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Ed Finn
is the founding director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, where he is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and the Department of English. His research and teaching explore the ways ideas circulate through contemporary culture, especially in digital form, and he is currently working on a book about the changing nature of reading in the age of algorithms. He completed his Ph.D. in English and American literature at Stanford University. Before graduate school Ed worked as a journalist at
Time
,
Slate
, and
Popular Science
. He earned his bachelor's degree at Princeton University with a comparative literature major and certificates in applications of computing, creative writing, and European cultural studies.
Kathryn Cramer
is a writer, critic, and anthologist and was coeditor of the
Year's Best Fantasy
and
Year's Best SF
series. She has coedited approximately thirty anthologies. She was a founding editor of the
New York Review of Science Fiction
and has a large number of Hugo nominations in the Semiprozine category to show for it. She won a World Fantasy Award for her anthology
The Architecture of Fear
(1987). Her fiction has been published by
Asimov's
and
Nature
and in anthologies. Her story “Am I Free to Go?” was recently published on Tor.com. Kathryn holds a B.A. in mathematics and a master's degree in American Studies, both from Columbia University in New York. For five years, she taught writing at Harvard Summer School. More recently she has been a consultant for Wolfram Research, L. W. Currey, an antiquarian bookseller, and for ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination. She lives in Westport, New York, in the Adirondack Park.
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Charlie Jane Anders
writes about science fiction for
io9
and is the author of the novel
Choir Boy
(2005). She has contributed to
Mother Jones
, the
Wall Street Journal
, the
San Francisco Chronicle
,
ZYZZYVA
,
Pindeldyboz
,
Strange Horizons
, and many other publications. She is coeditor of the anthology
She's Such a Geek
(2006) and published an indy magazine called
other
.
Madeline Ashby
is a science fiction writer and strategic foresight consultant based in Toronto. She is the author of
vN
(2012) and
iD
(2013), the first two novels in her Machine Dynasty series. Her fiction has appeared in
Nature,
FLURB, Tesseracts, Imaginarium,
and
Escape Pod
. Her essays and criticism have appeared at
Boing Boing, io9, WorldChanging, Creators Project, Arcfinity,
and Tor.com.
Elizabeth Bear
is a science fiction and fantasy author based in Massachusetts. In 2005 she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and she has also won two Hugo Awards, for Best Short Story and Best Novelette. Elizabeth is an instructor at the Viable Paradise science fiction and fantasy writers' workshop and also teaches at Clarion, Clarion West, the WisCon Writer's Respite, and Odyssey.
Gregory Benford
is a science fiction author, educator, and astrophysicist. In addition to authoring more than twenty novels, Gregory is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been a faculty member since 1971. He has served as a scientific consultant for
Star Trek: The Next Generation,
is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and is a contributing editor for
Reason
magazine.
David Brin
is a scientist, bestselling author, and tech-futurist. His novels include
Earth
(1990),
The Postman
(1985, filmed in 1997), and Hugo Award winners
Startide Rising
(1983) and
The Uplift War
(1987). A leading commentator and speaker on modern trends, his nonfiction book
The Transparent Society
(1998) won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association.
James L. Cambias
is a science fiction author and game designer. His short stories have been featured in the
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nature,
and the
Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives
. He is a cofounder of Zygote Games, codesigned
Bone Wards: The Game of Ruthless Paleontology,
and has written or contributed to books for a number of tabletop role-playing games.
Brenda Cooper
is a science fiction author, futurist, and technology professional. She is the chief information officer for the city of Kirkland, Washington, and a member of the Futurist Board for the Lifeboat Foundation. Brenda is the author of seven novels, including
The Silver Ship and the Sea,
which won the Endeavor Award in 2008.
Paul Davies
is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist, and best-selling author. He is a regents' professor, director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, and co-director of the Cosmology Initiative at Arizona State University. His award-winning books include
The Eerie Silence
(2010),
The Goldilocks Enigma
(2007),
How to Build a Time Machine
(2007), and
The Mind of God
(1992).
Cory Doctorow
is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, and blogger. He is the coeditor of
Boing Boing
and the author of young adult novels like
Homeland
(2013)
, Pirate Cinema
(2012), and
Little Brother
(2008) and novels for adults like
Rapture of the Nerds
(2012) and
Makers
(2009). Cory is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and cofounded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London.
Kathleen Ann Goonan
is a science fiction author, educator, and critic. Her debut novel,
Queen City Jazz
(1994), was a
New York Times
Notable Book of the Year, and her novel
In War Times
(2007) won the John W. Campbell Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. She is a visiting professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Lee Konstantinou
is a novelist and scholar of post-World War II U.S. fiction. He serves as associate editor for fiction and criticism at the
Los Angeles Review of Books
and is an assistant professor in the department of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. Lee is the author of the novel
Pop Apocalypse
(2009) and coeditor of
The Legacy of David Foster Wallace
(2012).
Lawrence M. Krauss
is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and science popularizer. He is the founding director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University and the foundation professor at ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration and Department of Physics. His most recent books include
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
(2012),
Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science
(2010), and
Hiding in the Mirror
(2005).
Geoffrey A. Landis
is a scientist and a science fiction writer. As a scientist, he is a researcher at the NASA John Glenn Research Center. He works on projects related to advanced power and propulsion systems for space and planetary exploration and is currently a member of the science team for the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. As a science fiction writer, he has won a Nebula Award, two Hugo Awards, and a Locus Award, as well as two Rhysling Awards for his poetry.
Annalee Newitz
writes about science, pop culture, and the future. She is the editor in chief of
io9,
a publication that covers science and science fiction. She is the author of the books
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
(2013) and
Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture
(2006) and the coeditor of
She's Such a Geek
(2006). Formerly, she was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a Ph.D. in English and American Studies.
Rudy Rucker
is a science fiction author, philosopher, mathematician, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk movement. He worked for twenty years as a computer science professor at San Jose State University and has published a number of software packages. His novels include
Turing & Burroughs
(2012),
Jim and the Flims
(2011), and
Hylozoic
(2009), as well as the Ware Tetralogy (1982â2000), a four-book cyberpunk series that won two Philip K. Dick awards.
Karl Schroeder
divides his time between writing fiction and analyzing the future impact of science and technology on society. He is the author of nine novels and has pioneered a new mode of writing that blends fiction and rigorous futures research:
Crisis in Zefra
(2005) and
Crisis in Urlia
(2011) were commissioned by the Canadian army as research tools. Karl holds a master's degree in strategic foresight and innovation from OCAD University in Toronto.
Vandana Singh
is a science fiction author and assistant professor of physics at Framingham State College. Her short stories, which most recently include “Peripateia” (2013), “Cry of the Kharchal” (2013), “With Fate Conspire” (2013), and “A Handful of Rice” (2012), frequently appear in
Year's Best
and other anthologies. She also writes poetry as well as novels and short stories for children.
Neal Stephenson
is an author of historical and science fiction, a technology consultant, and the principal provocateur behind Project Hieroglyph. He is the author of the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (2003â2004) and the novels
REAMDE
(2012),
Anathem
(2008),
Cryptonomicon
(1999),
The Diamond Age
(1995),
Snow Crash
(1992), and
Zodiac
(1988). He lives in Seattle, Washington.
Bruce Sterling
is an author, journalist, editor, and critic. Best known for his ten science fiction novels, he also writes short stories, book reviews, design criticism, and introductions for books ranging from Ernst Juenger to Jules Verne. He is a contributing editor at
Wired
magazine, and in 2013 he was the Visionary in Residence at the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University.
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