The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures (76 page)

F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
(b.1948), Froggy to his friends, is a Scottish-born,
Australian-raised, American-resident author. His stories have appeared in
Analog, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Amazing Stories,
Weird Tales, Absolute Magnitude, Albedo
and
numerous anthologies, including Terry Carr’s
Best Science
Fiction of the Year #10.
His non-fiction has been
published in the
New York Daily News, Literary Review,
Games Magazine
and many British and U.S.
publications. In 2003, he was short-listed for the Montblanc/Spectator Award
for his arts journalism. He is the author or co-author of several books,
including the science-fiction novels
The DNA Disaster
(1991),
The
Woman Between the Worlds
(1994), and his collection
Maclntyre’s
Improbable Bestiary
(2001).

Michael Mallory
is the author of some eighty short stories, many featuring Amelia
Watson (some of which are collected as
The Adventures of the Second Mrs
Watson,
2000) and whose exploits are also chronicled in the novel
Murder
in the Bath
(2004). He also created and co-edited the anthology
Murder
on Sunset Boulevard
(2002). Outside of fiction, Mike has written two books
on pop-culture,
Hanna-Barbera Cartoons
(1998) and
Marvel: The
Characters and Their Universe
(2002), and his articles — more than 350 to
date — have appeared everywhere from the
Los Angeles Times
to
Fox
Kids Magazine.
He lives in Southern California.

Sharan Newman
(b. 1949) is a medievalist specializing in France. She is the
author of the Guinevere fantasy trilogy,
Guinevere
(1981),
The
Chessboard Queen
(1983) and
Guinevere Evermore
(1985) and the
Catherine Levendeur mystery series, set in twelfth century France, which began
with
Death Comes as Epiphany
(1993). The tenth of that series is
The
Witch in the Well
(2004). She is also the author of the non-fiction work,
The
Real History Behind the Da Vinci Code
(2005).

Michel Pagel
was born in 1961. His first novel was published in 1984, since
when he has published about twenty-five novels or collections in the SF, horror
and fantasy genres. He considers his most important work to be a series of modern
supernatural novels/short stories entitled
La Comédie Inhumaine (The Inhuman
Comedy).
His SF novel
L’Equilibre des Paradoxes (The Balance of
Paradoxes)
and his historical fantasy about King Philippe Auguste
Le Roi
d’Août (The King of August)
were critically well-received, both winning
awards in France. He is working on a new series of historical fantasy novels
entitled
Les Compagnons d’Ishtar (The Brotherhood of Ishtar).
He has
translated the works of Peter Straub, Joe Haldeman and Neil Gaiman. His SF novel
Cinéterre (Filmworld),
set mostly in London in an alternative world
based on the Hammer horror films, is looking for a British publisher.

Adam Roberts
is thirty-nine and is Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature at
Royal Holloway, University of London. His first novel,
Salt,
was
nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2000. He had published several
academic works on nineteenth century poetry and science fiction. His novels
On
(2001),
Stone
(2002), and
Polystom
(2003), have been praised
both for their striking ideative content and originality. His latest novel is
The
Snow
(2004). His website can be found at
www.adamroberts.com

Justina Robson
was born and brought up in Leeds. She studied Philosophy and Linguistics
at university and began writing in 1992. Her first novel
Silver Screen,
appeared
in 1999 and her second novel,
Mappa Mundi,
was published to acclaim in
2001. Both of them were short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke award and won the
amazon.co.uk
Writers’ Bursary for 2000. Her latest books
are Natural
History
(2004) and
Living Next Door To The God Of Love
(2005). She
also reviews science fiction for the
Guardian.

Brian Stableford
(b. 1948) is a renowned and prolific writer of science fiction
and fantasy. He has been selling professionally for forty years but his work
has always explored the cutting edge of technology, from the days of his
Star-Pilot Grainger series, which began with
The Halcyon Drift
(1972)
and are now all available in the omnibus
Swan Songs
(2003) to such
collections as
Sexual Chemistry
(1991), dealing with genetic engineering
and
Designer Genes
(2004), exploring biotechnology. He has published
more than fifty novels and two hundred short stories, as well as several
non-fiction books, thousands of articles for periodicals and reference books,
several volumes of translations from the French and a number of anthologies. He
is a part-time Lecturer in Creative Writing at University College, Winchester.
His recent publications include two story collections,
Complications and
Other Stories
(2003) and
Salome and Other Decadent Fantasies
(2004),
and a
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature
(2004).

A former lecturer in
Future Studies,
Ian Watson
(b. 1943) is the award-winning author of
nearly fifty novels and short-story collections from
The Embedding
(1973)
to the recent
Mockymen
(2003), and including the Vernian
Japan
Tomorrow
(1977) for young adults. He wrote the Screen Story for
A.I.
Artificial Intelligence,
the Steven Spielberg movie based on the “robot
Pinocchio” project of Stanley Kubrick with whom Ian worked for a year. PS
Publishing are issuing his tenth story collection,
Butterflies of Memory,
at
the end of 2005. In 2001 DNA Publications produced his first poetry collection,
The Lexicographer’s Love Song.
He lives in a little village in South
Northamptonshire. His website is at
www.ianwatson.info

Liz Williams
(b. 1965) is the daughter of a conjuror and a Gothic novelist,
and currently lives in Brighton, England. She has a PhD in philosophy of
science from Cambridge and her anti-career ranges from reading tarot cards on
Brighton pier to teaching in Central Asia. She currently writes full time. Her
novel
The Ghost Sister
was published in July 2001. Further novels
include
Empire of Bones
(2002),
The Poison Master
(2003),
Nine
Layers of Sky
(2003), and
Banner of Souls,
(2004). She has had over
forty short stories published
in Asimov’s, Interzone, Realms of Fantasy
and
The Third Alternative.