About Gardner Dozois
Gardner Dozois, one of the most acclaimed editors in science fiction, has won the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor fifteen times, as well as the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award. He was the editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine for twenty years, is the editor of the Year’s Best Science Fiction anthologies, and is coeditor of the Warriors anthologies, Songs of the Dying Earth, and many others. As a writer, Dozois twice won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
About Jonathan Strahan
Jonathan Strahan is
the editor of more than forty books, including the Locus and Aurealis award–winning
anthologies The Starry Rift,
Life on Mars, The New Space Opera (Vols. 1 & 2),
the bestselling The Locus Awards (with Charles N. Brown), and
the Eclipse and the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year anthology
series. He won the World Fantasy Award for his editing in 2010 and has been
nominated four times for the Hugo Award for editing. He has also won the
Aurealis Award three times, the Ditmar Award five times, and is a recipient of
the William Atheling Award for his criticism and review. He has been the reviews
editor for Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy
Field since 2002.
About Robert Charles Wilson
Robert Charles Wilson is an Aurora and Philip K. Dick Award winner, a Nebula Award finalist, and the author of twelve published novels; his novel Blind Lake was a New York Times Notable Book. He currently resides in Toronto.
About Peter Watts
Peter Watts is a science fiction writer and a marine-mammal biologist. In addition to a number of accolades for science fiction—including the Aurora, Hugo, and Shirley Jackson Awards—Watts has won minor awards in fields as diverse as marine mammal research and documentary filmmaking. He lives in Toronto.
About Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow is a blogger, journalist, and author science fiction and nonfiction. His writing has won numerous awards, including three Locus Awards, two John W. Campbell Awards, three Prometheus Awards, two Sunburst Awards, the White Pine Award, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award, among others. He has served as Canadian regional director of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is coeditor of the blog Boing Boing, and he was named one of the web’s twenty-five “influencers” by Forbes and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He is a contributing author to Wired magazine, and his writing has been published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Globe and Mail, the Boston Globe, Popular Science, and others.
About Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Kristine Kathryn Rusch is the Hugo and World Fantasy Award–winning former editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. She has written a number of original novels, including the Fey, Diving Universe, and Retrieval Artist series and such tie-ins as Star Wars: The New Rebellion.
About Jay Lake
Jay Lake lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works on numerous writing and editing projects. His short fiction appears regularly in literary and genre markets worldwide. Lake is a winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and a multiple nominee for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.
About Neal Asher
Neal Asher is a science fiction writer whose work has been nominated for both the Philip K. Dick Award and the British Fantasy Society Award. He has published more than twenty books, many set within his Polity universe, including Gridlinked, The Skinner, and Dark Intelligence. He divides his time between Essex and a home in Crete.
About Garth Nix
Garth Nix was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia. After graduating from the University of Canberra, he worked in a bookshop, then as a book publicist, a publisher's sales representative, and an editor. Along the way, he was also a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. Nix left publishing to work as a public relations and marketing consultant for three years before becoming a full-time writer in 1998. He currently lives in a beach suburb of Sydney, with his wife Anna, a publisher.
About Sean Williams
Sean Williams is the #1 New York
Times bestselling author of several novels for adults, as well as the
coauthor of the middle-grade series Troubletwisters with Garth Nix. As a
resident of South Australia—which he reports is a lovely place a long way away
from the rest of the world—Sean has often dreamed of stepping into a booth and
being somewhere else, instantly. This has led to a fascination with the social,
psychological, and moral implications of such technology. When not pondering
such weighty matters, Sean can generally be found eating chocolate (actually,
he eats chocolate while pondering these matters, too).
About Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction writer and Net critic, internationally recognized as a cyberspace theorist who is also considered one of the forefathers of the cyberpunk movement in science fiction. He has won a John W. Campbell Award, two Hugo Awards, and an Arthur C. Clarke Award.
