Jihane Noskateb lives with a black cat on a thirteenth floor in Paris, France. Fascinated by ancient history, science fiction, and fantasy, she’s currently and hectically engaged with a PhD and one or two novels. That bigamous situation between past and future leads her to view the present as an overrated thing, whose existence is dubious. Don’t tell her she’s presently published for the very first time. She might well think it’s not real.
Kay Kenyon is the author of a dozen science fiction short stories and novels. Her 2003 novel, The Braided World, like several other of her novels, deals with an alien culture and the dilemmas of cross-cultural contact. Her novel Maximum Ice was nominated for the 2002 Phillip K. Dick Award, and has been translated into French. It is the tale of a ship of gypsies who return to Earth to find it altered, both wonderfully and dreadfully. Kay lives in Wenatchee, Washington, with her husband Thomas and a large, orange tabby named Sumo.
Mike Resnick is the author of more than forty science fiction novels, ten collections, and 150 stories, and has edited more than thirty-five anthologies. He has won four Hugos (and been nominated for twenty-three as a writer and two as an editor), a Nebula (with ten nominations), and awards from all over the globe, including the Prix Tour Eiffel (France), the Hayakawa SF Award (Japan), the Futura Award (Croatia), the Prix Ozone (France), the Fantastyka Award (Poland), the Ignotus Award (Spain), and the Sfinks Award (Poland).
Susan R. Matthews has several novels in print—many concerning the life and hard times of Andrej Koscuisko, who is not a nice man—but has only recently ventured into shorter fiction. She believes that nothing can withstand the awesome power of compassion except, perhaps, people who read Faulkner voluntarily. She and Maggie Nowakowska, her spousal equivalent of nearly twenty-five years, live in Seattle with two young Pomeranians whose worldview as regards potty training is staunchly situational. You can find her website with news, gossip, pictures, and Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor at http://www.sff.net/people/Susan.scribens.
Cory Doctorow (http://www.craphound.com) is the Campbell Award-winning author of the novels Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and Eastern Standard Tribe, and the short story collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More. He is the coeditor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (http://boingboing.net) and works for a civil rights group in San Francisco called the Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org).
Born in 1964, Charles Stross lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he works as a freelance journalist and author; before switching to writing full time he pursued careers as a pharmacist and computer programmer. His most recent novel is Singularity Sky.
Dr. Isaac Szpindel is an award-winning screenwriter, author, producer, electrical engineer, and medical doctor /neurologist. Some of his recently published SF short stories include “Porter’s Progress” in the DAW anthology Space Inc. and the Prix Aurora Award finalist “By Its Cover” in Tales from the Wonder Zone: Explorer. Isaac’s screenwriting credits include the Prix Aurora Award-winning “Underwater Nightmare” and Aurora finalist “Bat’s Life,” both for the hit Warner Bros. TV series Rescue Heroes. He is the story editor and a screenwriter for the television series The Boy, and is cocreator and writer for a TV series currently in development with a national Canadian broadcaster and an Emmy Award-winning production house. Other screenwriting projects include an SF/ fantasy feature film and episodic television for a company based in France. Isaac was executive producer of the award-winning short Hoverboy, lectures often at various educational levels, and is a frequent on-air guest for Canadian Talk Television. For more, visit http:/www.geocities.com/canadian_sf/szpindel
Jay Caselberg is an Australian writer based in London. His short fiction and poetry has appeared in many places around the world, including The Mammoth Book of Future Cops, Interzone, The Third Alternative and others. His novel Wyrmhole, from Roc Books, came out in 2003 and the followup, Metal Sky, is due in 2004. Growing up in Australia, he traveled the world extensively, then moved to London in 1991. His work for major consultancies took him to many countries around the world, and to date he has worked in about fifty-five different countries. He is constantly working on new material and usually has one or two novels in progress at any one time. He also writes as James A. Hartley. You can visit his website at http://www.sff.net/people/jaycaselberg
1 Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra) is a symphonic work by Richard Strauss. It is best know for its opening bars, the famous theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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