Hiroshima). In recent years Morrow has taken to writing historical fiction informed by a fantastika sensibility, including The Last Witchfinder (dramatizing the birth of the Enlightenment), Galápagos Regained (about the coming of the Darwinian worldview), and a novel-in-progress centered on the A.D. 325 Council of Nicaea. A story collection, Reality by Other Means: the Best Short Fiction of James Morrow, appeared last year from Wesleyan University Press. He makes his home in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife, an enigmatic sheepdog, and a loopy beagle.
– KIM STANLEY ROBINSON –
Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. He is the author of seventeen novels and five collections of short fiction. His books include the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting, The Years of Rice and Salt, Antarctica, and 2312. In 2008, he was named a ‘Hero of the Environment’ by Time magazine, and he recently joined in the Sequoia Parks Foundation’s Artists in the Back Country program. His most recent books are major new novel Aurora and Green Earth, a revised omnibus of the ‘Science in the Capital’ books. He lives in Davis, California with his wife of more than 30 years, environmental chemist Lisa Howland Nowell, and their two sons.
– CHRISTOPHER ROWE –
Christopher Rowe (www.christopherowe.net) has published more than twenty short stories, and has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards. Frequently reprinted, his work has been translated into a half-dozen languages around the world, and has been praised by the New York Times Book Review. His story “Another Word For Map is Faith” made the long list in the 2007 Best American Short Stories volume, and his early fiction was collected in a chapbook, Bittersweet Creek and Other Stories, by Small Beer Press. His Forgotten Realms novel, Sandstorm, was published in 2010 by Wizards of the Coast. He holds an MFA in writing at the Bluegrass Writers Studio of Eastern Kentucky University and is hard at work on Sarah Across America, a new novel about maps, megafauna, and other obsessions. His first short story collection is due from Small Beer Press next year. He lives in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky, with his wife, novelist Gwenda Bond, and their pets.
– RACHEL SWIRSKY –
Rachel Swirsky (www.rachelswirsky.com) holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. Her short fiction has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies including Tor.com, Subterranean Online, and Clarkesworld Magazine. It has also been nominated for the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Locus Award, and won the Nebula Award twice. Her second collection, How the World Became Quiet: Myths of the Past, Present and Future, came out from Subterranean Press in 2013. She had a book of illustrated ballet stories as a child from which she learned about Coppelia, but alas her attempts to perform ballet were stymied by her lack of grace.
– LAVIE TIDHAR –
Lavie Tidhar (lavietidhar.wordpress.com) grew up on a kibbutz in Israel and has since lived in South Africa, the UK, Vanuatu and Laos. He is the author of six novels including World Fantasy Award winner Osama, Martian Sands, The Bookman Trilogy, and The Violent Century. Tidhar has published more than 130 short stories, including linked short story collection Hebrewpunk, and edited The Apex Book of World SF anthologies. His most recent books are novel A Man Lies Dreaming and the collection Central Station.
– CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE –
Catherynne M. Valente (www.catherynnemvalente.com) is the New York Times bestselling author of over two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, Deathless, Radiance, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus, and Hugo Awards. She has been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with a small but growing menagerie of beasts, some of which are human.
– SEAN WILLIAMS –
Sean Williams (www.seanwilliams.com) is an award-winning, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of over forty novels and one hundred stories, including some set in the Star Wars and Doctor Who universes, and some written with Garth Nix. His latest is Hollowgirl, the concluding volume of his Twinmaker trilogy. He lives up the road from Australia’s finest chocolate factory with his family and a pet plastic fish.
Jonathan Strahan, the award-winning and much lauded editor of many of genre’s best known anthologies, is back with his tenth volume in this fascinating series, featuring the best science fiction and fantasy from 2015. With established names and new talent, this diverse and ground-breaking collection will take the reader to the outer reaches of space and the inner realms of humanity with stories of fantastical worlds and worlds that may still come to pass.
FEATURING NEIL GAIMAN
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THE FUTURE IS OURSELVES
The world is rapidly changing. We surf future-shock every day, as the progress of technology races ever on. Increasingly we are asking: how do we change to live in the world to come?
Whether it’s climate change, inundated coastlines and drowned cities; the cramped confines of a tin can hurtling through space to the outer reaches of our Solar System; or the rush of being uploaded into cyberspace, our minds and bodies are going to have to drastically alter.
Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us another incredible volume in his much praised science-fiction anthology series, featuring stories by Madeline Ashby, John Barnes, James S.A. Corey, Gregory Benford, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Simon Ings, Kameron Hurley, Nancy Kress, Gwyneth Jones, Yoon Ha Lee, Bruce Sterling, Sean Williams, Aliette de Bodard, Ramez Naam, An Owomoyela and Ian McDonald.
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HUMANITY AMONG THE STARS
What happens when we reach out into the vastness of space? What hope for us amongst the stars?
Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us fourteen new tales of the future, from some of the finest science fiction writers in the field.
The fourteen startling stories in this anthology feature the work of Greg Egan, Aliette de Bodard, Ian McDonald, Karl Schroeder, Pat Cadigan, Karen Lord, Ellen Klages, Adam Roberts, Linda Nagata, Hannu Rajaniemi, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Ken MacLeod, Alastair Reynolds and Peter Watts.
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