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Introduction, by Brenda W. Clough and
Phyllis Irene Radford. Copyright © 2016 Brenda W. Clough and
Phyllis Irene Radford

Among Friends, by Deborah J. Ross. Copyright © 2013 Deborah J. Ross. First published in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction,
March/April 2013

Until We Are All Free, by Nancy Jane Moore. Copyright © Nancy Jane Moore

Mr. Lincoln’s Elephant, by Brenda W. Clough. Copyright © 2016 Brenda W. Clough

The Crater, by Pati Nagle. Copyright © 2016 Pati Nagle

A Need for Expanded Abilities of a Discreet Nature, by Patricia Burroughs. Copyright © 2016 Patricia Burroughs

Secundus, by Brenda W. Clough. Copyright © Brenda W. Clough. First published in
Mad Science Café,
edited by Deborah J.
Ross and Phyllis Irene Radford. Book View Café, 2013

Weapon of Mass Destruction, by
Irene Radford. Copyright © 2014 Phyllis
Irene Radford. First published in
Steampunk
Voyages,
by Irene Radford. Book View Café, 2014

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Patricia Burroughs
had
insomnia throughout her entire teen years. She read most of the night, and slept
during class in the middle of the day. Unless, of course, she was hiding a
novel inside a physics textbook. Who needed physics? She believed in magic.

Eventually she turned her propensity for scheming and
daydreaming into storytelling, which manifested in award-winning screenplays (Nicholl
Screenwriting Fellowship awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts &
Sciences in 2001) and books. Her recent
This
Crumbling Pageant
, Volume One of
The Fury Triad
, was awarded the Golden
Quill for Best Romantic Fantasy in 2015.
The
Dead Shall Live
, Volume Two, will be out in late 2016.

You know, she still can’t sleep at night, but now it’s her
own characters keeping her awake. She hopes they do the same thing to you!

Brenda W. Clough
spent
much of her childhood overseas, courtesy of the U.S. government. Her first
fantasy novel,
The Crystal Crown,
was published by DAW in 1984. She has
also written
The Dragon of Mishbil
(1985),
The Realm Beneath
(1986),
and
The Name of the Sun
(1988). Her children’s novel,
An Impossumble
Summer
(1992), is set in her own house in Virginia, where she lives in a
cottage at the edge of a forest.

Her latest novels from Book View Cafe include
Revise the World
(2009),
Speak to Our Desires
and
How Like a God
. Tor Books published the sequel,
Doors of Death and Life
, in May 2000.

Nancy Jane Moore
’s
science fiction novel
The Weave
came
out in 2015 from Aqueduct Press. Her Book View Café publications include
Ardent Forest
,
Flashes of Illumination
, and
Walking
Contradiction and Other Futures
. She lives in Oakland, California.

Pati Nagle
has written over twenty novels and two
collections of short fiction. Her stories of Marie Laveau have graced
The
Shadow Conspiracy
and
The Shadow Conspiracy II
, and her fiction has
also appeared in
Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science
Fiction, Cricket, Cicada,
and various anthologies. She is a founding member
of Book View Café.

Irene Radford
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, woodpeckers, and cougars feed regularly on their back deck.

A museum-trained historian, 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.

Mostly Irene writes fantasy and historical fantasy including
the best-selling Dragon Nimbus Series. In other lifetimes she writes urban
fantasy as P.R. Frost or Phyllis Ames, and space opera as C.F. Bentley. Later
this year she ventures into Steampunk as someone else.

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Deborah J. Ross
is an award-nominated writer and editor of
fantasy and science fiction. She served as Secretary to the Science Fiction
Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and is currently on the Board of Directors of
Book View Cafe. Her novels include Lambda Literary Award Finalist
Collaborators
(as Deborah Wheeler),
The Seven-Petaled Shield
trilogy,
Jaydium
, and
Northlight
. In addition, she has continued the “Darkover” series
created by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley with
The Fall of Neskaya, Zandru’s Forge
,
A Flame in Hali
,
The Alton
Gift
,
Hastur Lord
,
The Children of Kings
, and three more
novels under contract. Her short fiction has appeared in
Asimov’s
,
F & SF
,
Realms of Fantasy
,
Star Wars: Tales from Jabba’s Palace
,
Sisters of the Night
, and
Sword
& Sorceress
. She’s edited a number of anthologies, including
Lace and Blade
,
The Feathered Edge: Tales of Magic, Love, and Daring
,
Beyond Grimm: Tales Newly Twisted
,
Mad
Science Cafe
,
Across the Spectrum
,
Stars of Darkover
, and
Gifts of Darkover
. When she’s not
writing, she knits for charity, plays classical piano, and studies yoga, and
dog training.

The Shadow Conspiracy
edited by Phyllis Irene Radford and
Laura Anne Gilman

In the Year Without a Summer, a group of mad geniuses descended on Geneva. In an attempt to save the body and mind of George Gordon, Lord Byron, they performed a dreadful and forbidden experiment that forever changed history—and tore their own lives apart.

Years later, Byron’s daughter Ada has inherited her father’s genius. With Charles Babbage, inventor of the analytical engine, she invents the “automatic sciences,” allowing the creation of machines that mimic human action, and even human thought. Once again, history has changed. Mechanical spiders perform menial tasks. Intelligent locomotives keep their own time schedules. Massive dirigibles and flying automata have flung the Empire—and piracy—into the sky itself.

But even a golden age casts a long shadow, and silent forces are moving in the darkness. Whispers of a conspiracy to destroy the Empire are beginning to surface. The fate of the Geneva experiment and the mad geniuses that created it remains unknown.

The Shadow Conspiracy II
edited by Phyllis Irene Radford and
Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

The soul of the poet who would be king still seeks immortality — but will it find a home? And will that home be flesh or steel?

Revisit the shared Victorian world of transferable souls and intelligent machines introduced in
The Shadow Conspiracy.
Judith Tarr’s irrepressible Emma Rigby prances through a new adventure with automata. Nancy Jane Moore brings us more missions for the mysterious warrior woman, Jane Freemantle. Chris Dolley brings to life a wonderful parody reminiscent of P.G. Wodehouse.

Then there are the historical characters who keep popping into our works of fiction. Amy Sterling Casil introduces us to insane artist Richard Dadd and makes us redefine madness. Irene Radford visits Dr. John McLaughlin and his wife Marguerite in the Oregon Country with some questions about when no government is too much government. Pati Nagle gives us some more insight into the life of mystical Marie LaVeau. And always, Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, hovers in the background along with her father, Lord Byron.

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