| MIKE W. BARR has contributed to some of pop culture's most enduring series, including Sherlock Holmes, Ellery Queen, Star Trek, Star Wars, Doc Savage, The Shadow and Batman. He's also created some, including the comic book series Camelot 3000, Batman and the Outsiders, The Maze Agency and Mantra. In 2003 he published the Star Trek novel Gemini. He is currently marketing an original fantasy novel and he has written a book on science fiction comic books of the Silver Age, to be published by TwoMorrows. He lives in a house with too many cats and not enough books.
LEE BATTERSBY is the multiple award-winning author of over fifty stories, many of which have been collected in Through Soft Air (Prime Books, 2006). He lives in Perth, Western Australia, with his wife, writer Lyn Battersby, a bunch of kids and a house full of weird things.
GARY A. BRAUNBECK is the author of nearly 200 published short stories, as well as ten short-story collections and nine novels. His most recent novel, Mr Hands, is set for release in September 2007 from Leisure Books. Gary's work has been the recipient of three Shocklines ‘Shocker’ awards, two Bram Stoker Awards, and an International Horror Guild Award.
PAUL CRILLEY is a Scot living in South Africa with his partner and their two-year-old daughter, Isabella-Rose. He has been published in over ten anthologies, and also writes for South African television. His first novel, Night of the Long Shadows, comes out in May from Wizards of the Coast.
KEITH R. A. DeCANDIDO's previous Doctor Who fiction includes UNITed We Fall in Decalog 3: Consequences, and Raymond's Room in the charity anthology Missing Pieces. Keith has written novels, novellas, eBooks, short stories, comics, and essays in the universes of Star Trek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Supernatural, Serenity, Command and Conquer 3, Resident Evil, Marvel Comics, and more. He's also an editor, in charge of the monthly Star Trek eBook line, and a veteran anthologist, responsible for the forthcoming Big Finish Short Trips volume The Quality of Leadership.
STEPHEN DEDMAN is the author of The Art of Arrow Cutting, Shadows Bite, A Fistful of Data, Foreign Bodies, and more than 100 short stories. He has, at various times, been an actor, book reviewer, game designer, creative writing tutor, manager of a science fiction bookshop, fiction editor of Borderlands magazine, editorial assistant for Australian Physicist magazine, experimental subject, and used dinosaur parts salesman. He lives in Western Australia, and always hoped that his Doctor Who Technical Manual would come in useful someday.
PAUL FINCH, ex-police officer and journalist, is now a full-time TV and movie scriptwriter. He cut his literary teeth penning episodes of ITV's popular crime drama, The Bill, but he's no stranger to prose either. To date, he has had five books and nearly 300 stories and novellas published on both sides of the Atlantic, mostly in the horror, fantasy and sci-fi fields. His first collection, Aftershocks, won the British Fantasy Award for 2002, while his novel Cape Wrath was short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award that same year. He is currently working on three horror movies, including a big screen adaptation of Cape Wrath. Paul lives in Lancashire, northern England, with his wife Cathy and his two children, Eleanor and Harry.
ROBERT HOOD, who lives in Wollongong, Australia, has written many science fiction and horror stories since he saw his first Doctor Who episode in 1963. After a sporadic apprenticeship of a decade or so, these stories began to appear in magazines and anthologies in Australia and elsewhere, and have continued to do so ever since. Many of them can be found in the collections Day-dreaming on Company Time, Immaterial: Ghost Stories and the forthcoming Creeping in Reptile Flesh. Other books include the novel Backstreets and the Shades series of supernatural thrillers. He also co-edited Daikaiju!: Giant Monster Tales.
BRIAN KEENE's books include Ghoul, The Rising, City of the Dead, The Conqueror Worms, Terminal and many more, several of which are slated for film and video game adaptations. His short stories have been adapted into graphic novel format. Keene lives in the backwoods of Pennsylvania with his wife and dog (who is almost as cool as K-9).
KEVIN KILLIANY lives in Wilmington, on the coast of North Carolina, with Valerie, his wife of over a quarter century, and their three children. His Star Trek credits include three appearances in Strange New Worlds anthologies and two volumes of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers e-book series (Orphans, included in the Grand Designs compilation, and Honor). Kevin also writes source book and web content for FanPro and WizKids Games. Wolf Hunters, his first novel, was published by Roc in November 2006. When not writing, Kevin is a case manager with a community services agency and a minister. He is currently working on his second novel.
MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL is a professional puppeteer who moonlights as a writer. Originally from North Carolina, she lives in New York or Iceland. She owns a marionette, built in 1938 by the National Marionette Theatre of Prague, and used its face for this story. Mrs Kowal is a graduate of Orson Scott Card's Literary Boot Camp and on the editorial board of Shimmer magazine. Her short fiction appears in Cosmos, Strange Horizons and Cicada.
PAUL KUPPERBERG is the author of the novels Crime Campaign, Murdermoon, and JSA: Ragnarok, the Star Trek S.C.E. novella Sargasso Sector, and the young adult novels Wishbone Mysteries: The Sirian Conspiracy (with Michael Jan Friedman), Hey, Sophie!, and Powerpuff Girls: Buttercup's Terrible Temper Tantrum. He has also written over 700 comic book stories for characters as Superman Vigilante, Power Girl, Masters of the Universe, and dozens more and created the comics Arion Lord of Atlantis, Checkmate, and Takion, in addition to having written on-line web animation, the syndicated Superman and Tom & Jerry newspaper strips, the feature Trash for England's 2000 A.D. magazine, humor and parody for Marvel's Crazy Magazine, coloring books, short stories for various fantasy and horror anthologies, and more than a dozen young adult non-fiction books on subjects ranging from history and science to biography and pop culture. By day, Paul is senior editor of Weekly World News. He lives in Connecticut with his wife Robin and son Max.
STEVE LOCKLEY and PAUL LEWIS have been writing together for more than ten years. They are the authors of the novel The Ragchild and the novellas King of All The Dead and The Ice Maiden. They have also written dozens of short stories and a novel for children, The Quarry. They are currently completing a horror novel for teenage readers, The Bloodstone, and are trying to find the time to work on other stories, novellas and novels. They live with their families in Wales. This is their first Doctor Who story but hope it won't be their last.
TODD McCAFFREY, the son of fantasy author Anne McCaffrey, is a science fiction. He started the continuation of his mother’s best-selling Dragonriders of Pern range in 2003, and now contributes solo novels to the series. Todd has worked as a computer programmer, published serveral short stories and written other original pieces.
JAMES A. MOORE is the author of over a dozen novels, including the Serenity Falls trilogy and most recently Harvest Moon. Before getting to work on his novels, he did a few stories for Marvel Comics and more than a few supplements for White Wolf Games series of roleplaying games. He lives in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife Bonnie.
STEL PAVLOU makes stuff up for a living. So far he’s made up two novels, Decipher and Gene; a movie, The 51st State; some short stories; and a collection of other noodlings. This is the third time he’s made something up for Doctor Who. You’d think they’d know better by now. Stel is currently adapting Rendezvous With Rama for Morgan Freeman and David Fincher.
CHRIS ROBERSON’s short fiction can be found in the anthologies Live Without a Net, The Many Faces of Van Helsing, Tales of the Shadowmen, Vols. 1 and 2, FutureShocks and Forbidden Planets, as well as in the pages of Asimov's, Postscripts and Subterranean Magazine. His novels include Here, There & Everywhere, The Voyage of Night Shining White and Paragaea: A Planetary Romance, and he is the editor of the anthology Adventure Vol. 1. Roberson has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and twice for the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History Short Form (winning in 2004 with his story O One).
STEVEN SAVILE (editor) has edited a number of critically acclaimed anthologies and collections, including Redbrick Eden and, most recently, Elemental for Tor Books in the US, as well as Smoke Ghost & Other Apparitions and Black Gondolier and Other Stories, the collected horror stories of Fritz Leiber. Steven is also the author of the Von Carstein Vampire trilogy, Inheritance, Dominion and Retribution, set in Games Workshop's popular Warhammer world, and has re-imagined the blood-thirsty celtic barbarian Slaine from 2000 AD in a new trilogy of novels for Black Flame. Steven has written for Star Wars and Jurassic Park as well as his own novels and short stories, including Houdini's Last Illusion (Telos) and Angel Road (Elastic Press). He was a runner up in the British Fantasy Awards, and a winner of a Writers of the Future Award in 2002.
LUCY A. SNYDER's writing has appeared in publications such as Farthing, Masques V, Chiaroscuro, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and Strange Horizons. She is also the author of Sparks and Shadows from HW Press.
JAMES SWALLOW is a novelist and scriptwriter, creator of the Sundowners series of streampunk westerns and the only British writer to have worked on a Star Trek television series. His credits include the Doctor Who audio drama Singularity, the 2000 AD plays Dreddline, Jihad, Grud is Dead and Space 1889: The Steppes of Thoth. His short fiction appears in the Short Trips collections Dalek Empire and Snapshots, and the Bernice Summerfield anthologies Something Changed and Collected Works.
BEV VINCENT's first book, The Road to the Dark Tower (NAL, 2004), an authorised companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and has published over forty short stories in magazines and anthologies, such as All Hallows, A Dark and Deadly Valley, From the Borderlands, Blue Religion (edited by Michael Connelly), Into the Dreamlands, and Apex Digest. His script for the short film Stephen King's Gotham Café won Best Adaptation at The International Horror and Sci-Fi Festival.
TIM WAGGONER's novels include Forge of the Mind Slayers, Darkness Wakes, Pandora Drive, The Thieves of Blood, the Godfire duology, Like Death, and A Nightmare on Elm Street: Protégé. He's published close to eighty short stories, some of them collected in All Too Surreal. His articles on writing have appeared in Writer's Digest, Writers' Journal, and other publications. He teaches creative writing at Sinclair Community College and is a faculty mentor in Seton Hill University's Master of Arts in Writing Popular Fiction program.
SEAN WILLIAMS writes for adults, young adults and children, and is the author of over sixty published short stories and twenty-two novels, including The Hanging Mountains, The Resurrected Man and Saturn Returns. His uniquely Australian fantasies have drawn comparisons to China Miéville, Neil Gaiman and Ursula K. Le Guin, while his space opera collaborations with Shane Dix earned them the title of ‘Niven and Pournelle of the twenty-first century’ from scifi.com. Multiple winner of Australia's speculative fiction awards, New York Times-bestseller and judge of the Writers of the Future Contest, he lives with his family in Adelaide, South Australia. |