Cast of Contributors
Paul J. Nahin is professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the University of New Hampshire. In his retirement he writes math/history books for Princeton University Press; his newest book, Number-Crunching, will be published in 2011 (it reprints his Omni Magazine time travel story “Newton’s Gift,” describing what happens after a time traveler gives Isaac Newton a modern pocket calculator). During the 1970s and 1980s he wrote more than two dozen short stories that appeared in Analog, Omni, and Twilight Zone magazines. His story “The Man in the Gray Weapons Suit” appeared in the first volume (Thor’s Hammer) of the three-volume anthology The Future at War. His 1997 Writer’s Digest book Time Travel: a writer’s guide to the real science of plausible time travel, will be reprinted in 2011 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. He is an avid Xbox360 player, and currently he is holding his own in the time travel video game Singularity (although he did only just barely survive the boss fight with the train monster).
Peter Clines is the author of Ex-Heroes and numerous pieces of short fiction which can be found in Cthulhu Unbound 2, The World is Dead, The Harrow, Timelines, and the upcoming Morons Guide to the Inevitable Zombocalypse. He grew up in the Stephen King fallout zone of Maine and started writing science fiction and fantasy stories at the age of eight. He made his first writing sale at age seventeen and the first screenplay he wrote got him an open door to pitch story ideas at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Voyager. After working in the film and television industry for almost fifteen years, he currently writes articles and reviews for Creative Screenwriting Magazine and its free CS Weekly online newsletter. He currently lives and writes somewhere in southern California. http://thoth-amon.blogspot.com/
Michael Scott Bricker has sold stories to numerous anthologies, and has recently completed a time travel novel which takes place, in part, during the Black Death . He lives in California, where he works at a public library, and buys and sells old and curious goods.
http://sff.net/people/m.bricker/
Harper Hull was born and raised in Northern England but now lives in a 19th century farmhouse in the American South with his much smarter and prettier Dixie wife. He has lived in London, San Antonio and Seattle and his favourite city is Florence. He grew up in a home crammed with classic sci-fi and horror books, and started writing his own stories in 2009. If you ever read one of his pieces, he just hopes you enjoy it.
http://helloharperhull.blogspot.com/
Victorya was named Miss Luna Landing runner-up 1969, Miss Garlic Festival 1977, and Miss Construed 1999. She likes to make up her biographies. Her work can also be seen in War of the Worlds: Frontlines (An NFP anthology), Necrotic Tissue, Shroud Magazine and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. That part’s true.
John Medaille has been published in Pseudopod, Everyday Weirdness and the Three-Lobed Burning Eye. He is currently working on a short story collection called:
Hideous Tales of Doomed Spacemen, Demonic Cameras, Protoplasmic
Flesh-Eaters, The Supernatural, U.F.O.s, Interdimensional Beasts,
Evil Children, Misunderstood Robots, Telephone Calls
from Beyond the Grave, Mayhem, Murder
AND THE MACABRE!
Vincent L. Scarsella I have gained modest success in publishing my work in print magazines such as The Leading Edge, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, Fictitious Force. Several of my short stories have appeared in the online zine, Aphelion-Webzine, as recently as March 2009 (“Simulation Addicts”). In September, 2007, my short story, “Vice Cop” was included in the anthology, New Writings in the Fantastic, from Pendragon Press edited by award winning John Grant. In March 2008, my story, “Practical Time Travel,” was published in Bound For Evil - Books Gone Bad, by Dead Letter Press . Another story, “Homeless Zombies,” appeared in the April 2009 anthology, Dead Science, by Coscom Entertainment. My short story, “Killers,” was also selected for the companion volume to Timeliness, War of the Worlds: Frontlines, being published by Northern Frights Publishing.
I have been an attorney for thirty years, am an adjunct professor at the University of Buffalo School of Law, and am currently employed as an investigative lawyer for the New York Department of Taxation and Finance. I have self-published a non-fiction book, The Human Manifesto: A General Plan For Human Survival, a self-help book for humanity, which can be purchased at: http://www.thehumanmanifestobook.com
Ruthanna Emrys lives in Chicago with her wife, three neurotic cats, and a relatively stable boa constrictor. Her work has previously appeared in Analog and Strange Horizons. http://ashnistrike.livejournal.com
Derek J. Goodman is the author of The Apocalypse Shift from Library of Horror Press and Machina from M-Brane Press. His stories have also appeared in publications such as Zombology II, Nossa Morte, and Letters From the Dead. He currently lives in Wisconsin.
Eric Ian Steele is a produced screenwriter from Manchester, England. His sci-fi/action feature, Clonehunter was released by Pandora Machine Films on DVD in North America and Canada in August 2010. He has three more features optioned in Los Angeles and Europe, and is represented by Sue Giordano of the Hudson Agency in New York. As well as having several short films in production across the United States, he has had short stories published in anthologies such as POW!erful Tales, In Bad Dreams 2, Terror Tales and The Random Eye. After spending twelve years in the British police force, he is now qualified as an attorney.
Gerald Warfield After half a lifetime in music, Gerald Warfield switched to writing. He has fifteen books to his credit: textbooks in music and how-to books in investing. After retiring to Texas, he writes only fantasy and soft sci-fi. This is his first publication in fiction.
Jacob Edwards was born in 1976 in Brisbane — Australia’s River City — and studied at the University of Queensland, graduating with a BA (English) and an MA (Ancient History). In addition to writing fiction that has been published in Australia, Canada and the USA, Jacob also edited #45 of the Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (http://www.andromedaspaceways.com/). He lives in Brisbane with his wife and son.
William Wood lives with his wife and children in an old Shenandoah Valley farmhouse turned backwards to the road. He was born in South Carolina, grew up in the US Navy, and travelled the world until he ran into himself, somewhat painfully. His fiction has been cornered and captured with minimal loss of life in anthologies from House of Horror and Living Dead Press and is forthcoming from Library of the Living Dead, Black Matrix Publishing, and Lame Goat Press. Shorter works have found homes at Flash Me Magazine, Alienskin Magazine, Everyday Fiction and Everyday Weirdness. William seeks concision, happiness, and additional voices to keep company the others in his head.
Brandon Alspaugh is an active member of the SFWA and HWA whose work has been previously seen in publications such as Apex, Weird Tales, City Slab, and others. He is the only child he knows whose mother was called in by the teacher to discuss his ‘excessive reading’, and can only assume they’d rather he found a street corner somewhere to loiter on.
Jason Palmer enjoys traveling and relocates frequently. He has disinterestedly held many different jobs, both menial and professional. His fiction ranges from dark comedy to apocalyptic horror.
Daliso Chaponda is a Malawian stand up comedian and fiction writer whose work has appeared in genre publications such as Apex Digest and Ellery Queen’s Mystery. He has performed his particularly deranged brand of stand up comedy in Africa, Europe, North America and Asia. He is currently based in the UK. His website is www.daliso.com
Desmond Warzel’s work has appeared, or is shortly forthcoming, in such publications as Daily Science Fiction, Abyss & Apex, Shroud, and Redstone Science Fiction. He published his first short story in 2007 and rapidly developed a worldwide cult following. To this day, he can’t walk down the street in Asia or Latin America, though his critics suggest this is because he resides in Pennsylvania and has no means of traveling to those places.
Matthew Johnson has published stories in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons and many other places. He recently published his first novel, Fall From Earth, with Bundoran Press (www.bundoranpress.com.) His work has been translated into Czech, Danish and Russian and several of his stories have been reprinted or received honourable mentions in various year’s best collections. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife Megan, his son Leo and two very patient cats. www.zatrikion.blogspot.com
JW Schnarr is the evil mastermind behind Northern Frights Publishing. He currently resides in Champion, Alberta Canada with his daughter and a grumpy turtle. When not writing, editing or publishing, he can be found scheming. And watching sports. A member of the HWA, he is the Editor of Shadows of the Emerald City and War of the Worlds: Frontlines. Look for his Short Fiction collection Things Falling Apart as well as his novel Alice and Dorothy, a story filled with lesbian sex, drugs, and mass murder. Both will be available in 2010. http://jwschnarr.blogspot.com
Douglas Hutcheson used to play with Shogun Warriors and therefore believes it would only be fair to return the favor. When that terrible turnabout comes, he wants it known that his fiction and poems appeared in publications including Treasure Chest, Luminary, Stillpoint, Analecta and Staccato. His story “The Travellin’ Show” manifested in History is Dead and received Honorable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. He was a WITI-featured writer at Choate Road. He co-edited the Halloween-themed anthology Harvest Hill. V. Ulea accepted his story “There’s No Time” for Quantum Genre on the Planet of the Arts. For a limited period, he is available via facebook.com/douglas.hutcheson.
Mark Onspaugh grew up on a steady diet of horror, science fiction and DC Comics. An HWA member, he writes screenplays, short stories and novels. His ghost horror film Kill Katie Malone is now in post-production and he is the co-writer of zombie cult fave Flight of the Living Dead. Mark’s stories also appear in Shadows of the Emerald City (JW Schnarr, ed.), War of the Worlds: Frontlines (JW Schnarr, ed.), The Book of Exodi (Michael K. Eidson, ed.), The World is Dead (Kim Paffenroth, ed.), Footprints (Jay Lake & Eric T. Reynolds, ed.), The Book of Tentacles (Scott Virtes, Edward Cox, Susan R. Campbell, ed.), Triangulation: Dark Glass (Pete Butler, ed.) and Thoughtcrime Experiments http://thoughtcrime.crummy.com/2009/. He also has an essay on monsters in the forthcoming Butcher Knives and Body Counts (Dark Scribe Press). He lives in Los Osos, CA with his wife, author/artist Dr. Tobey Crockett and three enigmatic cats. www.markonspaugh.com
Lyn C. A. Gardner Catalog librarian by day, Lyn C. A. Gardner coedits the journal Virginia Libraries. She's had over two hundred poems, stories, and articles published in Strange Horizons, the Green Knight Press anthologies Legends of the Pendragon and The Doom of Camelot, Challenging Destiny, MindFlights, Talebones, The Leading Edge, and more. Two stories and a poem earned honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling); four poems were nominated for the Rhysling Award (SFPA).