Dead Man’s Hand (62 page)

KEN LIU

Ken Liu (
http://kenliu.name
) is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer.
His fiction has appeared in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed
, and
Strange Horizons
, among other places. He has won a Nebula, two Hugos, a World Fantasy Award, and a
Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award, and been nominated for the Sturgeon and
the Locus Awards. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts. Ken’s debut
novel,
The Grace of Kings
, the first in a fantasy series, will be published by Simon & Schuster’s new genre
fiction imprint in 2015, along with a collection of short stories.

JONATHAN MABERRY

Jonathan Maberry is a
New York Times
bestselling author, multiple Bram Stoker Award winner, and Marvel Comics writer.
He’s the author of many novels including
Assassin’s Code, Flesh & Bone Dead of Night, Patient Zero
and
Rot & Ruin
; and the editor of
V-Wars: A Chronicle of the Vampire Wars
. His nonfiction books are on topics ranging from martial arts to zombie pop-culture.
Since 1978 he has sold more than 1200 magazine feature articles, 3000 columns, two
plays, greeting cards, song lyrics, poetry, and textbooks. Jonathan continues to teach
the celebrated Experimental Writing for Teens class, which he created. He founded
the Writers Coffeehouse and co-founded The Liars Club; and is a frequent speaker at
schools and libraries, as well as a keynote speaker and guest of honor at major writers
and genre conferences.

SEANAN MCGUIRE

Seanan McGuire is the author of two ongoing urban fantasy series (the October Daye
books, starting with
Rosemary and Rue
, and InCryptid, starting with
Discount Armageddon
), both published by DAW Books, as well as many works of short fiction. Under the
name “Mira Grant” she writes science fiction thrillers full of viruses and zombies.
Between her two identities, she is a ten-time finalist for the Hugo Award, and was
the winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She has released
five CDs of original music, and is a founding member of the Hugo Award-winning
SF Squeecast
. She currently resides on the West Coast, where she shares her home with three enormous
blue cats, a great many books, and the occasional wayward rattlesnake. Seanan regularly
claims to be the advance scout of a race of alien plant people. We have no good reason
to doubt her.

MIKE RESNICK

Mike Resnick is, according to
Locus Magazine
, the all-time award winner, living or dead, for short fiction. He has won five Hugos
(from a record thirty-six nominations), a Nebula, and other major awards in the USA,
France, Japan, Croatia, Poland, and Spain. He is the author of seventy-one novels,
more than two hundred and fifty stories, three screenplays, and the editor of more
than forty anthologies. His work has been translated into twenty-six languages, and
he was the Guest of Honor at the 2012 World Science Fiction Convention.

BETH REVIS

Beth Revis is the
New York Times
bestselling author of the young adult science fiction series, Across the Universe.
The third and final book,
Shades of Earth
, came out in 2013, and she’s currently working on a new SF series. Beth lives in
North Carolina with her husband and dog.

ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

Alastair Reynolds is the author of the Revelation Space series, which includes the
novels
Revelation Space, Chasm City, Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap
, and
The Prefect
. Other novels include
Century Rain, Terminal World, Pushing Ice
, and
House of Suns
. His latest novels are
Blue Remembered Earth
, the first in the Poseidon’s Children trilogy, and
Dr. Who: Harvest of Time
.

FRED VAN LENTE

Fred Van Lente is the #1
New York Times
bestselling author of
Marvel Zombies
,
Incredible Hercules
(with Greg Pak),
Odd Is On Our Side
(with Dean R. Koontz), as well as the American Library Association award-winning
Action Philosophers
. His original graphic novel
Cowboys & Aliens
(co-written with Andrew Foley) is the basis for the major motion picture starring
Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford. Van Lente’s other comics include
The Comic Book History of Comics, Taskmaster, Archer & Armstrong, Amazing Spider-Man
and
Hulk: Season One
.

TAD WILLIAMS

Former singer, shoe-seller, radio show host, and inventor of interactive sci-fi television,
Tad Williams established himself as an international bestselling author with his
The Dragonbone Chair
epic fantasy series. The books that followed, the Otherland series, are now a multi-million-dollar
MMO from dtp/realU/Gamigo. Tad is also the author of the Shadowmarch books; the stand-alone
Faerie epic,
The War of the Flowers
; two collections of short stories (
Rite
and
A Stark and Wormy Knight
), the Shakespearian fantasy
Caliban’s Hour
, and, with his partner and collaborator Deborah Beale, the childrens’/all-ages fantasy
series, the Ordinary Farm novels. Recently, with
The Dirty Streets of Heaven
, Tad has begun publishing the Bobby Dollar novels, noir fantasy thrillers set against
the backdrop of the monstrously ancient cold war between Heaven and Hell and following
the adventures of a certain maverick angel. Tad is also the author of
Tailchaser’s Song
, which is in production as an animated film.

WALTER JON WILLIAMS

Walter Jon Williams is an award-winning, best-selling science fiction author. His
first novel to attract serious public attention was
Hardwired
, described by Roger Zelazny as “a tough, sleek juggernaut of a story, punctuated
by strobe-light movements, coursing to the wail of jets and the twang of steel guitars.”
In 2001 he won a Nebula Award for his novelette, “Daddy’s World,” and in 2005 another
Nebula for “The Green Leopard Plague.” The fantasy
Metropolitan
, which was nominated for a Nebula Award, begins a sequence continued in a Nebula-
and Hugo-nominated second novel,
City on Fire
. His latest work is
The Fourth Wall
, the third book in his series of near-future thrillers featuring game designer Dagmar
Shaw.

BEN H. WINTERS

Ben H. Winters is the winner of the Edgar Award for his novel
The Last Policeman
, which was also an
Amazon.com
Best Book of 2012. Other works of fiction include the middle-grade novel
The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman
, an Edgar Award nominee; its sequel,
The Mystery of the Missing Everything
; the psychological thriller
Bedbugs;
and two parody novels,
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
(a
New York Times
best-seller), and
Android Karenina.
Ben has also written extensively for the stage and is a past fellow of the Dramatists
Guild. His journalism has appeared in
Slate, The Nation, The Chicago Reader
, and many other publications. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, and at
BenHWinters.com
.

CHRISTIE YANT

Christie Yant is a science fiction and fantasy writer, and Assistant Editor for
Lightspeed
Magazine. Her fiction has been featured on
Wired.com
and
io9
, in the magazines
Analog Science Fiction & Fact
,
Fireside
,
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer
, and
Daily Science Fiction
, and in the anthologies
The Way of the Wizard
,
Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2011, Other Worlds Than These
, and
Armored
. She lives on the central coast of California with two writers, an editor, and assorted
four-legged nuisances. Follow her on Twitter
@christieyant
.

CHARLES YU

Charles Yu is the author of
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
, which was a
New York Times
Notable Book and named one of the best books of the year by
Time
magazine. He received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award for his story
collection
Third Class Superhero
, and was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award. His work has been published
in the
New York Times
,
Playboy
, and
Slate
, among other periodicals. His latest book,
Sorry Please Thank You
, was named one of the best science fiction/fantasy books of the year by the
San Francisco Chronicle
. Yu lives in Santa Monica, California, with his wife, Michelle, and their two children.

JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS
is the series editor of
Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy
published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He is also the bestselling editor of many
other anthologies, such as
The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, Armored, Brave New Worlds, Wastelands,
The Living Dead, HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! & Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects
, and The Apocalypse Triptych consisting of
The End is Nigh, The End is Now
, and
The End Has Come
. He has been nominated for six Hugo Awards and five World Fantasy Awards, and he
has been called “the reigning king of the anthology world” by Barnes & Noble. John
is also the editor and publisher of the digital magazines
Lightspeed
and
Nightmare
, and is a producer for
Wired.com’s
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy
podcast. Find him on Twitter
@johnjosephadams
. Visit the official website for
Dead Man’s Hand
at
johnjosephadams.com/dead-mans-hand
.

An anthology of the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from
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