Jean Rabe is a book hoarder, a museum patron, a student of Egyptian symbolism, and a goldfish fancier. She is also the author of twenty-seven novels and more than five dozen short stories. When she’s not writing or editing, she delights in tossing tennis balls and tugging on old socks with her three dogs. Visit her at www.jeanrabe.com.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch is a bestselling, award-winning author who has written under a variety of names in fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and romance. Her latest novel, Diving into the Wreck from Pyr, is based on the award-winning novellas first published in Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine.
Robert J. (Bob) Serling is Rod Serling’s older brother and a prolific author himself, with twenty-five published nonfiction and fiction works, mostly dealing with the airline and aerospace industries. Among his seven novels is the bestselling The President’s Plane Is Missing. Before becoming a full-time freelance author, he was aviation editor of United Press International and at age ninety-two is regarded by his peers as the dean of aviation writers. He served as technical advisor on Rod’s acclaimed TZ episode “Odyssey of Flight 33.”
Rod Serling (1924–1975) worked in the television area for twenty-five years, developing, in addition to the landmark Twilight Zone series, Night Gallery and The Loner, and countless drama anthologies, including Requiem for a Heavyweight and Patterns. During his career he won more Emmy Awards for dramatic writing than anyone in history. He also wrote the screenplay for the very first Planet of the Apes film, which embodied everything Serling was interested in as a writer. He continued to write for television while teaching in Ithaca, New York, until his death in 1975, leaving an indelible imprint on television that would inspire countless future writers and artists.
Susan Slater is the author of six published mysteries—four in the Ben Pecos Indian series, The Pumpkin Seed Massacre, Yellow Lies, Thunderbird, and a novella, A Way to the Manger, and two stand-alones, Flash Flood and Five O’Clock Shadow. Her novel 0 to 60 is women’s fiction and has been optioned for a feature film. Susan lives thirty miles west of Taos and writes full-time.
Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels and hundreds of short stories. Some of his first sales were to the Twilight Zone magazine and its sister publication, Night Cry, in the 1980s. He is best known for his work on Star Trek, Men in Black, and Spider-Man novels, and is currently writing thrillers under another name.
Norman Spinrad is the author of some twenty or so novels, five or six dozen short stories, a classic Star Trek episode, a couple of flop movies, an album’s worth of songs, political columns, film criticism, literary criticism, mini-cookbooks, autobiography, and a bunch of assorted other stuff. The latest to be written is a new and literarily revolutionary novel called Welcome to Your Dream-time, in which you, the reader, are the viewpoint character, and sections of which have been published in a weird assortment of magazines as free standing short stories. The latest to be published is He Walked Among Us, a novel so far ahead of itself that it had to wait until it had become something of the fave rave of a radical viral Internet distribution experiment before any traditional publisher would bring it out in paper.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Carol Serling has been involved with the writing career of her husband from its very inception, and all through the Twilight Zone years she was his first reader and toughest critic. Since her husband’s death in 1975, Carol has maintained a self-contained industry working with the literary and cinematic legacy that Rod left behind . . . the latest work being this anthology written in the spirit of the Zone.
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