Ron Guyatt (ronguyatt.com)
Ron Guyatt is a self-taught artist and professionally-taught graphic designer from Toronto Canada. He attended George Brown College for Design Foundation where he completed with Honors and then followed with his three-year diploma in graphic design at George Brown College.
Inspired by Art Deco, film and science fiction he loves to design posters & create illustrations. His work as been featured in magazines such as Games TM, Level, and Playstation Magazine and worked with clients like EA, Digital Devolver and Bioware.
His Forever cover art is available for purchase as part of his space poster series at: fabledcreative.bigcartel.com/category/space-posters
Ian McDonald (twitter.com/iannmcdonald)
British author Ian McDonald won the Locus “Best First Novel” Award for his novel Desolation Road in 1989. He won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1992 for his novel King of Morning, Queen of Day. His other books include the novels Out On Blue Six, Hearts, Hands and Voices, Terminal Cafe, Sacrifice of Fools, Evolution’s Shore, Kirinya, Ares Express, Cyberabad, and Brasyl, as well as three collections of his short fiction, Empire Dreams, Speaking In Tongues, and Cyberabad Days. His novel, River of Gods, was a finalist for both the Hugo Award and the Arthur C. Clarke award in 2005, and a novella drawn from it, “The Little Goddess,” was a finalist for the Hugo and the Nebula. He won a Hugo Award in 2007 for his novelette “The Djinn’s Wife,” won the Theodore Sturgeon Award for his story “Tendeleo’s Story,” and in 2011 won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for his novel The Dervish House. His most recent book is Luna: New Moon.
Jamie Barras
Jamie Barras is a London-based academic who investigates fake drugs masquerading as the genuine article; and masquerades are a frequent subject of his fiction, which has appeared in magazines in the UK and US.
Aliette de Bodard (aliettedebodard.com)
Aliette de Bodard lives and writes in Paris, where she has a day job as a System Engineer. In her spare time, she writes fiction: her Xuya series of Asian-dominated SF have won her two Nebula Awards, a Locus Award and a British Science Fiction Association Award. Her novel House of Shattered Wings—featuring Fallen angels, Vietnamese immortals and magical influence wars in a post-apocalyptic Paris—was published earlier this year.