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Irene Radford, aka P.R. Frost, aka C.F. Bentley, has been writing stories ever since she figured out what a pencil was for. A member of an endangered species, a native Oregonian who lives in Oregon, she and her husband make their home in Welches, Oregon, where deer, bears, coyotes, hawks, owls, and woodpeckers feed regularly on their back deck. A museum-trained historian, Phyllis Irene has spent many hours prowling pioneer cemeteries, deepening her connections to the past. Raised in a military family, she grew up all over the US and learned early on that books are friends that don’t get left behind with a move. Her interests and reading range from ancient history, to spiritual meditations, to space stations, and a whole lot in between. Her signal corps brother has launched several communications satellites on the Shuttle. Watching those launches got her hooked on the ideal of humans reaching out into the universe.
With several million books in print and New York Times and USA Today’s bestseller lists under her belt, former CPA Patricia Rice is one of romance’s hottest authors. Patricia Rice’s emotionally-charged contemporary and historical romances have won numerous awards, including the RT Book Reviews Reviewers Choice and Career Achievement Awards. Her books have also been honored as Romance Writers of America RITA® finalists in the historical, regency and contemporary categories. A firm believer in happily-ever-after, Patricia Rice is married to her high school sweetheart and has two children. A native of Kentucky and New York, a past resident of North Carolina, she currently resides in California, and now does accounting only for herself.
Madeleine E. Robins been a nanny, an administrator, an actor, a swordswoman, trafficked book production, edited comics, and repaired hurt books. She’s also the author of five Regency romances, the dark urban fantasy The Stone War (a New York Times Notable Book), Daredevil: The Cutting Edge, and three Regency-noir mysteries, Point of Honour, Petty Treason, and The Sleeping Partner, featuring the redoubtable Sarah Tolerance, Agent of Inquiry. Sold for Endless Rue, a gloss on the Rapunzel story set at the medieval medical school of Salerno, was published in 2013 by Forge Books. An unregenerate New Yorker, she now lives in San Francisco.
Deborah J. Ross, as Deborah Wheeler, wrote Jaydium and Northlight, as well as short stories in Asimov’s, F&SF, Sisters of the Night, Star Wars: Tales From Jabba’s Palace, Realms of Fantasy, and almost all the Sword and Sorceress anthologies. Her most recent projects—under her birth name, Ross—include Darkover novels with the late Marion Zimmer Bradley: The Fall of Neskaya, Zandru’s Forge, A Flame in Hali, The Alton Gift, and Hastur Lord, and an original fantasy series, The Seven-Petaled Shield. In between writing, she has lived in France, worked as a medical assistant to a cardiologist, revived an elementary school library, studied Chinese martial arts, Hebrew and yoga, and has been active in the women’s martial arts network and local Quaker community.
A Nebula Award finalist, Dave Smeds is the author of novels, short fiction, comic book scripts, and screenplays. His writing spans several sub-genres of science fiction and fantasy including sword-and-sorcery, hard sf, contemporary fantasy, superhero, martial arts, horror, and erotica. His books include The Sorcery Within, The Schemes of Dragons, X-Men: Law of the Jungle, Piper in the Night, and the collection Embracing the Starlight. Over a hundred stories have appeared in magazines such as Asimov’s SF, Realms of Fantasy, F&SF, Pulphouse, Penthouse Hot Talk, and anthologies such as Full Spectrum 4, Peter S. Beagle’s Immortal Unicorn, Return to Avalon, In the Field of Fire, and a dozen installments of the Sword and Sorceress series.
Judith Tarr hates writing bios of herself. She would rather write historical fantasy or historical novels or epic fantasy or the (rather) odd alternate history, or short stories on just about any subject that catches her fancy. She has been a World Fantasy Award nominee for her Alexander the Great novel, Lord of the Two Lands, and won the Crawford Award for her Hound and the Falcon trilogy. She also writes as Caitlin Brennan (The Mountain’s Call and sequels) and Kathleen Brya (The Serpent and the Rose and sequels). Caitlin published House of the Star, a magical-horse novel from Tor, in Fall 2010. The paperback appeared in November of 2011. When she is not working on her latest novel or story, she is breeding, raising, and training Lipizzan horses on her farm near Tucson, Arizona. Her horses are Space Aliens, her stallion is a Pooka, and they frequently appear in song, story, blog.
Dave Trowbridge wrote high-tech marketing copy for thirty years, which made him an expert in what he calls “pulling stuff out of the cave of the flying monkeys,” an indispensable skill for a science fiction writer. He abandoned corporate writing in 2013 and is currently laboring over the second edition of the space-opera series Exordium with his co-author Sherwood Smith and looking forward to writing more stories in that universe. He lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains with his writer wife and fellow BVC member, Deborah J. Ross, two cats, and a German Shepherd Dog-sized hole in the fabric of spacetime, which he trusts will be filled at some point. When not writing, he may be found wrangling vegetables—both domesticated and feral—in the garden.
The author of numerous short stories and novels, Jill Zeller lives near Seattle, Washington with her patient and adoring husband and one self-centered tuxedo cat. Her works explore the boundaries of reality. Some may call it fantasy, but there are rarely swords and never elves. More to the point, she prefers to write as if myth, imagination and hallucination were as real as the chair she is sitting on as she writes this. Maybe it is because she was raised as a Christian Scientist.
Sarah Zettel is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author and one of the founding members of Book View Café. She has written fourteen novels and a roughly equal number of short stories over the past ten years in addition to practicing tai chi, learning to fiddle, marrying a rocket scientist and raising a rapidly growing son. She is very tired right now.
Copyright & Credits
Across the Spectrum
Book View Café’s 5th Anniversary Celebration
Pati Nagle and Deborah J. Ross, Editors
Copyright © 2013 by Book View Café Publishing Cooperative
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portion thereof, in any form.
ISBN: 978-1-61138-337-9
November 5, 2013
Published by Book View Café Publishing Cooperative
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Cover Design: Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, based on “Vitruvian Man” by Leonardo Da Vinci
Proofreader: Chaz Brenchley
Interior Design: Vonda N. McIntyre
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Any real persons or places mentioned are used in a fictional manner.
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Copyright Acknowledgments
“Shapeshifter Finals,” copyright © 1995 by Jeffrey A. Carver, first appeared in Warriors of Blood and Dream, edited by Roger Zelazny, Avon Books.
“Feef’s House,” copyright © 2003 by Doranna Durgin, first appeared in Space, Inc., edited by Julie E. Czerneda, DAW.
“Ukaliq and the Great Hunt,” copyright © 2002 by David D. Levine, first appeared in Phobos Award anthology, Hitting the Skids in Pixeltown, edited by Orson Scott Card, Keith Olexa, and Christian O’Toole, Phobos Books (September 2003).
“Parsley, Space, Rosemary, and Time,” copyright © 1992 by Katharine Kerr, first appeared in Aladdin: Master of the Lamp, edited by Mike Resnick, DAW.
“Monsoon Day,” copyright © 2005 by Mary Anne Mohanraj, previously appeared in Bodies in Motion, HarperCollins.
“The Fiddler’s Price,” copyright © 1991 by Sarah Zettel, first appeared in The Tome, issue 7.
“Solstice,” copyright © 1997 by Jennifer Stevenson, first appeared in The Horns Of Elfland, edited by Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, and Donald G. Keller, ROC
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“Cuckoo,” copyright © 1984 by Madeleine E. Robins, first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
“Nine White Horses,” copyright © 2013 by Judith Tarr, first appeared in the Book View Café blog.
“Handing on the Goggles,” copyright © 2013 by Brenda W. Clough.
“Litany of Hope,” copyright © 2012 by Irene Radford, first appeared in Buzzy Multimedia Magazine, edited by Laura Anne Gilman (January 2012).
“By the Sea,” copyright © 2009 by Shannon Page, first appeared in Grants Pass, edited by Jennifer Brozek and Amanda Pillar, Morrigan.
“Climbing to the Moon,” copyright © 1992 by Ursula K. Le Guin, first appeared in American Short Fiction.
“The Cornfield,” copyright © 2010 by P. G. Nagle, first appeared in Coyote Ugly and Other Tales by Pati Nagle, Evennight Books/Book View Café.
“Ducks,” copyright © 2005 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, First appeared in Wings of Morning by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Yard Dog Press.
“Short Timer,” copyright © 1994 by Dave Smeds, first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (December 1994).
“Terminal,” copyright © 2007 by Chaz Brenchley, first appeared in DisLocations, edited by Ian Whates, Newcon Press.
“Suraki,” copyright © 1995 by Dave Trowbridge, first appeared in A Starfarer's Dozen, edited by Michael Stearns, Jane Yolen Books, Harcourt Brace & Company.
“The Honor of the Ferrocarril,” copyright © 2013 by Sylvia Kelso, first appeared in Gears and Levers 3, edited by Phyllis Irene Radford, Skywarrior Books.
“Transfusion,” copyright © 1995 by Deborah J. Ross, first appeared in Realms of Fantasy (August 1995).
“Survival Skills,” copyright © 1998 by Nancy Jane Moore, first appeared in Aikido Today Magazine (June/July 1998).
“Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand,” copyright © 1973 by Vonda N. McIntyre, previously appeared in Analog SF/Fact (October 1973), Nebula Award Stories 9, edited by Kate Wilhelm, Bantam (1978), and Best SF of the Year #3, edited by Terry Carr, Ballantine (1974).
“The Deaths of Christopher Marlowe,” copyright © 2008 by Marie Brennan, first appeared in Paradox #12 (April 2008).
“Lady Invisible,” copyright © 2010 by Patricia Rice, first appeared in Mammoth Book of Regency Romance edited by Trisha Telep, Constable & Robinson Ltd, London.
“Mom and Dad at the Home Front,” copyright © 2000 by Sherwood Smith, first appeared in Realms of Fantasy (August 2000); reprinted in Year’s Best Fantasy, Harper Eos, (2000) and in New Magics, Tor (2004).
“Perfect Stranger,” copyright © 2000 by Amy Sterling Casil, first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (September 2006).
“The Alzheimer’s Book Club,” copyright © 2008 by Jill Zeller, first appeared in Bound for Evil, Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad, edited by Tom English, Dead Letter Press.
“Betrayal,” copyright © 2013 by Mindy Klasky.
“Art & Science” copyright © 2013 by Sue Lange.
“Genuine Old Master,” copyright © 1977 by Marion Zimmer Bradley, first appeared in Galileo Magazine #5 (October 1977).
About Book View Café
Book View Café (BVC) is a an author-owned cooperative of over forty professional writers, publishing in a variety of genres including fantasy, romance, mystery, and science fiction.
In 2008, BVC launched a website, www.bookviewcafe.com, initially offering free fiction and gradually moving to selling ebooks of members’ backlist titles, then original titles. BVC’s ebooks are DRM-free and are distributed around the world. BVC returns 95% of the profit on each book directly to the author. The cooperative has gained a reputation for producing high-quality ebooks, and is now moving into print editions.
BVC authors include New York Times and USA Today bestsellers; Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K. Dick Award winners; World Fantasy and Rita Award nominees; and winners and nominees of many other publishing awards.
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