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Myke Cole is the author of the SHADOW OPS military fantasy series. The first book, CONTROL POINT will be published in the United States by Ace (Penguin) in February 2012, and by Headline (Hachette) in the UK in summer of 2012. As a secu­rity con­tractor, gov­ern­ment civilian and mil­i­tary officer, Myke Cole’s career has run the gamut from Coun­tert­er­rorism to Cyber War­fare to Fed­eral Law Enforcement…

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Ian Tregillis was born and raised in the United States, where his parents had settled after fleeing the wrath of a Flemish prince. (The full story involves a stolen horse, or so he’s been told.) He attended the University of Minnesota, where he received a Ph.D. in physics for his research on radio galaxies and quasars. After finishing his thesis, he moved to the American Southwest just as soon as he found a group of people willing to hire him. He’s still a bit surprised by this because he has no useful skills.

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Kari Sperring grew up dreaming of joining the musketeers and saving France, only to discover that the company had been disbanded in 1776 and anyway never admitted women. Disappointed, instead she studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge University, going on to do a PhD in the same department about 11th century Welsh foreign policy (yes, really). Read the rest of this entry »

David Tallerman was born and raised in the northeast of England.  A long and confused period of education ended with an MA dissertation on the literary history of seventeenth century witchcraft that somehow incorporated references to both Kate Bush and H P Lovecraft.

Needless to say, this didn’t have a great impact on subsequent jobs as a cucumber packer, telephone interviewer and civil servant, and it was only when he sidestepped into the world of computing that David’s study of the dark arts really began to pay off.  He currently roams the UK as an itinerant IT Technician-for-hire, applying theories of animism and sympathetic magic to computer repair and taking devoted care of his bonsai tree familiar. Read the rest of this entry »

James Maxey started his first novel at age seven, a sea-spanning tale of ghosts and pirates. He only managed to get about 100 words in before encountering his first case of writer’s block. He’s now a bit more proficient at finishing what he’s started, having gone on to publish over a dozen short stories in Asimov’s, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and numerous anthologies.

His four novels to date are the cult-classic superhero tale NOBODY GETS THE GIRL and the Dragon Age trilogy of BITTERWOOD, DRAGONFORGE, and DRAGONSEED. Read the rest of this entry »

Poet, novelist, performer and professional Tarot Card reader, Naomi Foyle was born in London, grew up in Hong Kong, Liverpool and Saskatchewan, and after a decade of globetrotting, now lives in Brighton.

Her writing, which often draws on her peripatetic past, is motivated by the paradoxical desire to both expose painful truths and celebrate the intense sensual beauty of life. Read the rest of this entry »

Anne Lyle was born in what is known to the tourist industry as ‘Robin Hood Country’, and grew up fascinated by English history, folklore, and swashbuckling heroes.

Unfortunately there was little demand in 1970s Nottinghamshire for diminutive swordswomen, so she studied sensible subjects like science and languages instead. She now lives in Cambridge, where she works as a web developer for one of the world’s largest medical charities Read the rest of this entry »

John Owen Theobald is an author and researcher. Born and raised in Eastern Canada, he moved to the UK to study the poetry of Keats, and in 2009 received a PhD from the University of St. Andrews.

His first novel, THE DESERTERS’ ORCHESTRA tells the remarkable story of three Russian musicians who helped win a war. Set in 1941 Leningrad, this novel explores how they endured the deadliest siege in history and found themselves in the makeshift orchestra premiering Shostakovich’s defiant Seventh Symphony – broadcast across the city, the country, and directly into the trenches of the surrounding German soldiers. Read the rest of this entry »

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JOHN HEMRY (who writes as Jack Campbell) is a retired US Navy officer and a graduate of the US Naval Academy. At the USNA, he majored in International Relations and lettered in fencing. On his first berth, the USS Spruance, he served first as Gunnery Officer and later as Navigator/Administrative Officer, with collateral duties including Ship’s Legal Officer. He later moved into naval intelligence and the newly-created Navy Anti-Terrorist Alert Center, where he worked in collaboration with the other services and the Joint Chiefs. He eventually returned to sea duty in the Western Pacific before concluding his career with another stint at the Pentagon, broadening his expertise through service as an action officer for operational plans, interfacing not only with the other services but with diplomatic communities as well. He received numerous awards and decorations for his service, before the end of the Cold War provided an opportunity for early retirement in 1994, twenty years after his entrance into the Naval Academy. Read the rest of this entry »

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.

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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 »

Born in Liverpool, Matthew Hughes moved with his family to Canada when he was just five years old and in his own words “I’ve made my living as a writer all of my adult life, first as a journalist, then as a staff speechwriter to the Canadian Ministers of Justice and Environment, and — from 1979 until a few years back– as a freelance corporate and political speechwriter in British Columbia. I am a former director of the Federation of British Columbia Writers and I used to belong to Mensa Canada, but these days I’m conserving my energies to write fiction.” Read the rest of this entry »

Ben Aaronovitch was born and raised in London and all his work has reflected his abiding fascination and love for what he modestly likes to refer to as the ‘Capital of the World’.

In his youth he wrote for Doctor Who (his ‘Remembrance of the Daleks‘ is regarded as a classic by many) Casualty and the late lamented space soap Jupiter Moon – a show so low budget that you were only allowed seven of the regular cast in any given episode! Read the rest of this entry »

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 »