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BASU, Samit
Samit Basu is a 30-year-old Indian writer of novels, short stories, comics and screenplays.
He has written three epic/adventure fantasy novels, The Simoqin Prophecies which was published by Penguin India in 2003, by Ordbilder Sweden in 2005 and in Germany by Piper Verlag in2006 – The Manticore’s Secret, published by Penguin India in 2005 and The Unwaba Revelations, published by Penguin India, 2007. These were the first works of fantasy by an Indian in English and were all bestsellers in India. Read the rest of this entry »
BLAYLOCK, James P.
Jim Blaylock’s credentials and achievements are almost too many to list! He is the author of nearly twenty published novels and numerous shorter works. His 1978 story ‘The Ape-Box Affair’ is acknowledged as the first Steampunk story and the many further adventures of his much loved character Langdon St. Ives, in both shorter and longer forms (notably in the Philip K. Dick Award winning novel HOMUNCULUS and LORD KELVIN’S MACHINE) have made him the central figure in the original Steampunk triptych alongside Tim Powers (also represented by Zeno in the UK) and K.W. Jeter. He continues to collaborate with Powers, maintaining a partnership that has lasted since the two met in college back in the mid-70s and one only occasionally hampered by the interference of William Ashbless.
BOULTON, Susan J
Susan J. Boulton, like the song by The Police says, was Born in the 50′s, and has the unusual distinction of arriving into this world 200 yards from where, 37 years before, Tolkien spent time thinking about hobbits.
She has lived all her life in rural Staffordshire, and has a passion for the countryside, its history, myths and legends, all of which influence her work. Married with two grown up daughters, Susan now puts her over-active imagination (once the bane of both her parents and teachers) to good use in her writing. Read the rest of this entry »
BRETT, Peter V
United Kingdom and British Commonwealth only: Represented in these territories on behalf of Jabberwocky Literary Agency.
Raised on a steady diet of fantasy novels, comic books, and ‘Dungeons & Dragons’, Peter V. Brett (“Peat” to his friends) has been writing fantasy stories for as long as he can remember. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Art History from the University at Buffalo in 1995, and then spent over a decade in pharmaceutical publishing before returning to his bliss. His début novel, The Painted Man (AKA The Warded Man in the US) was published in the UK (HarperCollins Voyager) in September 2008 to fantastic critical acclaim and was named one of Amazon.co.uk’s 10 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels of 2008, and has been nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy, and the series has (so far) sold to Germany, France, Greece, Japan, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Spain, and Portugal. Read the rest of this entry »
de BODARD, Aliette
Aliette de Bodard is a Computer Engineer who moonlights as a speculative fiction writer in her spare time. She graduated in 2007 from Ecole Polytechnique, one of France’s top engineering schools, and went on to find a job which involved two of her loves, mathematics and programming computers.
She was already writing science fiction and fantasy short stories during her studies, though it took her a few years to get them published. She won Second Place in Writers of the Future in 2006.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in places such as Interzone, Black Static, and Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. She currently lives in Paris… Read the rest of this entry »