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David Brin is the bestselling Hugo and Nebula Award winning author of such books as Kiln People, Earth and the Campbell Award winning The Postman.

Lou Anders is an editor, author and journalist. He is the editorial director of Prometheus Books’ science fiction imprint Pyr, as well as the anthologies Outside the Box (Wildside Press, 2001), Live Without a Net (Roc, 2003), Projections (MonkeyBrain, December 2004) and FutureShocks (Roc, July 2005). He served as the senior editor for Argosy Magazine’s inaugural issues in 2003–04. In 2000 he served as the executive editor of Bookface.com, and before that he worked as the Los Angeles Liaison for Titan Publishing Group. He is the author of The Making of Star Trek: First Contact (Titan Books, 1996), and has published more than 500 articles in such magazines as Publishers Weekly, The Believer, Dreamwatch, Star Trek Monthly, Star Wars Monthly, Babylon 5 Magazine, Sci Fi Universe, Doctor Who Magazine and Manga Max. His articles and stories have been translated into German, French and Greek, and have appeared online at Believermag.com, SFSite.com, RevolutionSF.com and InfinityPlus.co.uk.

Bruce Bethke works, writes and, when time permits, lives, in the frozen northern reaches of Minnesota. In some circles he is best known for his 1980 short story, “Cyberpunk.” In others, he is better known for his Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel, Headcrash. What very few people in either circle have known until recently is that he actually works in supercomputer software development, and all of his best science fiction gets turned into design specifications for future products. Bethke can be contacted via his website, www.BruceBethke.com.

Jeanne Cavelos began her professional life as an astrophysicist, working in the Astronaut Training Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. After earning her MFA in creative writing, she moved into a career in publishing, becoming a senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell, where she created and launched the Abyss imprint of psychological horror, for which she won the World Fantasy Award, and ran the science fiction/fantasy publishing program. Jeanne left New York to pursue her own writing career. Her books include the best-selling The Passing of the Techno-Mages trilogy (set in the Babylon 5 universe), the highly praised science books The Science of Star Wars and The Science of The X-Files and the anthology The Many Faces of Van Helsing. Her work has twice been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Jeanne is currently at work on a thriller about genetic manipulation, titled Fatal Spiral. Since she loves working with developing writers, Jeanne created and serves as director of Odyssey, an annual six-week summer workshop for writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror held at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. Guest lecturers have included George R. R. Martin, Harlan Ellison, Terry Brooks, Jane Yolen and Dan Simmons. More information about Jeanne is on her website, www.jeannecavelos.com.

John G. Hemry also writes under the name Jack Campbell and is the author of several novels, including the first and so far only legal thriller military SF series (a.k.a. JAG in space), which includes A Just Determination, Burden of Proof, Rule of Evidence and Against All Enemies. His latest space opera is The Lost Fleet: Dauntless (August 2006) under the Jack Campbell pen name. John loves the first Star Wars trilogy but wishes George had stopped there. He wanted to marry a woman like Leia and ended up with one who’s pretty darn close but even better. He’s also the author of the Stark’s War series and numerous short fiction stories, as well as nonfiction articles on topics like interstellar navigation. A retired U.S. Navy officer, he lives in Maryland with his wife “S” and three children.

Tanya Huff lives and writes in rural Ontario, Canada, with her partner Fiona Patton, six and a half cats and an unintentional Chihuahua. Her latest book and the third of the Tony Foster novels, Smoke and Ashes, will be out in hardcover in June 2006.

Nick Mamatas is the author of the Lovecraftian Beat road novel Move Under Ground (Night Shade Books, 2004) and the Marxist Civil War ghost story Northern Gothic (Soft Skull Press, 2001) both of which were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for dark fiction. He's published over 200 articles and essays in the Village Voice, the men's magazine Razor, In These Times, Clamor, Poets & Writers, Silicon Alley Reporter, Artbytes, the UK Guardian, five Disinformation Books anthologies, and many other venues, and over forty short stories and comic strips in magazines including Razor, Strange Horizons, ChiZine, Polyphony and others. Under My Roof: A Novel of Neighborhood Nuclear Superiority (Soft Skull Press) will be released in late 2006.

Ken Wharton is a physics professor at San Jose State University. He is also the author of the science fiction novel Divine Intervention, along with a handful of short stories. For his fiction, Ken has been a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, the Philip K. Dick Award and the Nebula Award.

John C. Wright is a retired attorney, newspaperman and newspaper editor, who was only once on the lam and forced to hide from the police who did not admire his newspaper. In 1984 he graduated from St. John's College in Annapolis, home of the "Great Books" program. In 1987 he graduated from the College and William and Mary's Law School (going from the third oldest to the second oldest school in continuous use in the United States), and was admitted to the practice of law in three jurisdictions (New York, May 1989; Maryland, December 1990; DC, January 1994). His law practice was unsuccessful enough to drive him into bankruptcy soon thereafter. His stint as a newspaperman for the St. Mary's Today was more rewarding spiritually, but, alas, also a failure financially. He presently works (successfully) as a writer in Virginia, where he lives in fairy-tale-like happiness with his wife, the authoress L. Jagi Lamplighter and their three children: Orville, Wilbur and Just Wright.

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Matthew Woodring Stover is best known for his critically acclaimed dark fantasies Heroes Die and Blade of Tyshalle and is also the controversial author of Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Traitor and Star Wars: Shatterpoint. He was selected to pen the novelization of the 3^rd Episode in the saga, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.

Bruce Bethke works, writes and, when time permits, lives, in the frozen northern reaches of Minnesota. In some circles he is best known for his 1980 short story, “Cyberpunk.” In others, he is better known for his Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel, Headcrash. What very few people in either circle have known until recently is that he actually works in supercomputer software development, and all of his best science fiction gets turned into design specifications for future products.

Don DeBrandt has been accused of authoring The Quicksilver Screen, Steeldriver, Timberjak, V.I. and the Angel novel Shakedown, as well as writing several books under the pseudonym Donn Cortez: The Closer, a thriller, The Man Burns Tonight, a mystery set at Burning Man, and the CSI:Miami novels Cult Following, Riptide, and the upcoming two-part Harm For the Holidays. He does not deny these charges.

Keith R. A. DeCandido has written for practically every media universe except for Star Wars. Look for the following fiction of his in 2006: the World of Warcraft novel Cycle of Hatred; the Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel Blackout; the Starcraft: Ghost novel Nova; and short stories in the anthologies Furry Fantastic, Hear Them Roar, Age of War: A Classic BattleTech Anthology, and 44 Clowns: 11 Stories of the 4 Clowns of the Apocalypse. His other Smart Pop ramblings have appeared in Finding Serenity, The Unauthorized X-Men, The Boy from Krypton, and King Kong is Back! His official Web site is at DeCandido.net.

Richard Garfinkle is the author of two science fiction novels: Celestial Matters (which won the 1996 Compton Crook Award for best first novel in science fiction) and All of an Instant. At present he is engaged in the more dubious practice of writing non-fiction science popularization. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children.

Scott Lynch was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1978 and currently lives in Wisconsin. His first novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora, will be released in June 2006.

Robert A. Metzger is a research scientist and a science fiction and science writer. His research focuses on the technique of molecular beam epitaxy, used to grow epitaxial films for high-speed electronics applications. His short fiction has appeared in most major SF magazines including: Asimov’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and SF Age, while his 2002 novel Picoverse was a Nebula finalist and his most recent novel, CUSP, was released by Ace in 2005. His science writing has appeared in Wired and Analog, and he is a contributing editor to the Science Fiction Writers of American Bulletin.

Laura Resnick is the author of twenty original-fiction novels, including Disappearing Nightly and Doppelgangster. You can find her on the web at www.LauraResnick.com.

Adam Roberts was born in 1965. He has a day job, as professor of nineteenth-century literature at the University of London, and has published a variety of academic criticism; he also writes science fiction novels and parodies. He lives with his wife and daughter about a third of an inch (on a map, that is) to the left of London, UK. 

Kristine Kathryn Rusch is a best-selling novelist who has written a Star Wars novel. She’s also an award-winning editor and writer, with two Hugos and a World Fantasy Award, as well as many other awards in science fiction, fantasy, romance and mystery. Her most recent science fiction novel is Buried Deep. Her next is Paloma, which will appear in October. Under the name

Kris Nelscott, she has just published the sixth book in her critically acclaimed Smokey Dalton series, Days of Rage. Her works have appeared in fourteen countries and thirteen languages.

Bill Spangler has written both fiction and nonfiction based on TV science fiction series. In addition to contributing to BenBella's Farscape Forever!, he has had articles in Xposé and Wizard's Sci-Fi Invasion, and has written original comic book stories based on Alien Nation, Quantum Leap and other shows. Bill and his wife Joyce live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with two ferrets and a dog.

Karen Traviss is a British author whose Wess’har series has received critical acclaim. Her debut novel City of Pearl (2004) was nominated for the Philip K Dick  and Campbell Awards. A former defense correspondent and TV and newspaper journalist, she also writes Star Wars novels and short fiction. She lives in Wiltshire.

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