LoneStarCon 2, the 1997 Worldcon: Program Participants

The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention and Chili Cook-off, Variously known as the 55th World Science Fiction Convention and LoneStarCon 2, the 1997 Worldcon, To be held from August 28th through September 1st, in the year 1997, in San Antonio, Texas.
LoneStarCon 2, the 1997 Worldcon: Program Participants

he following is a list of some of the writers, editors, artists, fans, and other interesting people who plan to attend LoneStarCon 2. Please send any suggested web link updates to alamowebmaster@alamo-sf.org.

Lynn Abbey [bio], Alyson Abramowitz, Forry Ackerman, Joe Agee [bio], Roger MacBride Allen, Susan Allison, Aaron Allston [bio], Jens H. Altmann, Kevin J. Anderson, C. Dean Andersson, Arlan Andrews, Sr., Steve Antczak, Patricia Anthony, Lou Aronica, Catherine Asaro [bio], Robin Wayne Bailey, Wilhelmina Baird, Bill Baldwin [bio], Gerri Balter, Wayne Barlowe, Neal Barrett, Jr. [bio], William Barton, Martha A. Bartter, Kurt Baty, E. Susan Baugh, Wolfgang Baur, Stephen Baxter, Austin Bay [bio], Covert Beach, Martha Beck, Tom Becker, Delores Goodrick Beggs, M. Shayne Bell, Judy Bemis, Gregory Benford, Gregory Bennett [bio], Mitchell Davidson Bentley, Joe Bergeron, Joshua Bilmes, Keith Birdsong, Bob Blackwood [bio], Tippi Blevins, Suzanne Alles Blom, K. B. Bogen [bio], Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Frank Boosman, Terry Boren, Alexander Bouchard, Stephen Boucher, Mark Bourne [bio], Richard Brandt, David Bratman, Seth Breidbart, Kent Brewster [bio], David Brin, Charles N. Brown, Dwight Brown, William Michael Brown, MD, Amy Bruce, James Brunet, Edward Bryant, Ginjer Buchanan, Algis Budrys [bio], Edna Budrys, Lois McMaster Bujold, Emma Bull, Chris Bunch, Brian Burley, Crispin Burnham, Lillian Butler, Pat Cadigan [bio], A. T. Campbell III, Michael Capobianco, Lillian Stewart Carl [bio], Jayge Carr, Susan Casper [bio], Jeanne Cavelos, Bill Cavin, Caz Cazedessus, Jack L. Chalker, Suzy McKee Charnas, Cy Chauvin, David A. Cherry, C. J. Cherryh, Bill Child, Chad Childers [bio], Rob Chilson, Richard Chwedyk, Hal Clement, Brenda W. Clough, Allan Cole, Loren Coleman, Ron Collins, Cat Conrad, Roxanne Conrad, Glen Cook, Commander Tom Cool [bio], Earl Cooley III, Jim Cooper, Tim Corbett, Greg Costikyan, John G. Cramer [bio], Vince Creisler, Bill Crider [bio], A. C. Crispin, Shirley Crossland, Rick Crownover, Ctein, Scott A. Cupp [bio], D. E. Dabbs, Elizabeth Danforth, Kate Daniel, Randy Dannenfelser, Richard Dansky, Joni Brill Dashoff, Todd Dashoff, Ellen Datlow, Howard L. Davidson, Patricia Davis, Jaque Davison, Sue Dawe, Genevieve Dazzo [bio], Susan de Guardiola, John DeChancie, A.M. Dellamonica [bio], Bradley Denton [bio], Vincent Di Fate, Nick DiChario, Lucienne Diver, Carole Nelson Douglas, John R. Douglas, Debra Doyle, Gardner Dozois, Fred Duarte, Andy Duncan, Dawn Dunn, J. R. Dunn, Linda J. Dunn [bio], Marianne J. Dyson, Don Eastlake III, Claire Eddy, Scott Edelman, Chris Logan Edwards, Bob Eggleton [bio], Janice Eisen, Alex Eisenstein [bio], Phyllis Eisenstein, P. N. Elrod, Ru Emerson, Glen Engel-Cox, Jill Engel-Cox, Terry England, Craig E. Engler [bio], Kurt Erichsen, Jennifer Evans, Jane Fancher, Lionel Fanthorpe, Randy Farran, Bill Fawcett, Moshe Feder, David Feintuch [bio], Harold Feld [bio], Gary Feldbaum, Robert Feldhoff, Tom Feller, Mark Fewell, Sheila Finch [bio], James W. Fiscus, George Flentke, Melanie Fletcher [bio], Lynn Flewelling [bio], Terry Floyd, Dr. John L. Flynn [bio], Michael F. Flynn, Kaja Foglio, Phil Foglio, Brad W. Foster, John Foyt, Sue Francis, Howard Frank, Jane Frank, Laura Frankos, Frank Kelly Freas, Laura Brodian Freas, Klaus N. Frick, Esther Friesner, Dan Gallagher, James Alan Gardner [bio], Richard Garfinkle, Elizabeth Garrott, Janice Gelb, David Gerrold, Gail Gerstner-Miller, John Gibbons, Richard Gilliam, Alexis A. Gilliland, Laura Anne Gilman, Benoit Girard, James C. Glass, Mike Glyer, Barry Gold, Lee Gold, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Adrienne Gormley, Steven Gould [bio], Ashley Grayson, Scott E. Green, Terence M. Green, Hugh Gregory, Lois H. Gresh, Joe Grillot [bio], Jim Groat, Anne Lesley Groell [bio], Eileen Gunn, Jon Gustavson, George Guthridge, Karen Haber, Gay Haldeman, Joe Haldeman, Beverly A. Hale, Bruce G. Hallock, Barbara Hambly, Peter F. Hamilton, Norm Hartman, William K. Hartmann [bio], David G. Hartwell, Teddy Harvia [bio], Peter J. Heck [bio], Stuart C. Hellinger, Jason Henderson, Howard V. Hendrix, Allison Hershey, John Hertz, Bill Higgins, P. C. Hodgell, Debbie Hodgkinson, Pamela Hodgson [bio], Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Rachel E. Holmen, Butch Honeck, Steven D. Howe, Dave Howell, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Kathy Ice, Tim Illingworth, Al Jackson, Micah Jackson, Pat Jackson, Steve Jackson, Jael, Ken Jenks [bio], Geri Jeter, K. W. Jeter [bio], Kij Johnson, Les Johnson [bio], Angela Jones, J V Jones, Neil Kaken, Morris Keesan, James Patrick Kelly, Tasha Kelly, Bart Kemper, Peggy Kennedy, Kay Kenyon, John J. Kessel [bio], Greg Ketter, Tom Kidd, James Killus, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Tappan W. King, Rick Klaw [bio], Jay Kay Klein, Thomas W. Knowles [bio], Yoshio Kobatashi, Rick Kolker, Erle Melvin Korshak, Julie Kosatka, Irene W. Kraas, Edward E. Kramer, Susan J. Kroupa, Theodore Krulik, David M. Kushner, Dave Kyle, 'Zanne Labonville, Jay Lake, Timothy Lane, Joe Lansdale, Alexis Glynn Latner [bio], Joy Marie Ledet, April Lee, Denise Lee, Evelyn C. Leeper, Fred Lerner, David Levine, Tony Lewis, Jacqueline Lichtenberg [bio], Guy H. Lillian III, Brad Linaweaver, Patrick LoBrutto, Jerry Emerson Loomis, Jean Lorrah, Denis Loubet, Lubov, Perrianne Lurie [bio], Bradford Lyau, Dick Lynch, Nicki Lynch, Sonia Orin Lyris, Donald Maass, Pat MacEwen, Don Maitz, Laura Majerus, Joseph Major, Julia S. Mandala, Jim Mann, Laurie Mann, Jerrie Marchand, Louise Marley, George R. R. Martin, Thomas K. Martin, David Marusek, Elise Matthesen, Susan R. Matthews, Kellie Matthews-Simmons, Joe Mayhew, Paul J. McAuley, Shawna McCarthy, Wil McCarthy, Karen E. B. McCue, John G. McDaid, Jack McDevitt, Ian McDonald, Terry McGarry, Erin McKee, Christopher McKitterick, Lori Meltzer, Karen Mermel, Karen Meschke, Karen Meyers, Victor Milán, Craig Miller [bio], Farran Miller, John J. Miller, Ron Miller, Sasha Miller, C. J. Mills, Betsy Mitchell, Ellisa Mitchell, Laura J. Mixon, Rebecca Moesta, Devon Monk, Elizabeth Moon [bio], Linda Moorcock, Michael Moorcock [bio], Clayburn Moore, John Moore, Sandra C. Morrese, Phil Morrissey, Mike Moscoe, Kevin Murphy, J Murray, Muff Musgrave, Real Musgrave, Linda Nagata [bio], Vera Nazarian, Ingrid Neilson, Kim Newman, Patrick Nielsen Hayden [bio], Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Larry Niven, Gerald D. Nordley, Patricia Duffy Novak [bio], Jody Lynn Nye, Patrick O'Leary, Glen Oliver, Mark Olson, Priscilla Olson, Jerry Oltion, Gene O'Neill, Margaret Organ-Kean, Ben Ostrander, David Lee Pancake, Bill Parker, Richard Parks, Spike Parsons, Teresa Patterson, Peggy Rae Pavlat, Hayford Peirce, Bruce Pelz, Lawrence Person [bio], Nick Perumov, Herbie J. Pilato, Anne Phyllis Pinzow, Capucine R. Plourde, Frederik Pohl, Andrew I. Porter, Jerry Pournelle, Tim Powers, Terry Pratchett, Linn Prentis [bio], Paul Preuss, Tullio Proni, Vol Ranger, Peggy Ranson, Eric Raymond, Carol Redfield, Joe Redfield, Robert Reed, Robert Reeves, Katya Reimann [bio], Carol Resnick, Laura Resnick, Mike Resnick [bio], Neil Rest, Carrie Richerson [bio], Nonie Rider, Jennifer Roberson, John Maddox Roberts, Madeleine E. Robins [bio], Kim Stanley Robinson, Roberta Rogow, Jennie A. Roller, Nina Romberg, Mary Rosenblum, Leslie Roth, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Mary Doria Russell, Charles C. Ryan, Robert E. Sacks, William Sanders, David Sandner, Denise Satter, Robert J. Sawyer, Sharon Sbarsky, Stanley Schmidt, Debbi Schouten, Eckhard Schwettmann, Lee Seed, Barclay Shaw, Nancy Tucker Shaw, Mark Shepherd, Randy Shepherd, Sherlock, Josepha Sherman, Will Shetterly, Sharon Shinn, Susan M. Shwartz, Joe Siclari, Robert Silverberg, Lisa S. Silverthorne [bio], Pat Sims, Roger Sims, Bradley H. Sinor, Nina Siros, Willie Siros, Glenn R. Sixbury, Alex Slate, Dave Smeds, Dean Wesley Smith, Dick Smith, Sherwood Smith, Susan Smith, Lisa Snellings, Dick Spelman, S. P. Somtow, Martha Soukup [bio], Caroline Spector, Warren Spector, Henry Spencer, William Browning Spencer, George Spicuzza, G. K. Sprinkle, Michael A. Stackpole, Kevin Standlee, John Steakley, Allen Steele, Tony Steele, D Steffan, Bruce Sterling [bio], Edie Stern, Sandy Stewart, Sean Stewart [bio], Pras Stillman, S. M. Stirling, John E. Stith, John Stopa, J. Michael Straczynski, Edwin Strickland, John Strickland, Ian Randal Strock, Jean Stuntz, Michael Swanwick [bio], Lucy A. Synk, Roy Tackett [bio], Robert Taylor, Amy Thomson, Diann Thornley, B. J. Thrower, Mark W. Tiedemann [bio], Charles S. Tritt, David Truesdale, Harry Turtledove, Rochelle Marie Uhlenkott, Uncle River, M. C. Valada, Gordon Van Gelder, Mark L. Van Name, James Van Pelt, Allen Varney, Tom Veal, Edd Vick, Denise Vitola [bio], Melanie von Orlow, Ray Vukcevich, Susan Wade, Sage Walker [bio], Ron Walotsky, Michael J. Walsh, Michael R. Walsh, Judith Ward, Lynn Ward, Elisabeth Waters, Bob Wayne, Don Webb [bio], Len Wein, Jacob Weisman, Toni Weisskopf, Henry Welch, Martha Wells [bio], Patty Wells, K. D. Wentworth [bio], Leslie What, Andrew Wheeler, Wendy Wheeler, Guy Wicker, Mel. White, Victoria White, Tom Whitmore, Rick Wilber [bio], M. D. Williams, Russ Williams, Sheila Williams, Walter Jon Williams [bio], Jack Williamson, Connie Willis, Courtney Willis, Lori Wolf, Gene Wolfe, Marv Wolfman, Noel Wolfman, Joanne Wood, Malcolm B. Wood, Janny Wurts, Ben Yalow, J. Steven York [bio], Stephen Youll, Kate Yule, Timothy Zahn, Tony Zbaraschuk, Leah H. Zeldes, Sarah Zettel [bio], Mark Ziesing.Robert Zubrin,

Biographies
Here is biographical information about some of our convention attendees:

Lynn Abbey

I'm Lynn Abbey, ex-New Yorker and ex-Michigander. I became an Oklahoman in 1994. At the rate I'm slowly migrating west, I expect to be buried in Hawaii.

My first novel, Daughter of the Bright Moon, was published in 1978. Since then I've had fourteen novels published, most of them fantasies and, most recently, Siege of Shadows (ACE Books) and The Simbul's Gift.

I write fantasies because when my imagination gets going, it's full of magic, intrigue and the colors of a stained-glass window. If Science Fiction is the fiction of possible futures, then Fantasy is the fiction of possible histories, but characters come first, as real and human as I can make them.

Joe Agee

Joe Agee has been part of Minneapolis fandom since 1986 and is known for his efforts organizing hospitality rooms, panels for programming, and as a leader in media and gay fandom. Last year he chaired Diversicon 4, a convention dedicated to celebrating and improving multiculturism in SF fandom, and did a variety of programming at Minicon, the Midwest regional convention, including his longstanding Vampires on a Bed of Rice.

Aaron Allston

A native Texan with a love of spicy foods and Corsicana fruitcakes (no jokes, now), Allston is the author of several novels (including Galatea in 2-D and Doc Sidhe) and over forty games (including Ninja Hero and The Complete Fighter's Handbook).

Publicly cursed to eternal damnation by the chairman of a major Oklahoma convention, Allston plans to repeat the experience in all southwestern states.

Allston's most recent work includes Sidhe-Devil, the sequel to Doc Sidhe, and Wraith Squadron, fifth novel in the Star Wars: X-Wing series, both to be published in 1998.

Catherine Asaro

Catherine Asaro's fiction is a successful blend of hard science fiction and exciting space adventure. Catch the Lightning came out in Dec 1996 from Tor and the pb will be released in Oct 1997. It is currently on the Nebula Award preliminary ballot. Dr. Asaro was an invited guest at the conference Technology and American Culture given by the University of Freiburg in Germany, where she read from Catch the Lightning. Her critically acclaimed novel, Primary Inversion also came out from Tor. It was on the 1995 preliminary Nebula ballot and the Locus recommended reading list, and was a finalist for the Compton Crook award. The Last Hawk, comes out in Nov 1997 and The Radiant Seas in 1998. All four books are set in the same universe, but all are stand alone novels and can be read in any order (The Radiant Seas, however, continues the story from Primary Inversion).

She has published short fiction in Analog, reviews and nonfiction essays, and scientific papers in such as Physical Review Letters, The Journal of Chemical Physics, and Chemical Physics Letters. Her paper, "Complex Speeds and Special Relativity" in the April 1995 issue of The American Journal of Physics forms the basis for some of the science in her novels. She also writes a column for Tangent magazine. She can be reached at asaro@sff.com and at http://www.sff.net/people/asaro/

Bill Baldwin

Bill Baldwin, author of The Helmsman (1985), Galactic Convoy (1987), The Trophy (1990), The Mercenaries (1991), The Defenders (1992), The Siege (1994), Canby's Legion (1995), and The Defiance (October 1996) all published by Warner-Aspect, is a graduate of The Mercersburg Academy ('53) and the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a B.A. in Journalism in 1959 and a Master of Letters degree in 1960. He spent the next three years as a Lieutenant at the U.S. Air Force Missile Test Center, Foreign Technology Division, Cape Canaveral, Florida, supporting Project Mercury. In July 1963, he became a contractor for the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Florida Operations, where he managed the writing group handling Astronaut public relations and technical presentations during the Gemini and early Apollo programs.

At the Cape, Bill was intrigued by the burgeoning computer technology associated with spacecraft operations, and in 1965 moved north to work as a computer programmer for Burroughs Corporation (now UNISYS). In the Defense and Space Division of Burroughs, he began a second career happily immersed in leading-edge computer technology and programming methods. After additional years in Advanced Software Technology with Xerox Corporation supporting the Palo Alto Research Center during its "Golden Age," he is now a Principal Partner in Helmsman Publications, Inc., where he still spends much of his time staring into a CRT. His email address is borodov@aol.com

Bill is a hopeless devotee of old-fashioned, nuts-and-bolts Space Opera, a life member of SFWA, and a lover of classic wooden Chris-Craft runabouts--particularly a meticulously restored '51 Riviera named Merlin. He and his wife, Pat, enjoy the good southern life in Dallas, Texas, under virtual control of two space-alien cats (Felis Horriblis), Bunthorne and Odile.

Neal Barrett, Jr.

Toastmaster Neal Barrett, Jr. began publishing SF in the late 1950s, but his work is not easy to categorize, as it spans the spectrum from SF, historical novels, magical realism, and westerns, all the way to "gonzo" semi-mainstream fiction. Regardless of the genre, his work is generally darkly humorous and intensely human. In the late 1980s, he published Through Darkest America and its sequel, Dawn's Uncertain Light, which brought him considerable attention. His most recent books include The Hereafter Gang, Pink Vodka Blues and Dead Dog Blues. More information is available about Neal Barrett, Jr.

Austin Bay

Austin Bay is the author of four non-fiction books and two novels, including the critically acclaimed thriller, Prism (HarperCollins). He writes a foreign affairs column for The San Antonio Express-News and has appeared as a guest commentator on CNN, C-SPAN, ABC News Nightline, and numerous radio and tv programs.

Bay's A Quick and Dirty Guide to War: Third Edition (a non- fiction assessment of current and potential armed conflicts) was published in August 1996 by William Morrow. The new edition (co-authored with James Dunnigan) won the Violet Crown Award for Best Non-fiction, 1996.

Bay, who has had two commercial wargames published, served for four years as a special consultant in wargaming in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (1989-1993). He is a U.S. Army Reserve lieutenant-colonel and served on active duty during Operation Desert Storm. He has a doctorate in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He lives in central Texas, where he enjoys playing jazz piano.

Gregory Bennett

Scientist/author Gregory Bennett is a regular contributor to Analog. His best-known story is probably "The Last Plague".

Bob Blackwood

Dr. Bob Blackwood, film critic for Chicago's "Near North News," is a professor of English and Communications Media at Wright College, City Colleges of Chicago. In the last year, he has made people laugh at DeepSouthCon in Jackson, MI; CapriCon in Chicago; and ValleyCon in Fargo, ND. He teaches literature and film courses, is fond of cats, single malt whisky and Diane Miller (in reverse order).

K. B. Bogen

K. B. Bogen is the author of Go Quest, Young Man. Believe it or not, she says she likes puns.

Mark Bourne

Mark Bourne's fiction has appeared in magazines such as Asimov's and Fantasy & Science Fiction, and in anthologies such as Chicks In Chainmail (and its forthcoming sequel Did You Say "Chicks"?), Alternate Tyrants, Full Spectrum 5, and Sherlock Holmes In Orbit, with more to come. He is also a scriptwriter specializing in science programs for planetariums, TV and video. His newest planetarium show opens in Boston this October, and by the time of this convention may be a writer for the PBS TV series Bill Nye The Science Guy. He can be found online at http://www.sff.net/people/MBourne/. And his novel's coming along nicely, thanks.

Kent Brewster

Kent Brewster writes odd little stories

"In the Pound, Near Breaktime" was a Nebula finalist this year

and publishes Speculations, a bimonthly magazine for writers who want to break into the sf, fantasy, horror, or "other" speculative fiction markets.

Algis Budrys

Guest of Honor Algis Budrys (aka A.J.) is a genuine triple-threat: a renowned SF writer, critic and editor. His best-known novels include Rogue Moon, Michaelmas, Who? and Falling Torch. In the mid-1960s, he began doing regular book reviews, many of which appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. During the 1980s and early 1990s, he was involved with the Writers of the Future project, a contest that introduced such writers as Karen Joy Fowler, Robert Reed and David Zindell to the field. He has also served as an administrator for the Philip K. Dick Award, and now edits Tomorrow SF magazine.

Pat Cadigan

Writer and media star Pat Cadigan has an attitude in everything she does. Her groundbreaking science fiction has been published in the novels Mindplayers, Synners, and Fools, and the collection Patterns.

Lillian Stewart Carl

Lillian Stewart Carl is a writer from the Dallas area. Her most recent story, "The Blood of the Lamb", appeared in the anthology The Time of the Vampires.

Susan Casper

Susan Casper has published over 25 short stories in magazines such as Asimov's, F&SF and Playboy, and in several science fiction, fantasy and horror anthologies.

Chad Childers

Chad Childers is the internal Web and USENET News administrator at Ford Motor Company, and in his copious spare time avoids sleep by upgrading the Stilyagi Air Corps Calendar, http://www.stilyagi.org/con.list.html. Version 3 will tell you which cons you should go to, which parties have the best Scotch, and which ones to avoid because of psycho ex-girlfriends, all while beating Deep Blue at chess.

Commander Tom Cool

Tom Cool is a true name. A native of western Pennsylvania, Tom is a graduate of Penn State's creative writing program. As a naval intelligence officer, he has made four deployments in aircraft carrier battle groups. His first novel, Infectress, was published by Baen Publishing Enterprises in January 1997. His second book, Secret Realms, wiil be published by Tor in June 1998. Fantasy and Science Fiction published his short story, "Universal Emulators," in July 1997. He is currently collaborating on Soldier of Light with John deLancie. Eva Cool, a Chinese descendant from the Republic of Panama, and Tom are raising two astoundingly happy children, Raquel, 12, and Alexander, 9. The family speaks English, Chinese and Spanish. They live in Austin, Miami and Panama.

John G. Cramer

John Cramer is a native Texan. He was born in Houston and attended Edgar Allen Poe Elementary School (!), Lanier and Lamar High Schools, and Rice University, where he ultimately earned a physics PhD. He is now a Professor of Physics at the University of Washington in Seattle. He writes "The Alternate View" columns about physics and astronomy published bi-monthly in Analog SF/F Magazine. He has written two hard SF novels about cutting-edge physics, Twistor (1989) and the just-published Einstein's Bridge(1997), which is set in Waxahatchie, Texas after the Superconducting Super Collider goes into operation. It's about high energy physics, wormholes, alien contact, time travel (the hard way!), and the killing of the SSC Project by the US Congress. Information about John's books and AV column reprints are on the Web at: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcramer/.

Bill Crider

Bill Crider is the author of the 1996 Anthony Award nominee for best short story, "How I Found a Cat, Lost True Love, and Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo," as well as many mystery novels in three different series. He has also written three children's books: Mike Gonzo and the Sewer Monster, Mike Gonzo and the Almost Invisible Man, and Mike Gonzo and the UFO Terror. His first book, Too Late to Die, won the Anthony Award as "best first mystery novel" in 1986. His first private-eye novel, Dead on the Island, was nominated for a Shamus Award by the Private-Eye Writers of America.

Scott A. Cupp

Scott A. Cupp is known for writing some amazingly strange stories in the genres of horror and cowpunk. You should really seek out his alternate Alamo story "Thirteen Days of Glory" (published in Razored Saddles) and his sacrilegious but brilliant "King of the Cows" (published in South by Midnight and graphically adapted in Weird Business). Scott can usually be found in the dealers' room selling books.

Genevieve Dazzo

Genevieve Dazzo holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry and is well versed in many different scientific disciplines. She has held senior positions at several Software, Pharmaceutical, Telecommunications, and Aerospace companies. She is the head of Quality Associates, a company that trains other companies and their employees in aspects of Total Quality Management, Statistical Process Control, Design of Experiment, Graphical User Interface, and a variety of advanced computer and management skills.

Genevieve has been active in science fiction fandom both in New York City and Los Angeles since the mid-70s and has worked on many conventions including both Worldcons and regional conventions. She is currently on the Board of the Southern California Institute for Fan Interests (SCIFI) and was on the committee for L.A.con III, the 1996 World Science Fiction Convention.

A.M. Dellamonica

A.M. Dellamonica has been, at various points in her life, a theatre technician, rape crisis worker, college newspaper editor, actor, apprentice pink-collar slave trader, alarm monitor, piccolo diva and guerrilla secretary. A resident of Vancouver, B.C., Canada, where she lives with the most wonderful woman in the world, she is a member of the Fangs of God on-line writers workshop. Her stories have appeared in Crank!, Realms of Fantasy, Tomorrow Speculative Fiction and a number of other magazines and anthologies.

Bradley Denton

Austin writer Bradley Denton recently won a World Fantasy Award for a collection of his short fiction. Brad's novels include Wrack & Roll, Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede, and Blackburn. His most recent book is the "coming of middle age" novel Lunatics. If Brad were a rock star, he'd like to be Pete Townshend.

Linda J. Dunn

Linda J. Dunn has been writing professionally since 1991. Her stories have appeared in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy, Analog Science Fiction, Witch Fantastic, 100 Wicked Witches, Castle Fantastic, Alternate Skiffies, and others. By day, Linda tests avionics software for Hughes Technical Services, Indianapolis and at night she attends classes at IUPUI. She and her husband Greg live in Greenfield, Indiana with two teenage children (David and Tonia) and five cats.

Bob Eggleton

Painter extraordinaire Bob Eggleton's space art has graced the covers of many fine SF novels and magazines over the past few years. A collection of Bob's work, Alien Horizons: The Fantastic Art of Bob Eggleton, was a Hugo finalist for Best Non-fiction Book.

Alex Eisenstein

Alex Eisenstein--graphic artist and co-author with his wife, Phyllis Eisenstein--is a regular panelist on film discussions in such places as CapriCon, WindyCon, MiniCon and many others. He has been known to disagree in a loud voice with Bob Blackwood.

Craig E. Engler

Craig E.Engler is the editor and publisher of Science Fiction Weekly, the leading electronic publication covering the world of SF (http://www.scifiweekly.com/). He also works as an online consultant for The Sci-Fi Channel and as the SF "expert editor" for Amazon.com Books. As a journalist, his work has appeared in publications ranging from The New York Times to Wired.

David Feintuch

Dave Feintuch won the John W. Campbell award for best new writer at the 1996 Worldcon. His books include the Nick Seafort series: Midshipman's Hope, Challenger's Hope, Prisoner's Hope, Fisherman's Hope, and Voices of Hope, and his new fantasy The Still. He lives in Michigan in an antique mansion where only his writing room is electronic.

A recovering attorney, Feintuch has also been a professional photographer, an antique dealer, and real estate investor. He has had a lifelong interest in history, and in particular, in the british Navy in the age of sail.

Harold Feld

Harold Feld (SCA: Yaakov HaMizrachi): Graduated from Boston University Law School in 1993 and has since worked as a Judicial clerk, for the federal government, and for the Domain Name Rights coalition, an on-line advocacy group. He starts with Covington & Burling, a Washington D.C. area law firm, almost immediately after LoneStarCon 2. In addition, Harold does semi-professional storytelling (i.e. occasionally he is paid to do what it is normally impossible to prevent him from doing), has been an avid filker for over ten years, and a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) for nearly that long.

Sheila Finch

Sheila Finch's first novel, Infinity's Web, won the Compton Crook award. She has published five science fiction novels, and a sixth serialized on-line in Tomorrow SF. Her science fiction and fantasy short stories include a series about the Guild of Xenolinguists which made its first appearance in the novel Triad. Sheila teaches fiction writing and science fiction at El Camino College in California.

Melanie Fletcher

Melanie Fletcher is an SF writer, graphic artist, and self-appointed Babe Feminist. Her writing credits include "Star Quality" and "Heramaphrodite," from the respective anthologies Selling Venus (Circlet Press, June 1995) and Genderflex (Circlet Press, June 1996). Her art credits include artwork and cover design for the anthology Mind and Body (Circlet Press, June 1997). Currently living in the Netherlands with her husband the Bodacious Brit, she is working on her first SF novel, White Knight, Queen Alice, and is happy to engage in hand-to-hand combat with people who insist that Lewis Carroll took drugs.

Lynn Flewelling

Lynn Flewelling's Luck In The Shadows (Bantam Spectra '96) was chosen by Locus as a Recommended First Novel. The sequel, Stalking Darkness, was published in March 1997 and two more books in the Nightrunner Series are currently under contract. She has conducted writing workshops/seminars for Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, the University of Maine, and various schools.

Flewelling has been, among other things, a teacher, veterinary assistant, necropsy technician, book reviewer, freelance journalist, and novelist. She loves the outdoors, the metaphysical, literature, history, and all things shiny.

Flewelling lives in Bangor, Maine, with her husband and two sons.

Dr. John L. Flynn

I am a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and I have written five books, countless articles, dozens of stories. I write a regular column for Sci-Fi Universe magazine, and I teach one of the few university courses on Science Fiction Writing.

James Alan Gardner

James Alan Gardner has published a number of short stories in such places as Asimov's, Amazing, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and several anthologies. His first novel "Expendable" came out this July and his next "Commitment Hour" is scheduled for next February; both are from Avon. He lives in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada with his wife Linda and two demanding rabbits. In his spare time, he studies kung fu and recovers from bruises.

Steven Gould

Steven Gould is the author of the SF novels Jumper, Wildside, and (forthcoming) Helm, all from Tor Books. He's been nominated for the Hugo twice and the Nebula once. Both Jumper and Wildside were ALA Best Books for Young Adults. Greenwar, a techno-thriller written with Laura J. Mixon is out this year.

Joe Grillot

Joe Grillot is head of film programming at LoneStarCon 2 and a master of film trivia as well as significant facts on motion pictures.

Anne Lesley Groell

Anne Lesley Groell has been working in the field for five years as an editor, and year and a half as an author. After receiving a BA in Biology from Yale University and an MS in Developmental Biology from the University of California at Irvine, she swapped fields and went to work first for Avon Books and then for Bantam. Her first published novel, Anvil of the Sun, was released from Penguin/Roc in 1996. The sequel, Bridge of Valor, followed in 1997. Between editing and writing, she gets very little sleep, but loves what she's doing too much to quit.

William K. Hartmann

Dr. William K. Hartmann published the SF novel, Mars Underground, in 1997. He received a Hugo nomination for his earlier non-fiction book The Grand Tour, with Ron Miller. Hartmann has written several books on space, astronomy, and space art, published by Workman (New York). Mars Underground, published by Tor (New York) is his first novel. Hartmann is also known for his planetary research and is a member of the Mars Global Surveyor science team, and is also known as an astronomical artist. Asteroid 3341 was named for him in recognition of his work.

Teddy Harvia

Teddy Harvia, winner of the Fan Artist Hugo in 1991 and 1995, is best known for his alien WingNuts^TM cartoon characters, created in 1977 and most recently appearing in the LoneStarCon2 progress reports. His other characters include sabertooth Chat, in the U.S. fanzine Mimosa, the goddess Opuntia, in the Canadian fanzine of the same name, and Enid the Echidna, in the Australian fanzine Ethel the Aardvark. A postcard maven he claims to have a collection with a copy of every postcard ever printed, doubtless an exaggeration. His anagrammatic alter ego David Thayer is chairing the Cancun in 2003 WorldCon bid.

Peter J. Heck

Peter Heck is the author of the "Mark Twain Mystery" series. He has worked in the SFF field as editor (Ace Books), reviewer (Asimov's) and all-around freelancer (Waldenbooks, etc.) In his spare time, he plays lead guitar and sings with the Don't Quit Your Day Job Players.

Pamela Hodgson

Pamela Hodgson is a displaced Chicagoan whom Kim Mohan, when editing Amazing, singled out as a writer to watch, saying, "This writer has a tremendous sense of craftsmanship and from what I've seen a marvelous imagination." In addition to Amazing, her short fiction has appeared in F&SF, and assorted anthologies. She is currently completing a novel based on her short story, "The Canterbury Path," (F&SF, Aug. '95).

Ken Jenks

Ken Jenks is the Owner and Editor-in-Chief of Mind's Eye Fiction (http://tale.com/) which publishes short stories by professional authors on the Internet. Mr. Jenks has used computers for 22 years, starting in junior high. He's used the Internet for 13 years. He holds a bachelor's in computer science, a master's in aerospace engineering, and he's still working on his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. He's a private pilot license and a scuba diver. He shares his home in Houston, Texas with a wife, three cats and a Great Dane. He can be reached by e-mail at MindsEye@tale.com.

K. W. Jeter

West Coast writer K. W. Jeter started attracting attention with his first novel, Dr. Adder, and people are still wondering what he'll do next. His SF novels include The Glass Hammer, Death Arms, and Farewell Horizontal, and his horror novels include Dark Seeker and Wolf Flow. His novel Morlock Night is a successful sequel to H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. His most recent book is the controversial Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human, which continues the story started by his friend Philip K. Dick.

Les Johnson

Les Johnson leads NASA's concept definition efforts for future space missions using tethered satellites and is the principal investigator of the Propulsive Small Expendable Deployer System (ProSEDS) tether mission. Prior to joining NASA, Mr. Johnson was employed by General Research Corporation where he helped design Directed Energy Systems as a part of the Strategic Defense Initiative.

Les received his Masters Degree in Physics from Vanderbilt University in 1986 and his Bachelors Degree in Chemistry and Physics from Transylvania University in 1984. He is also a graduate of the International Space University. He has published several papers in various technical journals and has a patent pending for "A Laser Triggered Fiber Optics Neutral Particle Beam (NPB) Neutron Sensor."

He is a long-time science fiction fan and credits the beginning of his interest in physics and space to the Perry Rhodan novels, Star Trek and the successes of the Apollo Program. Les is the NASA Technical Consultant for the new Lost In Space movie being filmed by Shepperton Studios. He lives in Madison, Alabama with his wife Carol, son Carl and daughter Leslie.

John J. Kessel

Writer and scholar John Kessel won a Nebula Award for his novella "Another Orphan", which was part of his doctoral dissertation in English from the University of Kansas. His books include the novels Freedom Beach (written with James Patrick Kelly) and Good News from Outer Space. His short fiction has been collected in Meetings in Infinity. Kessel's latest book is the novel Corrupting Dr. Nice.

Rick Klaw

Richard Klaw first received attention as the managing editor of Blackbird Comics, where he was responsible for Shannon Wheeler's Children With Glue, The Sound of Coming Darkness, and his first anthology Modern Perversity. Since leaving Blackbird, Rick has helped to establish MOJO Press and is currently the managing editor. For MOJO he co-edited the ground breaking, Eisner nominated anthology Weird Business, Moebius' classic western Blueberry, the 30th Anniversary Edition of Michael Moorcock's Behold The Man, the critically acclaimed first novel by Del Stone, Jr. Dead Heat, and many other books. Recently he edited the new Moorcock collection Tales From The Texas Woods. In a recent issue of Locus Ed Bryant had this to say: "Austin's MOJO Press is a leader in the latest wave of ambitious speciality publishers."

Thomas W. Knowles

Thomas W. Knowles has worked as a reporter, photographer, columnist, and news editor, as well as a teacher and a technical editor. His short fiction, technical articles and non-fiction articles, photo-interviews, essays, columns and reviews have appeared in Mystery Scene, New Destinies, Persimmon Hill, Southwest Art, Starlog, The Texas Aggie, Texas Books In Review, Texas Sportsman, and many other newspapers, anthologies and magazines. As a freelance interviewer for national and regional magazines, he's published photo-interviews with many Texas celebrities, including Lyle Lovett, Kinky Friedman, Linda Ellerbee and John Henry Faulk.

Knowles authored and edited a series of three anthologies on the American West published by Random House: the history of the Old West in The West That Was (1993) and the myth of the Wild West in Wild West Show! (1994) (with Joe R. Lansdale), and true-life adventures in the modern West in The Living West (1997). The American Library Association picked Wild West Show! for its 1996 special recommend reading list of the thirty best books about the American West, and the Newbery Library included it in its NEA-sponsored two-year, 44-library exhibition, "The Frontier in American Culture."

He's presently working on two SF novels (one of them set in a fictional Republic of Texas), an exploration of cowboy culture in Cowboy Logic and of Native American culture in Letters from Tonto to Crazy Horse, the official illustrated history of of the Texas Rangers in They Rode for the Lone Star, and a travel guide and history of movies filmed on location in Texas in Shot in Texas.

He's a sometimes member of the Science Fiction Writers of America and the Western Writers of America, a founding member of the the Texas Ranger Heritage Society, and is known as "Captain Jack" to the Brazos Desperados chapter of the Cowboy Action Shootists. Science fiction is his first love, but his interest in the American West stems from his heritage as a fourth-generation Texan who can claim ancestors from both sides of the Comanche-Texas Ranger conflict. He lives in Bryan, Texas, where he often works with the Cub Scouts of America and teaches an occasional writing class at Texas A&M University.

Alexis Glynn Latner

Houston writer Alexis Glynn Latner has become a regular contributor to Analog with her stories of near-future technological extrapolation and its effects on the human condition.

Jacqueline Lichtenberg

The central web site for Jacqueline Lichtenberg's Sime~Gen fandom information is at <URL:http://www.best.com/~shadorat/sg/sgfr.html>

Perrianne Lurie

Perrianne Lurie is the e-mail liaison for BucCONeer, the 1998 Worldcon, where she will also be working on programming. She was a member of the bid committee and edited the bid 'zine, Fenzance Factsheet as well as serving as e-mail liaison. She has been active in fandom since 1979, and has been a member of the con com for Balticon (Green Room, Programming), Disclave (Filk, Program Book, Program Ops), I-Con (NY-Information Desk), and numerous Worldcons (Ops, Program Ops). In real life, she is a physician epidemiologist and the Director of the Communicable Disease Program at the Anne Arundel County, Maryland Department of Health in Annapolis.

Craig Miller

Craig Miller is a writer/producer of television with over fifty produced credits. His projects for this year have included writing two episodes of Showtime's Horror Anthology series "The Hunger" as well as co-creating and co-executive producing "Pocket Dragon Adventures", an animated series based on Real Musgrave's characters debuting this October in North America and the following Spring throughout Europe. He also spent time as a Motion Picture Marketing Consultant on such films as "Star Wars", "The Empire Strikes Back", etc. And, within fandom, he chaired the 1984 World Science Fiction Convention, L.A.con II, and headed the Program Division for last year's Worldcon, L.A.con III.

Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon is a native Texan who grew up south of the King Ranch, has degrees from two Texas universities, and now lives in a small town north of Austin. She has written both science fiction and fantasy, at every length from short-short to "enormous". Her most recent works include Remnant Population and Once a Hero, and stories in anthologies such as Sisters in Fantasy, Chicks in Chainmail, and Women at War. She likes fast horses, dark chocolate, rock-bottomed creeks, and home-made bread.

Michael Moorcock

Guest of Honor Michael Moorcock is well-known for his heroic fantasy series, such as Elric of Melnibone', Warrior of Mars, and Hawkmoon, which featured the recurring character of the Eternal Champion. He also edited New Worlds magazine for many years, during which time he brought many "New Wave" writers

including the likes of J.G. Ballard, Samuel R. Delany, Thomas M. Disch, John T. Sladek, and Norman Spinrad

to the public spotlight. He won the Best Novella Nebula award in 1967 for "Behold the Man," and the 1979 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Gloriana.

Linda Nagata

Linda Nagata is the author of three hard science fiction novels, all published by Bantam since 1995. The Bohr Maker won last year's Locus Award for best first novel. Her other novels include Tech Heaven and Deception Well. Her short fiction has been in Analog and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. She lives in Hawaii.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Patrick Nielsen-Hayden is senior editor and Manager of Science Fiction at Tor Books. He is also editor of the ongoing original anthology series Starlight. He has been an active fan for over two decades; with his wife Teresa Nielsen Hayden, he edited the award-winning fanzine IZZARD and won TAFF in 1985. He and Teresa live in Brooklyn, New York.

Patricia Duffy Novak

Patricia Duffy Novak lives in Alabama, with her husband, Jim, her daughter, Sylvia, one dog, and four cats. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in English, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics. Her short fiction has appeared in Sword and Sorceress, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Adventures of Sword and Sorcery, and various volumes of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover anthologies.

Lawrence Person

Austin writer Lawrence Person's short stories and poetry have been published in Asimov's and in Mike Resnick's Alternate anthologies. His story "Details" made Locus's Annual Recommended Fiction List a couple of years ago. Lawrence has been a major contributor to the criticalzine Nova Express, and he's currently one of the organizers of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop.

Linn Prentis

I'm a fairly new agent, working for myself but with an office at the Virginia Kidd Agency. I also work for the agency. Fiction is what I do, and I have a special interest in SF/Fantasy. Most of my authors

but not all

are fairly new. I handle stories. I've sold a few books and have sales pending.

Katya Reimann

Katya Reimann is the author of the Chronicles of Tielmark, including Wind from a Foreign Sky (hc 1996, sc April 1997, Tor) and A Tremor in the Bitter Earth (forthcoming Winter 1998, Tor) with a third, as yet in its conceptual stages, contracted for the following year. Wind From a Foreign Sky made Locus's 1996 Recommended Reading List, First Novel category. When not writing fantasy novels she plugs away at Pocketclock, a science fiction novel that plagues her by never quite being completed. She was recently nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Katya lives in Cambridge, MA., where she shares ownership of Cheka, a red and white male Basenji

the most catlike of dogs.

Mike Resnick

Writer/editor Mike Resnick has won more awards than we can count for his fiction. His novels include Birthright:The Book of Man, Ivory: A Legend of Past and Future, The Dark Lady: A Romance of the Far Future, and Galactica Discovers Earth. His recent short fiction has been collected in Will the Last Person the Leave the Planet Please Shut Off the Sun? His best-known work is probably the recently-concluded series of Kiranyaga stories set in a science-fictional African society. Resnick's most recent novel is The Widowmaker Reborn.

Carrie Richerson

Austin writer Carrie Richerson has published some wonderful short fiction in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Pulphouse. Carrie is a two-time finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer.

Madeleine E. Robins

Madeleine Robins edits comic books, writes science fiction and fantasy (Holocaust of Stone is forthcoming from Tor) as well as five Regency romances, bakes muffins for PTA bakesales, and is startled to find that she is part of a Major Political Demographic (ie., a Soccer Mom) even though she is not Republican. At all. She lives in New York City with her husband Daniel Caccavo, a recording engineer, and two daughters: Juliana and Rebecca. She is having it all, but wonders where to put it.

Lisa S. Silverthorne

Lisa's short fiction has appeared in Blood Muse, Bending the Landscape, and the Sword & Sorceress anthologies. She is currently working on several novels. Her dream is to become a published novelist. She works as a microcomputer support specialist in a university library system. She shares her home with her feline furpersons: Seville and Marshall.

Martha Soukup

Martha writes stories, several dozen over the past decade. Four have been nominated for Hugos; one, "A Defense of the Social Contracts", won a Nebula. As she writes this, she thinks her collection has been published for Worldcon: check at the DreamHaven table in the dealers' room. In addition to publishing stories for odd adults and odder kids (check A Nightmare's Dozen or A Starfarer's Dozen from Harcourt for the latter, she might just be working on some short middle-grades books.

Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor, and critic, was born in 1954. He has written six science fiction novels and two short story collections. He edited Mirrorshades The Cyberpunk Anthology. He also wrote the nonfiction book The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (1992). He has written regular columns on popular science and literary criticism for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Interzone, and Science Fiction Eye. Sterling is on the board of directors of EFF-Austin, a local Texan electronic civil liberties group. He lives in Austin with his wife and two daughters.

Sean Stewart

Hot new writer Sean Stewart lays strong claim to the title of "best SF writer born in Lubbock". He's actually spent most of his life in Canada, but he moved back to Texas (Houston, to be precise) recently to our delight. Sean has made a name for himself by writing several very good but different novels over the past couple of years. His books include Passion Play (Aurora winner), Nobody's Son (another Aurora winner), and Resurrection Man. His newest novel is Clouds End.

Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick's Stations Of The Tide was honored with the Nebula Award in 1992. "The Edge of the World" received the Theodore Sturgeon Award in 1989. Just this year his story "Radio Waves" won the World Fantasy Award. His books include In The Drift, Vacuum Flowers, Griffin's Egg, Stations Of The Tide, The Iron Dragon's Daughter, and a short story collection, Gravity's Angels. Another collection, A Geography Of Unknown Lands is currently available from Tiger Eyes Press. His new novel, Jack Faust, has just been published by Avon Books.

Roy Tackett

Fan Guest of Honor Roy Tackett is a member of First Fandom. He single-handedly founded Albuquerque fandom, and is generally regarded as the Godfather of the extensive New Mexico SF community. More than all that, he's also the person responsible for unleashing Robert Vardeman onto the SF community. A contributor to FAPA [Fantasy Amateur Press Association], the world's oldest APA, he also pubs Dynatron. More information is available about Roy Tackett.

Mark W. Tiedemann

I began writing as a child by doing my own comic books. I took up the camera in high school and worked as a professional photographer for over 20 years. I took up writing about the time I met my partner, Donna, and have been working at it ever since. I attended Clarion in 1988 and made my first pro sale in 1989, to Asimov's. I have subsequently sold and/or published about 30 short stories. I have sold three novels to White Wolf Publishing. I write fulltime and pursue my other interests "on the side".

Denise Vitola

Denise Vitola is the author of several science fiction novels and short stories. Her current series for Berkley-ACE is a futuristic crime/mystery story that features Detective Ty Merrick. The newest novel in this five book series is Opalite Moon. Her next novel, Manjinn Moon will appear in April, 1998.

Sage Walker

Southwestern SF writer Sage Walker has contributed to the Wild Cards series. Her first novel Whiteout, a virtual reality thriller, recently won the Locus Award for Best First Novel.

Don Webb

Austin writer/guru Don Webb has created an immense and diverse body of work in short fiction of all imaginable categories. A "typical" piece for him is "Paradise Lost", a first contact/deal with the devil/Adam and Eve story. His short fiction collections include Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book and A Spell for the Fulfillment of Desire.

Martha Wells

College Station resident and new homeowner Martha Wells's first novel, The Element of Fire, was a finalist for the 1993 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award and a runner-up for the 1994 Crawford Award. The paperback edition of her second novel, the science fantasy City of Bones, is just out in bookstores. She is currently working on a novel set in the same world The Element of Fire, but in a different era with different characters. Martha's favorite things are her cats, her husband, and MST3K.

K. D. Wentworth

Oklahoma writer K. D. Wentworth won the Writers of the Future Contest in 1988, and since then she's been on a roll. She's published over thirty short stories in a variety of genres. Del Rey Discovery has published her novels The Imperium Game, Moonspeaker, and House of Moons. She attributes her success to having a very large dog and a wonderful husband, not necessarily in that order.

Rick Wilber

Rick Wilber's short stories and poems are found in Asimov's, Analog, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Science Fiction Age and a variety of other magazines and anthologies. He teaches journalism and fiction writing at the University of South Florida, writes textbooks and trade books on writing fiction and non-fiction, edits Fiction Quarterly for The Tampa Tribune, writes a sf/f review column for the St. Petersburg Times, and is Administrator of the Isaac Asimov Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing in Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Walter Jon Williams

Walter Jon Williams and Susan Lucci are in a dead heat for the number of awards each has been nominated for without winning. He expects to pull ahead one of these days. His latest work is City On Fire, in which things blow up real good.

J. Steven York

J. Steven York makes things up for a living. His writing credits include two non-fiction books, hundreds of non-fiction articles, and short stories appearing in publications such as Analog, Science Fiction Review, VB Tech, Tomorrow, F&SF, and anthologies such as Nanodreams and The Ultimate X-Men. He was a contributing writer on the Sierra computer game Missionforce Cyberstorm, and has contributed over 300 pages of original science fiction to the upcoming Sierra space-colony simulation game OUTPOST 2. For reasons not entirely clear to him, his story Hunter's Dawn is required reading in some Australian high-schools. Upcoming projects include a novel based on the GENERATION-X Marvel comic, several original novels, and more computer games. His hobbies include model and amateur rocketry, and expanding his collection of over four-hundred toy robots. He lives in Eugene, Oregon with his wife Chris and a large, stupid, dog named Myrtle.

Sarah Zettel

Sarah Zettel started writing fiction in fourth grade and never stopped. Her obsession has followed her through ten cities, four states, two countries and one university, where she received a B.A. in communications. Her short fiction has appeared most recently in Analog. Her first novel, Reclamation, was nominated for the Phillip K. Dick Award for distinguished SF. She is currently at work on her third SF novel.

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