- CATHERINE ASARO
- has a Ph.D. in chemical physics and M.A. in physics. She was a physics professor until 1990, when she established Molecudyne Research, which she currently runs. A former ballerina, Catherine has performed with ballets and in musicals on both coasts and in Ohio. In the 1980's she was a principal dancer and artistic director of the Mainly Jazz Dancers and the Harvard University Ballet. Catherine's fiction blends hard science fiction and exciting space adventure with some elements of romance. She is best known for her Saga of the Skolian Empire series. Her novels include Primary Inversion, Catch the Lightning, The Last Hawk, The Radiant Seas, The Veiled Web, The Quantum Rose, Ascendant Sun, The Phoenix Code, The Moon's Shadow, Schism, and others.
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- LENNY BAILES
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- JOHN BETANCOURT
- is best known as the editor-in-chief, publisher, and co-owner of Wildside Press. He made his fiction debut in 1982 with publication of the short story "Vernon's Dragon" in 100 Great Fantasy Short-Short Stories. Since then he has found time to edit Weird Tales magazine for several years as well as a handful of anthologies. He is the author of more than 30 novels and short story collections.
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- ED CARMIEN
- writes in New Jersey. First published as a teenager (non-fiction), he has sold twelve stories since 1996. These stories range in genre from science fiction to horror to fantasy; for him, the story comes first. In addition to being a writer, Edward teaches college English and lives with his spouse (many great years!) and kids (two of the finest!) near Princeton, New Jersey. His story "The Devil's Bridge" currently appears in Magic Tails a DAW Books anthology, while "Before the Wind" is slated to appear in Black Gate's 9th issue. He is a member of the SFWA as well as several other obscure yet useful organizations--for example, he's an Airhead, number 7573.
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- BARBARA CHEPAITIS
- is author of seven published novels, including the critically acclaimed Feeding Christine and These Dreams, as well as the sci-fi series featuring Jaguar Addams. The fourth novel in that series, A Lunatic Fear was recently nominated for a Romantic Times Bookclub award. Her screenplay The Finite Heart was recently optioned by Scott Storm of Stormwatch Productions in LA. Her other scripts have placed finalist with Chesterfield and Sundance Screenwriter's Lab. She is founder and director of the storytelling trio The Snickering Witches, and currently teaches creativity and storytelling at State University of New York at Albany.
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- ERIC CHOI
- is an aerospace engineer and writer who was the first recipient of the Isaac Asimov Award. His short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Space Inc., Tales from the Wonder Zone, Northern Suns, Tesseracts6, and Arrowdreams, as well as Asimov’s and Science Fiction Age magazine. “Plot Device”, his latest story, appears in the new anthology Northwest Passages (Windstorm).
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- BRENDA CLOUGH
- writes science fiction and fantasy, mainly novels. Her latest novel, Doors of Death and Life, was published by Tor Books in May 2000. Doors was released, bound with its predecessor, How Like A God, in a Science Fiction Book Club edition titled Suburban Gods. She also writes short stories and occasional nonfiction including a story appearing in Patrick Nielsen Hayden's anthology Starlight 3 and a story in the July-August 2002 issue of Analog. She has taught "Writing F&SF" at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
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- KATHRYN CRAMER
- Editor and Anthologist. Kathryn lives in Pleasantville, New York with David Hartwell & their two children. She usually forgets to mention her award nominations & newly released books.
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- ELLEN DATLOW
- encouraged and helped develop an entire generation of fiction writers as fiction editor of Omni magazine and Omni Online from 1981 through 1998. She is currently tied for winning the most World Fantasy Awards in the organization's history (seven); has won, with co-editor Terri Windling, a Bram Stoker Award for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 13, has received multiple Hugo Award nominations for Best Editor, and won the Hugo Award for Best Editor in 2002.
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- MICHAEL DIRDA
- is the winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. He has been an editor and writer for The Washington Post Book World for the past twenty years. His tasks range from writing reviews of literary fiction, intellectual history, children's books, science fiction and fantasy, mysteries, poetry, and biography, to features and personal essays about books and writing for the Book World column, "Readings."
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- TOM DOYLE
- writes in a spooky turret here in Washington, DC. In the past year, his stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Futurismic, Aeon, and Ideomancer. Currently, he's working on his first novel.
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- GARDNER DOZOIS
- edited Asimov's Science Fiction from 1985 to 2004, and has established himself as one of the foremost editors in the field of science fiction and fantasy, winning an unprecedented 14 Hugo Awards for best editor. For over twenty years, he has also edited the Year's Best Science Fiction collections. Somewhere in there he found the time to continue his own writing career, and won Nebula Awards for his short stories "Morning Child" in 1985, and "Peacemaker" in 1984.
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- SCOTT EDELMAN
- started his trek to the editor-in-chief position at Science Fiction Weekly decades ago, when he began working as an assistant editor at Marvel Comics. Between these two positions, this four-time Hugo Award nominee in the category of Best Editor was the founding editor of the award-winning magazine Science Fiction Age, in addition to editing Sci-Fi Universe, Sci-Fi Flix and Satellite Orbit. Currently, he also edits SCI FI, the official magazine of the SCI FI Channel. His most recent short story appears in the new issue of The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives.
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- DAVID ETTLIN
- Long time fan, and Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) founder
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- ANDREW FOX
- is the author of Fat White Vampire Blues and the recently published sequel, Bride of the Fat White Vampire. His next book, Calorie 3501, a black comedy SF novel about America's weight obsession that's also an homage to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, is under consideration. Andrew has a third Jules Duchon book outlined, plus a satirical religious fantasy, The End of Daze. He's also working on the first of a series of Young Adult science fantasy novels based on his high school dramatics experiences. *NOTE*: A series of discussion page entries detailing some of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on Andrew and his family can be found in Night Shade Books Discussion Area. We here at Capclave want to wish Andrew and his family the very best during this time of incredible adversity.
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- DOUG FRATZ
- is currently reviewing books for Science Fiction Weekly, and has been reviewing and writing on SF for over 30 years; Doug was the publisher and editor of the Hugo-Award-nominated magazine THRUST/QUANTUM for 20 years. He is also an environmental scientist with expertise in global environmental issues and environmental chemistry.
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- ALEXIS GILLILAND
- has won four Hugo Awards for best fan artist, the 1981 John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, two Fan Activity Achievement Awards, and three Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Polls. Alexis is a long-time host of the monthly First Friday WSFA meeting with his wife, Lee.
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- DAVE GOLDFEDER
- is a management consultant with degrees in engineering and business. He is a book reviewer for SFrevu.com. His interests are military history and the history of technology.
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- DAVID HARTWELL
- edits the annual Year's Best SF and Year's Best Fantasy (with Kathryn Cramer) anthologies. He is senior editor at Tor Books and previously worked at Arbor House, William Morrow, and Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster. He co-edited (with Kathryn Cramer) The Ascent of Wonder, an anthology on hard sf that was followed by The Hard SF Renaissance. He also serves as Reviews and Features Editor for the New York Review of Science Fiction.
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- PETER HECK
- is the author of the "Mark Twain Mysteries" series from Berkley Prime Crime: Death on the Mississippi, A Connecticut Yankee in Criminal Court, The Prince and the Prosecutor, The Guilty Abroad, The Mysterious Strangler and Tom's Lawyer. Peter's newest book is No Phule Like an Old Phule, which continues Robert Asprin's "Phule's Company" series. Peter is also a regular reviewer for Asimov's. Besides the written word, his interests include music (playing lead guitar with Col. Leonard's Irregulars) and chess (founding member of the Chestertown Chess Club, and a USCF member).
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- JOHN G. HEMRY
- has written Stark's War, Stark's Command, Stark's Crusade, A Just Determination, Burden of Proof, and Rule of Evidence. John is a retired U.S. Navy officer. He grew up living everywhere from Pensacola, Florida, to San Diego, California, including an especially memorable few years on Midway Island. In the U.S. Navy, he served in the Defense Intelligence Agency and Navy Anti-Terrorism Alert Center.
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- INGE HEYER
- Scientist
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- TOM HOLTZ
- is a dinosaur paleontologist specializing in the origin, evolution, adaptations, and paleobiology of carnivorous dinosaurs (especially Tyrannosaurus and its kin). He is a faculty member of the Department of Geology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Recent works include several chapters in University of California Press' The Dinosauria, Second Edition (the Bible of dinosaur research). In addition to his technical publications, Dr. Holtz has written several books for children (most recently T. Rex: Hunter or Scavenger? (Random House Step-Into-Reading Series)), and has been a consultant on numerous TV documentaries (including BBC/Discovery Channel's Walking with Dinosaurs) and museum exhibits. Check out the new dinosaur hall of at the Maryland Science Center! Dr. Holtz is the Faculty Director of the College Park Scholars-Earth, Life & Time Program, a living-learning program for freshmen and sophomores interested in Natural History. He lives in southern P.G. County with his wife (long-time fan costumer Sue Shambaugh) and a couple of cats.
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- JANE JEWELL
- is the executive director of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America and the Emergency Medical Fund coordinator. She's also a freelance photographer for Locus. Jane lives with her husband, author Peter Heck, in Chestertown, Maryland.
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- JORDIN KARE
- Why yes, Jordin Kare actually is a rocket scientist. A freelance satellite designer, to be precise, who has worked on projects as diverse as the Clementine lunar mapping mission, a 200-pound reusable lauch vehicle, and two different interstellar propulsion schemes. He's also a long time fan who went to his first con in 1975, a filker of considerable note (most recently music GOH at Balticon 2005) and the owner of a large collection of obsolete and obscure technological widgetry, moderately infamous as Jordin Kare's Garage. He lives in Seattle with his wife Mary Kay.
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- YOJI KONDO
- who writes science fiction under the pseudonym of Eric Kotani, headed the astrophysics laboratory at the Johnson Space Center in Houston during the Apollo missions, served as director of the geosynchronous satellite observatory for 15 years, and has taught at several universities; currently he teaches at the Catholic University of America. He has published over 200 scientific papers and has received the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement and had an asteroid named for him in 2000. He has published eight science fiction books and edited Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master.
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- L. JAGI LAMPLIGHTER
- has stories published in The Leading Edge, Dreams of Decadence, and Don't Open This Book!, Marvin Kaye's anthology of dark fantasy stories. She is married to John C. Wright and presently lives in Virginia, with their three children, Justinian, Orville and Wilbur.
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- EDWARD M. LERNER
- has degrees in physics and computer science, background that kept him mostly out of trouble until he began writing SF full-time. Probe, his first novel, is a space-oriented techno-thriller. His hard SF novel Moonstruck offers a fresh look at and a twist on the classic First Contact tale. His appearances in leading SF magazines include the cyberspace novel Survival Instinct (serialized in Analog) and the InterstellarNet series of novelettes (in Analog and Artemis) about the century-long evolution of a star-spanning, radio-based, trading community. His InterstellarNet novel A New Order of Things will be serialized in Analog beginning in May 2006. His shorter works have also appeared in anthologies Year’s Best SF 7 and WSFA’s own Future Washington.
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- ERNEST LILLEY
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- THOMAS MCCABE
- is a lifelong Mars enthusiast and a career intelligence analyst currently employed as an aviation analyst by the Department of Defense in Washington, DC. He has a Bachelor of Arts in political science from West Chester State College in Pennyslvania, an MA in international relations from Georgetown, and a Masters of Science Degree in strategic intelligence from Defense Intelligence College. He is also a lieutenant colonel in the US Air Force Reserve. His writings have been published in AIR AND SPACE POWER JOURNAL, AIR CHRONICLES, the ROYAL AIR FORCE AIR POWER REVIEW, STRATEGIC REVIEW, and AVIATION WEEK AND SPACE TCHNOLOGY. And with all that and a dollar, he can get a cup of coffee at McDonalds.
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- VICTORIA MCMANUS
- YA Author, reviewer, and interviewer. Victoria resides in Philadelphia.
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- SARAH MICKLEM
- has made a living as a graphic designer for the past 20 years. She wrote Firethorn while working as an art director for children's magazines in New York City. She lives with her husband, poet and playwright Cornelius Eady, in Washington, DC, where she is writing the second book of the Firethorn trilogy.
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- NANCY JANE MOORE
- lives in Washington, DC where she works as a legal editor. She attended Clarion West in 1997 and has short stories in many anthologies, including WSFA Press's Future Washington.
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- JAMES MORROW
- is best known for his magnum opus, the Godhead Trilogy. The first installment, Towing Jehovah, winner of the World Fantasy Award, recounts the efforts of a supertanker captain to entomb the corpse of God in an Arctic glacier. Jim's long-awaited postmodern historical epic, The Last Witchfinder, will appear from William Morrow early in 2006. His newest collection is The Cat's Pajamas and Other Stories, published last summer by Tachyon Books. Delirium Books has recently issued the Godhead Trilogy in a deluxe slipcased edition, including a chapbook of one-act plays on the theme of the Deus Absconditus (www.deliriumbooks.com).
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- MICHAEL D. PEDERSON
- is the publisher/editor/graphic designer responsible for the wildly successful semiprozine, Nth Degree. Mike began life as a semi-pro in 1988 when his SF short story, "Dust Storm," won first place in a local writing contest. In the 1990s he wrote and published the Raven comic book series and edited and published Scene, a Virginia-based entertainment magazine.
In 2001, Mike was part of the "Best in Class – Master Division" winning presentation (Pre-Emptive Strike) at the Millennium Philcon Masquerade which helped re-invigorated his interest in fandom. Since then Mike has attended over 60 conventions with Nth Degree. These days he is a member of the Washington Science Fiction Association, and wishes he could attend more meetings. In addition to Nth Degree, Mike has also recently started a new monthly e-zine — Nth Zine. He's also the con chair for next April's RavenCon in Richmond, Virginia. Yes, Mike is an insanely busy person; if you see him around the con please feed him lots of caffeine and/or beer.
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- BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM
- "Benjamin Rosenbaum's Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes' by Benjamin Rosenbaum" (All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories) has just been nominated for the 2005 Best Novelette Hugo Award. Benjamin has published stories in Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Year's Best Science Fiction 17, and other publications.
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- STEVEN SAWICKI
- Writer, Reviewer, Screenwriter. Author of "Invisible Friends" published in Absolute Magnitude in Spring of 2001 and republished Eggplant Literary in Spring of 2005. "Invisible Friends Too" was published in Absolute Magnitude in 2005. Steven is also a regular contributor to SFRevu.com where he writes the monthly "Damnaliens" film review column. His short story "Mr. Zmith Goes to Washington" was recently published in the Future Washington anthology published by WSFA Press and a new story "Machine Dreams" will be coming out soon.
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- SAM SCHEINER
- is a long-time fan and scientist. His scientific areas of expertise are ecology and evolution, where he has published 4 books and over 60 papers. He has also co-authored a book with SF author Phyllis Eisenstein on arthritis. Currently he works at the National Science Foundation giving away money.
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- DARRELL SCHWEITZER
- is the author of 250 published stories and three novels. His books include The Mask of the Sorcerer, The Shattered Goddess, and Nightscapes. He is co-editor of Weird Tales and reviews for The New York Review of Science Fiction.
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- ANNE SHELDON
- was born in Washington, DC, and graduated from Swarthmore College. Formerly a children's librarian, she lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with two cats, where she is active in her church. She is currently a poet-in-the-schools working through the Maryland State Arts Council and teaches storytelling at the College of Library and Information Sciences at the University of Maryland. As a storyteller, she has performed widely in the mid-Atlantic region. Her repertoire includes folktales and legends as well as her own narrative poetry and that of classic poets such as Robert Frost.
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- HILDY SILVERMAN
- is a freelance writer and editor of both fiction and non-fiction. She is a Contributing Editor for Achieving Families magazine and the editor of the upcoming Phobos Books e-book anthology, Reality Cops: The Continuing Adventures of Vale and Mist. She has had four short stories published to date and is in the process of completing her first novel, a dark fantasy entitled, The Way of Things. Ms. Silverman is a member of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Garden State Horror Writers. She holds a degree in English and American Literature, with Honors in Creative Writing from Brandeis University.
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- JON SINGER
- is the Resident Researcher of the Joss Research Institute, a tiny nonprofit organization in Laurel, Maryland. He works with lasers, ceramics, plant genetics, and one or two other areas of interest. Jon is a fanatical food fan, despite having serious (though fortunately not usually debilitating) food allergies. He is a member of the Central Javanese Gamelan Ensemble of the Indonesian Embassy. His recent publications include an article on fluorescent and phosphorescent glazes for pottery, published in the May-June, 2005 issue of Clay Times Magazine; and the following Web page, devoted to the question "Is a poke in the eye with a sharp stick better or worse than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick?" Jon does not typically write fiction, but does read it.
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- JERI SMITH-READY
- has been writing fiction since the night she had her first double espresso. She holds a master's degree in environmental policy and lives in Maryland with her husband, two cats, and two hounds (current count). Jeri's first novel, urban fantasy Requiem for the Devil, was released in 2001. Her new epic fantasy trilogy will begin November 2006 with the Luna Books publication of The Eyes of Crow.
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- BUD SPARHAWK
- started reading science fiction around 1948 or so, touching on the Bradbury stories in Colliers and Reader's Digest. His serious reading of SF, and the beginnings of his desire to write, began later, when he was barely into his teens. He has detailed the journey that he has taken since that fateful day in a biography published by TANGENT (Spring, 1995.) ANALOG ran a Biolog by Jay Kay Klien in the May '94 issue. And, soon after, the local paper wrote an article about his first cover story for Analog. He says: "I am much like the majority of people who enjoy speculative fiction: I have a very demanding day-job and what little spare time I do have I spend either sailing on Chesapeake Bay (Spring - Autumn), Square dancing (September - June) and writing, writing, writing."
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- STEVE STILES
- Fanzines and Humor.
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- MICHAEL SWANWICK
- has received the Hugo, Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards for his work. Stations of the Tide was honored with the Nebula Award and was also nominated for the Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Awards. "The Edge of the World," was awarded the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award in 1989 and nominated for both the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. "Radio Waves" received the World Fantasy Award in 1996. "The Very Pulse of the Machine" received the Hugo Award in 1999, as did "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" in 2000. His books include In the Drift, Vacuum Flowers, Griffin's Egg, Stations of the Tide, The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Jack Faust, and Bones of the Earth.
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- MICHAIL VELICHANSKY
- was born in the former Soviet Union, but left with his parents when he was five years old. After living in Austria and Italy, Michail's family received political asylum from the United States. This was less exciting to a five year old than things like Legos and gum and ripe bananas, which were all quite new and delicious (except, possibly, the Legos). Michail has been writing for five years. He received 1st place in the 1st quarter 2005 Writers of the Future award and recently made his first professional sale to the horror anthology Corpse Blossoms. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland in College Park. He also attended the Odyssey writing workshop in 2003.
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- RIVKA WALD
- is a psychologist and researcher who focuses on the intersection between mental and physical health. She keeps a political and scientific weblog, Respectful of Otters, which she updated much more frequently before motherhood struck.
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- MICHAEL WALSH
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- LAWRENCE WATT-EVANS
- is the author of more than thirty novels, over one hundred short stories, over one hundred and fifty published articles, and a few comic books, as well as the editor of one published anthology. Most of his writing has been in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comic books. He has been a full-time writer and editor for more than twenty-five years, and is always interested in new projects.
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- DIANE WEINSTEIN
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- ALLEN WOLD
- was born in Michigan, finished high school in Tucson, Arizona, and graduated from Pomona College, in Claremont, California, where he later met his wife, Diane. They married in 1972, and moved to North Carolina, where he began his career as a full time writer. In 1986, he became a full time father, writing when he could make the time. In 2003, he became a full time writer again, when his daughter, Darcy, went off to college, at Pomona. He has published nine novels (has written several more, most of which will never see print, thank God), several short stories (mostly for the Elf Quest anthologies), five non-fiction books on computers (he's completely self-taught, and it probably shows), and a number of articles, columns, reviews, and so forth, also concerning computers (written in language even he can understand). Currently, Allen has one novel, a ghost story, being sent around by his new agent, and is working on an epic heroic fantasy (half way done at 1,000 pages, details on request). Allen has been running his version of a writer's workshop at conventions for about twenty years, and has had some success, since several people have not only finished but sold stories started in the workshop. Allen is a member of SFWA, and Toastmasters International (which gives him a captive audience).
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- JOHN C. WRIGHT's
- first science fiction novel, Golden Age, was released in 2002. It was followed by Phoenix Exultant and The Golden Transcendence. His first fantasy, Last Guardian of Everness, was published in April 2003. A sequel, Mists of Everness, came out in 2005. John has published stories in Asimov's and in YEAR'S BEST ANNUAL 3.
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