He is author of the "Tom Tyson" cycle of stories, collected in Rynosseros, Blue Tyson, Twilight Beach, and Rynemonn; science fiction story cycle Wormwood; and horror collections An Intimate Knowledge of the Night and World Fantasy Award nominee Blackwater Days. His work has also been collected in career retrospectives Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling and Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear.
Jeffrey Ford was born in West Islip, New York, in 1955. He worked as a machinist and as a clammer, before studying English with John Gardner at the State University of New York. He is the author of six novels, including World Fantasy Award winner The Physiognomy, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, and Edgar Allan Poe Award winner The Girl in the Glass. His short fiction is collected in World Fantasy Award winning collection The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories and in The Empire of Ice Cream. His short fiction has won the World Fantasy, Nebula, and Fountain Awards. His most recent book is new novel The Shadow Year, and upcoming a new collection, The Drowned Life. Ford lives in southern New Jersey where he teaches writing and literature.
Daryl Gregory lives in State College, Pennsylvania, where he writes web code in the morning and fiction in the afternoon. His short stories have appeared in Asimov's, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and several "year's best" anthologies. His first novel, Pandemonium, which takes a hard look at the superhero archetype, was just published.
Nancy Kress published her first story, "The Earth Dwellers," in 1976. Her first novel, fantasy The Prince of Morning Bells, appeared in 1981 and was followed by thirteen novels of science fiction or fantasy, one YA novel, two thrillers, three story collections, and two books on writing. Although Kress began writing fantasy, she currently writes science fiction, most usually about genetic engineering. Her most famous work is Hugo and Nebula award-winning novella "Beggars in Spain," which was published in 1991. Her most recent books are novels Crossfire and Nothing Human and collection Nano Comes To Clifford Falls. Kress has two new novels, Steal Across the Sky and Dogs, due for publication shortly.
Margo Lanagan was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, and has a BA in History from Sydney University. She spent ten years as a freelance book editor and currently makes a living as a technical writer. Lanagan wrote fantasies WildGame, The Tankermen, and Walking Through Albert. She has also written three acclaimed original story collections: White Time, World Fantasy Award winner Black Juice, and Red Spikes. Her latest book is a fantasy novel for young adults, Tender Morsels. Lanagan currently lives in Sydney with her partner and their two children.
David Moles was born on the anniversary of the R.101 disaster. He has lived in seven time zones on three continents, and hopes someday to collect the whole set.
David was a finalist for the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His novelette "Finisterra" won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction of 2007, and was a finalist for the 2008 Hugo Award. David's fiction and poetry have been published in Polyphony, Say. . ., Rabid Transit, Flytrap, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Asimov's, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, as well as on Strange Horizons. He co-edited All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories with Jay Lake and the World Fantasy Award-nominated Twenty Epics with Susan Marie Groppi.
When he is not writing or editing, David collects unnecessary educational qualifications and works to pay off his airline tickets. David is a graduate of the American School in Japan, Oakes College (UC Santa Cruz), Lincoln College (Oxford), and the Viable Paradise writing workshop.
His favorite color is blue and his favorite technological singularity is non-smooth and diffeomorphism invariant.
Richard Parks lives in Mississippi with his wife and a varying number of cats. He collects Japanese woodblock prints but otherwise has no hobbies since he discovered that they all require time. His fiction has appeared in Asimov's, Realms of Fantasy, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Fantasy Magazine, Weird Tales, and numerous anthologies, including Year's Best Fantasy and Fantasy: The Best of the Year. His first story collection, The Ogre's Wife, was a World Fantasy Award finalist. His first novel, The Long Look, is coming out in 2008 from Five Star Publishing.
Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He has lived in Cornwall, Scotland, and—since 1991—the Netherlands, where he spent twelve years working as a scientist for the European Space Agency. He became a full-time writer in 2004, and recently married his long-time partner, Josette. Reynolds has been publishing short fiction since his first sale to Interzone in 1990. Since 2000 he has published eight novels: the "Inhibitor" trilogy, British Science Fiction Association Award winner Chasm City, Century Rain, Pushing Ice, and The Prefect. His most recent novel is House of Suns. His short fiction has been collected in Zima Blue and Other Stories and Galactic North. In his spare time he rides horses.
Ken Scholes's quirky, speculative short fiction has been showing up over the last eight years in publications like Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, Clarkesworld Magazine, Best New Fantasy 2, Polyphony 6 and L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXI. His five-book series, "The Psalms of Isaak," is forthcoming from Tor Books with the first volume, Lamentation, debuting in February 2009 and the second volume, Canticle, following in October 2009. His first short story collection, Long Walks, Last Flights and Other Journeys, is forthcoming from Fairwood Press in November 2008.
Ken is a 2004 winner of the Writers of the Future contest and a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He has a degree in History from Western Washington University. Ken lives near Portland, Oregon, with his amazing wonder-wife Jen West Scholes, two suspicious-looking cats, and more books than you would ever want to help him move.
Karl Schroeder was born into a Mennonite community in Manitoba, Canada, in 1962. He started writing at age fourteen, following in the footsteps of A. E. van Vogt, who came from the same Mennonite community. He moved to Toronto in 1986, and became a founding member of SF Canada (he was president from 1996–97). He sold early stories to Canadian magazines, and his first novel, The Claus Effect (with David Nickle) appeared in 1997. His first solo novel, Ventus, was published in 2000, and was followed by Permanence and Lady of Mazes. His most recent work is the "Virga" series of science fiction novels (Sun of Suns, Queen of Candesce, and Pirate Sun). He also collaborated with Cory Doctorow on The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Science Fiction. Schroeder lives in East Toronto with his wife and daughter.
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