ReVISIONS (37 page)

 

Julie E. Czerneda, a former biologist, has been writing and editing science texts for almost two decades. A regular presenter on issues in science and science in society, she's also an internationally best-selling and award-winning science fiction author and editor, with eight novels published by DAW Books (including two series: the
Trade Pact Universe
and the
Webshifters
) and her latest, the hard SF trilogy,
Species Imperative
. Her editorial debut for DAW was
Space Inc
. Her short fiction and novels have been nominated for several awards, including being a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the Philip K. Dick Award for Distinguished Science Fiction, and winning two Prix Aurora Awards, as well as being on the preliminary Nebula Ballot. A proponent of the use of science fiction in classrooms, Julie is series editor for
Tales from the Wonder Zone
(winner of the 2002 Golden Duck Special Award for Excellence in Science and Technology),
Realms of Wonder,
and author of such acclaimed teacher resources as
No Limits: Developing Scientific Literacy Using Science Fiction
. She currently serves as science fiction consultant to
Science News
.

 

Laura Anne Gilman made her first sale in 1997, to
Amazing Stories
. Since then, she has published over twenty-four short stories, written three nonfiction books for teenagers, and edited two anthologies (
OtherWere
and
Treachery and Treason
). In August 2004 her first original novel,
Staying Dead
, was released. She is also a professional editor and copywriter. She can be found on-line at
http://www.sff.net/people/lauraanne.gilman

 

Kage Baker is best known for her stories and novels of Dr. Zeus Incorporated (AKA The Company) whose immortal servants plunder the past for future profit. Her first novel,
In the Garden of Iden
, has been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish and Hebrew. Her most recent work,
The Anvil of the World
, is a fantasy in the style of Fritz Leiber and Jack Vance.
The Life of the World to Come
, the next Company novel, is a 2004 release. Ms. Baker lives in Pismo Beach, California.

 

After obtaining a degree in wildlife illustration and environmental education, Doranna Durgin spent a number of years deep in the Appalachian mountains, riding the trails and writing SF and fantasy books. She's moved on to the Northern Arizona mountains, where she still writes—more eclectically than ever—and rides, focusing on classical dressage. There's a Lipizzan in her backyard, a mountain looming outside her office window, a pack of dogs romping in the house, and a laptop sitting on her desk—and that's just the way she likes it. You can find a complete list of books (
Dun Lady's Jess
,
Wolverine's Daughter
,
A Feral Darkness . . .
) and tie-ins (
Angel, Mage Knight
) at
http://www.doranna.net/
, along with scoops about new projects, silly photos, and a link to her newsgroup. She's never been to Zion National Park—the setting for “A Call from the Wild”—but writing this story will probably change that.

 

James Alan Gardner was born in Bradford, Ontario, and currently resides in Waterloo. His work has appeared in
Amazing Stories
,
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
,
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
,
On Spec
, and the
Tesseracts
anthologies. His short story “The Children Of Crèche,” won the Grand Prize in the Writers of the Future contest in 1989. His short story “Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large” won an Aurora Award in 1991 and his short story “Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream” was an Aurora Award winner and a Hugo and Nebula Award finalist. He has seven published novels. His novel,
Commitment Hour
, made the preliminary Nebula Award list in 1998 and
Vigilant
was on the 1999 preliminary ballot.
Hunted
and
Vigilant
are sequels to his first novel
Expendable.
Look for James' newest in the series,
Radiant
.

 

Robin Wayne Bailey is the author of numerous novels, including
Talisman
,
Dragonkin
,
Night's Angel
, and
Shadowdance
. His short fiction has appeared most recently in
2001: The Best Science Fiction of the Year
,
Future Wars
,
Thieves' World
:
Turning Points
, and
ReVisions
. He's also edited
Architects of Dreams
:
The SFWA Author Emeritus Anthology
and
Through My Glasses Darkly: Five Stories By Frank M. Robinson
. He's the current chairman of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, an avid book collector, and student of Ryobu-kai Karate. He lives in North Kansas City, Missouri.

 

John G. McDaid is a media ecologist from Brooklyn, NY. Born the year NASA was created, he grew up reading science fiction: Robert Heinlein and Andre Norton were his other parents (as he grew up, they morphed into James Tiptree, Jr. and Thomas Pynchon.) He attended Syracuse University, did graduate work at the New School University, and is a doctoral candidate in Media Ecology at NYU. He attended the Clarion workshop in 1993, and sold his first short story, the Sturgeon Award-winning “Jigoku no mokushiroku” to
Asimov
's in 1995. A novelette, “Key-board Practice,” is scheduled to appear in
F&SF
in late 2004. He wrote one of the first hypertext novels,
Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse
, a
New Media
Invision Award finalist, in 1993, and has spoken on digital narrative at dozens of colleges and conferences. He lives in Rhode Island, where he is webmaster for a management consulting firm.

 

Peter Watts (
http://www.rifters.com
) is a reformed marine biologist whose first novel,
Starfish
, netted a “No-table Book of the Year” nod from
The New York Times
, an honorable mention for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and rejections from both German and Russian publishers because it was “too dark.” (Too dark for the
Russians
—think upon that and tremble.) The sequel,
Maelstrom
, was starred by Booklist and may mark the first time that
The New York Times
used the terms “exhilarating” and “deeply paranoid” to describe the same novel.
Behemoth
, the concluding volume of what (inevitably) turned out to be a trilogy, is a 2004 release. Dr. Watts' short fiction has been collected in
Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes
: earlier works appearing in the
Journal of Theoretical Biology
, the
Canadian Journal of Zoology
, and
Marine Mammal Science
are, when you get right down to it, no less fictitious.

 

Jihane Noskateb lives with a black cat on a thirteenth floor in Paris, France. Fascinated by ancient history, science fiction, and fantasy, she's currently and hectically engaged with a PhD and one or two novels. That bigamous situation between past and future leads her to view the present as an overrated thing, whose existence is dubious. Don't tell her she's presently published for the very first time. She might well think it's not real.

 

Kay Kenyon is the author of a dozen science fiction short stories and novels. Her 2003 novel,
The Braided World
, like several other of her novels, deals with an alien culture and the dilemmas of cross-cultural contact. Her novel
Maximum Ice
was nominated for the 2002 Phillip K. Dick Award, and has been translated into French. It is the tale of a ship of gypsies who return to Earth to find it altered, both wonderfully and dreadfully. Kay lives in Wenatchee, Washington, with her husband Thomas and a large, orange tabby named Sumo.

 

Mike Resnick is the author of more than forty science fiction novels, ten collections, and 150 stories, and has edited more than thirty-five anthologies. He has won four Hugos (and been nominated for twenty-three as a writer and two as an editor), a Nebula (with ten nominations), and awards from all over the globe, including the Prix Tour Eiffel (France), the Hayakawa SF Award (Japan), the Futura Award (Croatia), the Prix Ozone (France), the Fantastyka Award (Poland), the Ignotus Award (Spain), and the Sfinks Award (Poland).

 

Susan R. Matthews has several novels in print—many concerning the life and hard times of Andrej Koscuisko, who is not a nice man—but has only recently ventured into shorter fiction. She believes that nothing can withstand the awesome power of compassion except, perhaps, people who read Faulkner voluntarily. She and Maggie Nowakowska, her spousal equivalent of nearly twenty-five years, live in Seattle with two young Pomeranians whose worldview as regards potty training is staunchly situational. You can find her website with news, gossip, pictures, and Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor at
http://www.sff.net/people/Susan.scribens
.

 

Cory Doctorow (
http://www.craphound.com
) is the Campbell Award-winning author of the novels
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
and
Eastern Standard Tribe
, and the short story collection
A Place So Foreign and Eight More
. He is the coeditor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (
http://boingboing.net
) and works for a civil rights group in San Francisco called the Electronic Frontier Foundation (
http://www.eff.org
).

 

Born in 1964, Charles Stross lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he works as a freelance journalist and author; before switching to writing full time he pursued careers as a pharmacist and computer programmer. His most recent novel is
Singularity Sky.

 

Dr. Isaac Szpindel is an award-winning screenwriter, author, producer, electrical engineer, and medical doctor /neurologist. Some of his recently published SF short stories include “Porter's Progress” in the DAW anthology
Space Inc
. and the Prix Aurora Award finalist “By Its Cover” in
Tales from the Wonder Zone: Explorer
. Isaac's screenwriting credits include the Prix Aurora Award-winning “Underwater Nightmare” and Aurora finalist “Bat's Life,” both for the hit Warner Bros. TV series
Rescue Heroes
. He is the story editor and a screenwriter for the television series
The Boy
, and is cocreator and writer for a TV series currently in development with a national Canadian broadcaster and an Emmy Award-winning production house. Other screenwriting projects include an SF/ fantasy feature film and episodic television for a company based in France. Isaac was executive producer of the award-winning short
Hoverboy
, lectures often at various educational levels, and is a frequent on-air guest for Canadian Talk Television. For more, visit
http:/www.geocities.com/canadian_sf/szpindel

 

Jay Caselberg is an Australian writer based in London. His short fiction and poetry has appeared in many places around the world, including The Mammoth Book of Future Cops, Interzone, The Third Alternative
and others. His novel
Wyrmhole
, from Roc Books, came out in 2003 and the followup,
Metal Sky
, is due in 2004. Growing up in Australia, he traveled the world extensively, then moved to London in 1991. His work for major consultancies took him to many countries around the world, and to date he has worked in about fifty-five different countries. He is constantly working on new material and usually has one or two novels in progress at any one time. He also writes as James A. Hartley. You can visit his website at
http://www.sff.net/people/jaycaselberg