Lauren Beukes
"Slipping"
Lauren Beukes lives in Cape Town,
South Africa. She’s the author of The
Shining Girls, about a time-traveling
serial killer; Zoo City, a phantasmagorical
noir set in Johannesburg;
and the neo-political thriller Moxyland.
She’s also written a best-selling
comic, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom.
Her new book is Broken Monsters,
set in Detroit.
Christopher Brown
"Countermeasures"
Christopher Brown writes science fiction
and criticism in Austin, Texas,
where he also practices technology
law. His stories frequently focus on
issues at the nexus of technology, politics,
and economics. He was a 2013
World Fantasy Award nominee for the
anthology he coedited, Three Messages
and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican
Short Stories of the Fantastic.
Pat Cadigan
"Business as Usual"
Pat Cadigan is the author of 15 books,
including two nonfiction books,
a young adult novel, and the two
Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning
novels Synners and Fools. She has
also won the Locus Award three
times, as well as the Hugo Award.
She lives in North London with her
husband, the Original Chris Fowler.
Cory Doctorow
"Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts"
Cory Doctorow, a science fiction
author, activist, journalist, and blogger,
is the coeditor of Boing Boing
(boingboing.net) and the author of
the bestselling novel Little Brother.
His latest young adult novel is Homeland,
and his latest novel for adults is
Rapture of the Nerds.
Warren Ellis
"The Shipping Forecast"
Warren Ellis is an author, graphic novelist,
and columnist. His new novel,
Gun Machine, was a New York Times
best-seller and is being developed
for television. The Red films, starring
Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren,
were based on his graphic novel of
the same name. His next books are a
novella, Normal, and a graphic novel
series, Trees.
Joel Garreau
"Persona"
Joel Garreau, the author of Radical
Evolution: The Promise and
Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our
Bodies—And What It Means to Be
Human and a former long-time
reporter and editor at the Washington
Post, is the Lincoln Professor of Law,
Culture, and Values at Arizona State
University, where he has found alter
egos who collaborated on this tale.
William Gibson
"Death Cookie/Easy Ice"
William Gibson, born in South Carolina,
has lived in Vancouver since
1972. He is the author of nine novels
and coauthor (with Bruce Sterling)
of one. His most recent book, Distrust
That Particular Flavor, collects
his nonfiction. His tenth novel, The
Peripheral, will be published by Penguin
in November.
Paul Graham Raven
"Los Piratas del Mar de Plastico (Pirates of the Plastic Ocean)"
Paul Graham Raven is a postgraduate
researcher in infrastructural futures
at the University of Sheffield. He’s
also a writer, science fiction critic,
and essayist, as well as a persistent
gadfly in the futurological ointment.
He lives a stone’s throw from the
site of the Battle of Orgreave, with a
duplicitous cat and three guitars he
can barely play.
John Schoenherr
"Gallery"
John Schoenherr (1935–2010) was an
American artist and illustrator who
is widely known for being the first to
depict the world of Frank Herbert’s
Dune. A highly accomplished naturalist
painter, he created exquisitely
detailed work that appeared on the
covers of scores of book jackets and
magazines over the course of his
50-year career. He won the Hugo
Award for Best Artist in 1965 and a
Caldecott Medal for children’s book
illustration in 1988.
Bruce Sterling
"199 The Various Mansions of the Universe"
Bruce Sterling, author, journalist,
editor, and critic, was born in 1954.
Best known for his 10 science fiction
novels, he unites his time among
the cities of Austin, Belgrade, and
Torino. His nonfiction works include
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and
Disorder on the Electric Frontier,
Tomorrow Now: Envisioning
the Next Fifty Years, and Shaping
Things.
Peter Swirski
"At Home in the Cosmos"
Listed in Canadian Who’s Who, Peter
Swirski is an authority on contemporary
literary culture, including popular
culture and digital culture. He is
also recognized as the world’s leading
critic on Stanislaw Lem. He has
written 14 acclaimed books, including
the best-selling From Lowbrow to
Nobrow; Ars Americana, Ars Politica;
and From Literature to Biterature:
Lem, Turing, Darwin.
