The multi-award winning author of The Light Ages, House of Storms, The Great Wheel and a host of short stories and novellas, Ian R. Macleod has become one of the most distinctive and exciting voices in British science fiction – a fact born out by his most recent novel Song of Time (PS Publishing) winning the 2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award… Read the rest of this entry »
Born in Manchester and raised in Northern Ireland (where he still lives) Ian McDonald is an award winning Science Fiction author. His novels include Brasyl (2007), River of Gods (2004), Ares Express (2001), Kirinya (1998) and Desolation Road (1988) and he been extensively published all over the world.
Ian is also also a prolific writer of novellas and short fiction and his work has appeared in many anthologies and collections.
Amongst the many accolades he has received for his fiction are the BSFA award (in both the novel and short fiction categories), the Philip K. Dick award, the Hugo award, Read the rest of this entry »
John McHugo is an Arabist, international lawyer and former academic researcher into Sufism who is well known in political, legal, cultural and trade circles concerned with relations between the West and the Arab World.
He is a member of the Executive of the Council for Arab British Understanding (CAABU), the Chair of Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine, and a director of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce.
While a partner in the Law Firm Trowers & Hamlins, he specialised in boundary disputes between Arab countries, and latterly in the international law issues affecting Israel and its neighbours. Read the rest of this entry »
John Meaney is the author of six novels, most recently Bone Song (2007, Gollancz) and Dark Blood (2008, Gollancz, and published by Bantam Spectra in the US under the title Black Blood) – gothic science fiction/suspense set in the city of Tristopolis beneath always-indigo skies, where energy comes from necroflux reactor piles containing the bones of the dead. Lieutenant Donal Riordan is a hardbitten cop with a wraith and a zombie among his colleagues, dark mages among his enemies, surrounded by conspiracy.
Meaney’s first novel, To Hold Infinity (1998), was one of the Daily Telegraph Books of the Year (1st choice in SF/Fantasy), and it was followed by the Nulapeiron sequence of Paradox (2000, Independent Publishers Book of the Year, SF/Fantasy category), Context (2001) and Resolution (2005) .
His short fiction has appeared in Interzone magazine and various ‘best of year’ anthologies. He has been shortlisted three times for the BSFA Award. Read the rest of this entry »
Susana Medina is currently writing Spinning Days of Night, which has been awarded a substantial Arts Council Writing Grant (February 2008). She is the author of Cuentos Rojos (Red Tales, 1997) which includes the Max Aub International Short Story Prize, the acclaimed poetry collection Souvenirs del Accidente (2004) and Philosophical Toys (2007), her first novel in English – an offspring from which is the highly praised short film Buñuel’s Philosophical Toys (24 mins), shown internationally. During the summer 2008, she serialised Philosophical Toys in MySpace and Facebook, to great acclaim.
Susana’s literary work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines and has been translated into several languages. She has always written across a number of art forms, being interested in the gaps between the arts, genres and disciplines, the playful and the dead serious… Read the rest of this entry »
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Elizabeth Moon was born March 7, 1945, and grew up in McAllen, Texas, graduating from McAllen High School in 1963. She has a B.A. in History from Rice University (1968) and another in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin (1975) with graduate work in Biology at the University of Texas, San Antonio.
She served in the USMC from 1968 to 1971, first at MCB Quantico and then at HQMC. She married Richard Moon, a Rice classmate and Army officer, in 1969; they moved to the small central Texas town where they still live in 1979. They have one son, born in 1983. Read the rest of this entry »
Victoria Mosley is a poet and spoken word artist. She has published two poetry collections – The Dry Season (1998) and Crazy Love (2002) . Her third collection As in a Dream by Victoria Mosley and The Sublimes was released on CD in 2004 and is available to listen to free online here.
She runs events and club nights in London and beyond, from the Groucho Club to the ICA, Austin Texas to Indonesia, from Jazz nights and Charity Events to new bands. She has worked for the British Council in Surabaya and in Canada, has produced and presented her own radio shows… Read the rest of this entry »