Keith Brooke published his first novel, Keepers of the Peace in 1990, and has alternatively worked as a full time writer, editor and teacher since that time. In 2010, he earned his PhD from the University of Essex, where he teaches creative writing at the graduate and undergraduate levels. In 1997, he founded the Infinity Plus website, which was relaunched in 2010 as an ebook imprint. His next novels, Expatria and Expatria Incorporated were published in 1991 and 1992, and a fourth, Lord of Stone, came in 2001, marking a resurgence in novels: Genetopia was published in 2006, The Accord in 2009, and The Unlikely World of Faraway Frankie in 2010. His latest, alt.human (Harmony in the US), was published in 2012, and was shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award.
Joe Haldeman was drafted during the Vietnam War, serving between 1967-69 in the Central Highlands of Vietnam as a combat engineer with the 4th Division (1/22nd Airmobile Bn.) where he earned the Purple Heart and other standard medals. Upon returning to the United States, he turned to writing, and his first novel, War Year, was published in 1972. His second novel, The Forever War, was published in 1974, and would go on to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel, the Locus Award for Best Novel and the Ditmar Award for International SF. Since that time, he has published 18 novels and numerous short stories, earning the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Nebula Award for Best Novella, Best Short Story (Graves) and Best Novel (Camouflage), the Rhysling Award (x3), World Fantasy Award (Graves) and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. He currently teaches creative writing at MIT in Cambridge, MA. In 2010, he was awarded the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.
Jake Kerr’s writing career began in 2010 after a long career as a music and radio journalist. In 2012, his story The Cold Equations was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novelette, the StorySouth Million Writers Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His stories have been published by Fireside Magazine, io9, Waylines Magazine, Escape Pod, Unidentified Funny Objects and Lightspeed Magazine.
Yoon Ha Lee’s first story was published in 1999 in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and since then, has appeared in Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Electric Velocipede, Lightspeed Magazine, Tor.com and others. Her first collection, Conservation of Shadows, was published earlier this year.
Ken Liu won the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, and has been a finalist for the Hugo, Locus, Theodore Sturgeon and Nebula awards. His fiction has appeared at Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimovs, Analog, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed and Clarkesworld Magazines, among other places. He’s worked as a programmer, lawyer and translator. His translation of the Chinese hard science fiction trilogy,The Three Body Trilogy will be published by Tor sometime in 2014.
T.C. McCarthy’s debut Military SF trilogy The Subterrene War (Germline, Exogene and Chimera) appeared in 2011, and its first entry, Germline, earned the 2012 Compton Crook award, presented for best first novel by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. His short fiction has appeared in Per Contra: The International Journal of the Arts, Literature and Ideas, in Story Quarterly and in Nature. He is also a PhD scientist (Geology) and a Fulbright Fellow.
Linda Nagata is the recipient of the Locus Award for Best First Novel for The Bohr Makerin 1996, and the Nebula Award for Best Novella for Goddesses in 2000, the first digitally published book to recieve the award. Her short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Lightspeed Magazine, and Asimovs, and has released the following novels: The Bohr Maker (1995), Deception Well (1997), 3 Vast (1998), 4 Tech-Heaven (1995)Limit of Vision (2001), Memory (2003), The Dread Hammer (2012), Hepen the Watcher (2012) and The Red: First Light (2013).
Mike Sizemore is the author behind the a television show currently being pitched to Hollywood calledSlingers. Since then, he’s written pilot and feature scripts, as well as an adaptation of Howl’s Moving Castle for the London Stage with Stephen Fry. He’s currently writing a digital series about superheroes called Caper, which is due out in January 2014.
Janine Spendlove is an author and active duty KC-130 pilot in the United States Marine Corps. She is best known for her War of the Seasons (The Human, The Half-blood and the forthcoming The Hunter) and her stories have appeared in Time Traveled Tales, A Hero By Any Other Name and Heroes! anthologies among other locations.
James L. Sutter is the fiction editor for Paizo Publishing, and a co-creator of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game campaign setting. He’s the author of Death’s Heretic, which was a finalist for the Compton Crook Award for best first novel, and was ranked #3 on the list of best Fantasy releases of 2011. He’s currently writing a new novel. Additionally, his short fiction has appeared at Escape Pod, Podcastle and Pseudopod, Starship Sofa, Apex Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and the anthologies Geek Love and Machine of Death.
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