ABOUT THE AUTHORS

 

Stephen Baxter (www.stephen-baxter.com) is one of the most important science fiction writers to emerge from Britain in the past thirty years. His Xeelee sequence of novels and short stories is arguably the most significant work of future history in modern science fiction. He is the author of more than fifty books and over a hundred short stories. His most recent books are The Massacre of Mankind, an official sequel to H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, and a duology, Xeelee: Vengeance and Xeelee: Redemption.

 

Naomi Kritzer (www.naomikritzer.com) is the author of six novels and three collections of short fiction. Her first story appeared in 1999 and was quickly followed by the Dead Rivers and Eliana’s Song trilogies for Bantam, and the Seastead series of short stories for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Her 2015 short story “Cat Pictures Please” published in Clarkesworld was a Locus Award and Hugo Award winner and was nominated for a Nebula Award. Her most recent book is a collection, Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories. She has lived in London and Nepal, and as of 2016, she lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and blogs on local elections.

 

Paul McAuley (unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com) worked as a research biologist and university lecturer before becoming a full-time writer. He is the author of more than twenty novels, several collections of short stories, a Doctor Who novella, and a BFI Film Classic monograph on Terry Gilliam’s film Brazil. His fiction has won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Sidewise Award, the British Fantasy Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His latest novel, Austral, was published by Gollancz in 2017; and he is currently working on a new novel, tentatively scheduled for 2019.

 

Seanan McGuire (www.seananmcguire.com) writes things. It is difficult to make her stop. Her first book was published in 2009; since then, she has released more than thirty more, spanning multiple genres, all through traditional publishing channels. We’re not entirely sure she sleeps. We’re also not entirely sure she isn’t a living channel for the corn, green grow its leaves, shallow grow its roots. When not writing, she enjoys travel, spending time with her cats, and watching more horror movies than is strictly healthy for any living thing. Keep up with her online, or follow her on Twitter at @seananmcguire, where she posts many, many pictures of the aforementioned cats. Seanan would like to talk to you about the X-Men, Disney Parks, and terrifying parasites. She can be bribed with Diet Dr. Pepper to stop.

 

Linda Nagata (www.mythicisland.com) is a Nebula- and Locus-award-winning writer, best known for her high-tech science fiction novels, including the Red trilogy, a series of near-future military thrillers. The first book in the trilogy, The Red: First Light, was a Nebula and John W. Campbell Memorial-award finalist, and named as a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2015. Her newest novel is the very near-future thriller, The Last Good Man. Linda’s short fiction has appeared in several best-of-the-year anthologies. Her story “Nahiku West” was a runner-up for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. Much of her recent short fiction is available to read in the collection Light and Shadow. Linda has lived most of her life in Hawaii, where she’s been a writer, a mom, a programmer of database-driven websites, and an independent publisher. She lives with her husband in their long-time home on the island of Maui.

 

Hannu Rajaniemi was born in Finland. At the age of eight he approached the European Space Agency with a fusion-powered spaceship design, which was received with a polite “thank you” note. He studied mathematics and theoretical physics at University of Oulu and Cambridge and holds a PhD in string theory from the University of Edinburgh. He co-founded a mathematics consultancy whose clients included UK Ministry of Defence—and the European Space Agency. He is the author of four novels including The Quantum Thief and the forthcoming Summerland (June 2018), and Invisible Planets: Collected Fiction, a short story collection. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, neuroscientist Zuzana Krejciova-Rajaniemi. He is a co-founder of HelixNano, a synthetic biology startup that graduated from Y Combinator in 2017.

 

Alastair Reynolds (www.alastairreynolds.com) was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He has lived in Cornwall, Scotland, the Netherlands, where he spent twelve years working as a scientist for the European Space Agency, before returning to Wales in 2008 where he lives with his wife Josette. Reynolds has been publishing short fiction since his first sale to Interzone in 1990. Since 2000 he has published sixteen novels: the Inhibitor trilogy, British Science Fiction Association Award winner Chasm City, Century Rain, Pushing Ice, The Prefect, House of Suns, Terminal World, the Poseidon’s Children series, Doctor Who novel The Harvest of Time, The Medusa Chronicles (with Stephen Baxter), and Revenger. His short fiction has been collected in Zima Blue and Other Stories, Galactic North, Deep Navigation, and Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds. Coming up is a new novel, Elysium Fire. In his spare time, he rides horses.

 

Justina Robson (www.justinarobson.co.uk) was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1968. After completing school she dropped out of Art College, then studied philosophy and linguistics at York University. She sold her first novel in 1999, which also won the 2000 amazon.co.uk Writers’ Bursary Award. She has been a student (1992) and a teacher (2002, 2006) at The Arvon Foundation in the UK (a centre for the development and promotion of all kinds of creative writing). Her eleven books have been variously shortlisted for most of the major genre awards, including her latest novel Glorious Angels. A collection of her short fiction, Heliotrope, was published in 2012. Her novels and stories range widely over SF and fantasy, often in combination and often featuring AIs and machines who aren’t exactly what they seem. She is also the proud author of The Covenant of Primus (2013)—the Hasbro-authorised history and ‘bible’ of The Transformers. She lives in t’North of England with her partner, three children, a cat and a dog.

 

Kelly Robson’s (www.kellyrobson.com) book Gods, Monsters and the Lucky Peach is newly out from Tor.com Publishing. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Tor.com, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and multiple anthologies. In 2017, she was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her novella “Waters of Versailles” won the 2016 Aurora Award and was a finalist for both the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She has also been a finalist for the Sturgeon and Sunburst awards, and her stories have been included in numerous year’s best anthologies. She is a regular contributor to the Another Word column at Clarkesworld. Kelly grew up in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains and competed in rodeos as a teenager. From 2008 to 2012, she was the wine columnist for Chatelaine, Canada’s largest women’s magazine. After many years in Vancouver, she and her wife, fellow SF writer A.M. Dellamonica, now live in Toronto.

 

New York Times bestseller and two-time Hugo winner Kristine Kathryn Rusch (www.kristinekathrynrusch.com) gets lost in large projects sometimes. WMG Publishing just released a gigantic ebook of her eight-volume Anniversary Day saga. She’s currently finishing a large group of novels in her Diving universe. Some parts of the story have escaped and found their way as novellas in Asimov’s (2018 issues January/February, March/April, August/September). She finds time to write a blog on the publishing business every week on her website, kriswrites.com. She also puts up a free short story there every Monday.

 

Lavie Tidhar (lavietidhar.wordpress.com) is the author of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winning and Premio Roma nominee A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), the World Fantasy Award winning Osama (2011) and of the critically acclaimed and Seiun Award nominated The Violent Century (2013). His latest novel is the Campbell Award winning and Locus and Clarke Award nominated Central Station (2016). He is the author of many other novels, novellas and short stories.

 

Peter Watts (www.rifters.com) is a former marine biologist known for the novels Starfish, Blindsight, and a bunch of others that people don’t seem to like quite as much. Also for managing to retell the story of John Carpenter’s “The Thing” without getting sued. Also for having certain issues with authority figures. While he has enjoyed moderate success as a midlist author (available in twenty languages, winner of awards ranging from science-fictional to documentary to academic, occasional ill-fated video-game gigs), he has recently put all that behind him—choosing instead to collaborate on a black metal science opera about sending marbled lungfish to Mars, funded by the Norwegian government (the opera, not the lungfish). So far, it pays better.

 

Fran Wilde’s (franwilde.net) novels and short stories have been nominated for three Nebula awards and a Hugo, and include her Andre Norton- and Compton-Crook-winning debut novel, Updraft; its sequels, Cloudbound and Horizon; and the novelette The Jewel and Her Lapidary. Her short stories have appeared in Asimov’s,Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer,Nature, and the 2017 Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror. She writes for publications including The Washington Post,Tor.com, Clarkesworld,iO9.com, and GeekMom.com.

 

Nick Wolven’s (www.nickthewolven.com) science fiction has been published by Wired, Asimov’s, F&SF, Clarkesworld, and many other publications. His work often examines the unexpected social costs of rapid technological change. He lives in New York City.