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Authors: John Joseph Adams
Both Tom Daly and the modern maraschino cherry hail from the same beautiful small town in the heart of Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Both ventured out of the valley, Mr. Daly going on to New York to study art, and the cherry going on to pretty much every bar on the planet. Mr. Daly has been making drawings for books, magazines, and comics since graduating from Parsons School of Design, way back in the twentieth century. When not drawing, Mr. Daly enjoys playing in the park with his sons, reading, long walks, and writing about himself in the
third person. Mr. Daly lives in New York City. More of his work can be seen at
TomDalyArt.com
.
HEODORA
G
OSS
Theodora Goss was born in Hungary and spent her childhood in various European countries before her family moved to the United States. Although she grew up on the classics of English literature, her writing has been influenced by an Eastern European literary tradition in which the boundaries between realism and the fantastic are often ambiguous. Her publications include the short story collection
In the Forest of Forgetting
(2006);
Interfictions
(2007), a short story anthology coedited with Delia Sherman; and
Voices from Fairyland
(2008), a poetry anthology with critical essays and a selection of her own poems. She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, and Mythopoeic Awards, as well as on the Tiptree Award Honor List, and has won the World Fantasy and Rhysling Awards.
USTIN
G
ROSSMAN
Austin Grossman is a video game design consultant and a doctoral candidate in English Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of the novel,
Soon I Will Be Invincible
. His second novel,
You
, is forthcoming from Mulholland Books in 2012, and his short fiction is also slated to appear in John Joseph Adams’s anthology
The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination
.
EINERT
H
ANSEN
Meinert has a long list of credits in film, television, and games. He has worked in animation, visual effects, and production design, in both traditional and digital media. He worked as production illustrator and concept artist on
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
,
Leatherheads
,
The Spiderwick Chronicles,
and
300
. As a visual effects concept artist and matte painter, he worked
on such films as
Silent Hill
,
Across the Universe
, and
Stranger Than Fiction
. Meinert also worked as an art director on the computer game Myst: Revelation. His television credits include
The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
,
Inside the Space Station
, and
Alien Planet
. As an animation director, Meinert’s credits include
Bad Dog
,
Bob Morane
, and his own cartoon short for Hanna-Barbera,
The Adventures of Captain Buzz Cheeply
. He is currently the senior concept artist at Warner Bros. Games in Montreal.
ICHAEL
W
M
K
ALUTA
Michael Wm Kaluta began his career in comic book illustration, working for Charlton Comics, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and some smaller firms. He later illustrated for science fiction magazines such as
Amazing Stories
and
Fantastic Stories
. During his early professional years, he was knee-deep in art for the Mystery comics—
House of Mystery
,
House of Secrets
, and the like—and began doing covers for both
Detective Comics
and
Batman
. In 1973 he illustrated the DC Comics revival of
The Shadow
. Along with various Shadow projects through the years, his career highlights include: the comic book adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s
Carson of Venus
for DC Comics, the art for the 1994 J. R. R. Tolkien calendar, illustrating two Robert E. Howard books (
The Lost Valley of Iskander
and
The Swords of Shahrazar
), and his dream project, illustrating Thea von Harbou’s
Metropolis
, the novelization of Fritz Lang’s famous silent science fiction film. The pinnacle of his science fiction/adventure/comics efforts is the ongoing comic
Starstruck
.
AVID
B
ARR
K
IRTLEY
David Barr Kirtley’s short fiction appears in books such as
New Voices in Science Fiction
,
Fantasy: The Best of the Year
,
The Dragon Done It
,
The Living Dead
, and
The Way of the Wizard
, and in magazines such as
Realms of Fantasy
,
Weird Tales
,
Intergalactic Medicine Show
,
and
Lightspeed
. He’s the cohost (along with John Joseph Adams) of
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy
podcast on io9, for which he’s interviewed dozens of authors and scientists, including George R. R. Martin, Orson Scott Card, Robert Kirkman, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. He holds an MFA in fiction and screenwriting from the University of Southern California, and for the past eight summers has taught at the Pittsburgh-area Alpha Young Writers Workshop. He lives in New York.
OE
R. L
ANSDALE
Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty-five novels and twenty short story collections. He is also an editor and coeditor of several anthologies of fiction and nonfiction. He has sold numerous screenplays and comics. He has received the Edgar Award, seven Bram Stoker Awards, the British Fantasy Award, and numerous others. Two of his stories, “Bubba Ho-Tep” and “Incident On and Off a Mountain Road” have been filmed. He writes regularly for
The Texas Observer
and is Writer in Residence at Stephen F. Austin State University. He is also a member of The Texas Institute of Letters.
ICHARD
A. L
UPOFF
Richard A. Lupoff first discovered the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs at the age of nine when he came across a copy of
Tarzan and the Ant-Men
. That was all it took, although it was many years before he found himself, at Canaveral Press in New York, working with the previously unpublished manuscripts of the famous author. After editing
Tarzan and the Madman
,
Tarzan and the Castaways
,
Tales of Three Planets
, and
John Carter of Mars
, Lupoff wrote two of the earliest and most important books about ERB—
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure
and
Barsoom: Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Martian Vision
—as well as editing and publishing
The Reader’s Guide to Barsoom and Amtor
. Lupoff has written many novels and short stories. His recent
books include
The Emerald Cat Killer
,
Rookie Blues
,
Killer’s Dozen
, and the trilogy
Terrors
,
Visions
, and
Dreams
.
ONATHAN
M
ABERRY
Jonathan Maberry is a
New York Times
bestselling author, multiple Bram Stoker Award winner, and comic book writer. His novels include
Rot & Ruin
,
Dead of Night
,
Patient Zero
,
Dust & Decay
,
The King of Plagues
,
Ghost Road Blues
,
Dead Man’s Song
,
Bad Moon Rising
, and
The Wolfman
. His nonfiction books include
They Bite
,
Zombie CSU
,
Wanted Undead or Alive
,
Vampire Universe
, and
The Cryptopedia
. He is the cofounder of the Liars Club and founder of the Writers Coffeehouse. Jonathan is also a career martial artist specializing in Jujutsu and Kenjutsu, and has worked as a bodyguard and chief-instructor for a company that provided advanced defense workshops to all aspects of law enforcement including SWAT. In 2004, he was inducted into the Martial Arts Hall of Fame. Visit him online at
jonathanmaberry.com
.
REGORY
M
ANCHESS
Creating a moment that communicates emotionally with the viewer is the essence of Gregory Manchess’s artwork. He combined his love for fine art and science fiction and began his freelance career painting for
OMNI
magazine. His versatility and broad range of interests allowed him to cross over to mainstream illustration. There he was able to expand his work to include covers for
Time
,
Atlantic Monthly
,
National Geographic
; spreads for
Playboy
,
Rolling Stone
,
Newsweek
, and
Smithsonian
; and numerous book covers, including sixty covers for Louis L’Amour. He is one of a few illustrators to have a painting on the cover of
National Geographic
magazine. Widely awarded within the industry, Manchess exhibits frequently at the Society of Illustrators in New York, where he won the coveted Hamilton King Award. He painted the Oregon coast for the 2009 Oregon Statehood Stamp for the USPS, and a 2011 portrait stamp of Mark Twain.
Gregory is included in Walt Reed’s latest edition of
The Illustrator in America, 1860–2000
.
ODESITT
, J
R
.
L. E. Modesitt, Jr., is the author of more than sixty science fiction and fantasy novels, including the Saga of Recluce, the Corean Chronicles, and the Spellsong Cycle, a number of short stories and technical and economic articles. He has the unusual distinction of never having been nominated for a SF/F award, despite numerous starred reviews in many review publications, and five nominations and two awards from romance-oriented reviewers even if in only one of his books did he even write a semi-graphic sensual scene. His novels have been translated into German, Polish, Dutch, Czech, Russian, Bulgarian, French, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, and Swedish. He has been a U.S. Navy pilot; a market research analyst; a real estate agent; director of research for a political campaign; legislative assistant and staff director for U.S. Congressmen; Director of Legislation and Congressional Relations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; a consultant on environmental, regulatory, and communications issues. His first story was published in
Analog
in 1973, and his latest book is
Princeps
(Tor, November 2011), the fifth book of The Imager Portfolio.
ARTH
N
IX
Garth Nix was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia. A full-time writer since 2001, he has worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and as a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. Garth’s books include the award-winning fantasy novels
Sabriel
,
Lirael
, and
Abhorsen
; and the cult favorite young adult SF novel
Shade’s Children
. His fantasy novels for children include
The Ragwitch
; the six books of The Seventh Tower sequence, and The Keys to the Kingdom
series. His most recent book is
Troubletwisters
, cowritten with Sean Williams. More than five million copies of his books have been sold around the world, his books have appeared on the bestseller lists of
The New York Times
,
Publishers Weekly
,
The Guardian
, and
The Australian
, and his work has been translated into thirty-eight languages. He lives in a Sydney beach suburb with his wife and two children.