by Rich Horton
In addition to stories and novels he has written numerous teleplays and screenplays, including the animated versions of The Lord of the Rings and The Last Unicorn, plus the fan-favorite “Sarek” episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. He is also a gifted poet, lyricist, and singer/songwriter. Fans of Peter’s work are about to be very happy, because there are lots of new projects and reissues in the pipeline: new books, new stories, new essays, even his first CD of recorded songs!
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MICHAEL CANFIELD’s first dozen stories have appeared online as well as in such publications as Realms of Fantasy and Borderlands 5. In 1999 he attended the Clarion Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writing Workshop in East Lansing, Michigan under the directorship and guidance of Lister Matheson. Mike lives in Seattle and maintains his blog (including links to free stories) at michaelcanfield.net.
RICHARD PARKS’s stories have appeared in such places as Asimov’s Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, as well as anthologies Not of Woman Born, Robert Bloch’s Psychos and Year’s Best Fantasy, among others. His novella Hereafter and After will appear as a limited edition in late 2006. His first story collection, The Ogre’s Wife was nominated for the World Fantasy Award. His second collection, Worshipping Small Gods, is due out from Prime Books in 2006.
STEVE RASNIC TEM has sold over two hundred short stories to date to publications as diverse as The Saint Mystery Magazine, Twilight Zone Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror, and many more. Some have been collected in the volumes City Fishing and The Far Side of the Lake. He’s been awarded the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the World Fantasy Award for his short fiction. His novels include Excavation and The Book of Days. He has illustrated his own work for Wormhole Books, the Imagination Box CD, and the short animated film “The Swimmer.” He is married to the writer Melanie Tem. They live in Denver, a short distance from their four children and three granddaughters.
HOLLY PHILLIPS is one of the most distinguished new writers in fantasy and science fiction. Her first collection, In the Palace of Repose, appeared to great acclaim in 2005, and her first novel, The Burning Girl, appeared in 2006. She lives in Canada, where she hikes and enjoys the Great North when not writing.
MATTHEW HUGHES writes science-fantasy. He has published three science fiction novels (Fools Errant,. Fool Me Twice and Black Brillion) and one collection (The Gist Hunter & Other Stories). His fiction has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Interzone and Postscripts. His next novel will be Majestrum.
“The Gist Hunter” is the last of six Hapthorn stories that ran in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. It leads up to the events that will be recounted in Majestrum. Hughes lives in a small town on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. His web page is at http://www.archonate.com.
RICH HORTON is a software engineer in St. Louis. He is a contributing editor to Locus, for which he does short fiction reviews and occasional book reviews; and to Black Gate, for which he does a continuing series of essays about the history of science fiction. He also contributes book reviews to Fantasy Magazine and to many other publications.”
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
“Pip and the Fairies” by Theodora Goss. Copyright © 2005 by Theodora Goss. First published in Strange Horizons. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Comber” by Gene Wolfe. Copyright © 2005 by Gene Wolfe. First published in Postscripts, Spring 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Three Urban Folk Tales” by Eric Schaller. Copyright © 2005 by Theodora Goss. First published in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 16. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Wax” by Elizabeth Bear. Copyright © 2005 by Elizabeth Bear. First published in Interzone, December 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Emperor of Gondwanaland” by Paul Di Filippo. Copyright © 2005 by Paul di Filippo. First published in Interzone, January-February 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“CommComm” by George Saunders. Copyright © 2005 by George Saunders. First published in The New Yorker. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Five Ways Jane Austen Never Died” by Samantha Henderson. Copyright © 2005 by Samantha Henderson. First published in Fortean Bureau. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Fancy Bread” by Gregory Feeley. Copyright © 2005 by Gregory Feeley. First published in TEL: Stories. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Sunbird” by Neil Gaiman. Copyright © 2005 by Neil Gaiman. First published in Noisy Outlaws. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Secret of Broken Tickers” by Joe Murphy. Copyright © 2005 by Joe Murphy. First published in Realms of Fantasy, August 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“On the Blindside” by Sonya Taaffe. Copyright © 2005 by Sonya Taaffe. First published in Flytrap, May 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Jane” by Marc Laidlaw. Copyright © 2005 by Marc Laidlaw. First published in Sci Fiction, February 16, 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Is There Life After Rehab?” by Pat Cadigan. Copyright © 2005 by Pat Cadigan. First published in Sci Fiction, August 17, 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Two Hearts” by Peter Beagle. Copyright © 2005 by Peter Beagle. First published in F&SF, March 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Super-Villains” by Michael Canfield. Copyright © 2005 by Michael Canfield. First published in Son and Foe 1. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Empty Places” by Richard Parks. Copyright © 2005 by Richard Parks. First published in Realms of Fantasy, December 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Invisible” by Steve Rasnic Tem. Copyright © 2005 by Steve Rasnic Tem. First published in Sci Fiction, March 2, 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“By the Light of Tomorrow’s Sun” by Holly Phillips. Copyright © 2005 by Holly Phillips. First published in In the Palace of Repose. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Gist Hunter” by Matthew Hughes. Copyright © 2005 by Matthew Hughes. First published in F&SF, June 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author.
