Sam Ashurst
Sam Ashurst is a reviewer for Comics International, and a SF addict. His favorite SF Masterworks
include I am Legend and The Stars My Destination, and his biggest SF regret is
that George Lucas didn't know when to stop.
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Sandy Auden
Sandy Auden is currently working as an enthusiastic reviewer for SFX magazine; a tireless news hound
for Starburst magazine; a diligent book reviews editor for Interzone magazine and a combination
interviewer/reviewer for SFSite.com and TheAlienOnline.net.
She spends her spare time lying down with a cold flannel on her forehead.
Visit her site at The Auden Interviews.
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Jayme Lynn Blaschke
Jayme Lynn Blaschke
writes science fiction and fantasy as well as related non-fiction.
A collection of his interviews, Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy Speak, is now available
from the University of Nebraska Press. He is the former fiction editor for RevolutionSF.com.
His web log can be found at jlbgibberish.blogspot.com
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Nathan Brazil
If Nathan Brazil were dyslexic, he'd be the dog of the Well world. In reality, he's an English bloke who lives on an island, reading,
writing and throwing chips to the seagulls.
Drop by his web site at www.inkdigital.org.
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Charlene Brusso
Charlene's sixth grade teacher told her she would burn her eyes
out before she was 30 if she kept reading and writing so much. Fortunately
he was wrong. Her work has also appeared in Aboriginal SF, Amazing
Stories, Dark Regions, MZB's Fantasy Magazine, and other genre magazines.
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Stuart Carter
Stuart lives and works in London. A well-meaning but lazy soul with an inherent mistrust of jazz and selfish
people, he enjoys eclectic "indie" music, a dissolute lifestyle and original written science fiction, quite
often simultaneously. His wife says he is rather argumentative; Stuart disagrees.
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Pat Caven
Pat Caven was (and perhaps in some ways still is) a local bookseller. She
has now wandered into the public domain.
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Matthew Cheney
Matthew Cheney teaches at the New Hampton School and has published in English Journal, Failbetter.com,
Ideomancer, and Locus, among other places. He writes regularly about science fiction on his weblog,
The Mumpsimus.
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Gabe Chouinard
Gabe Chouinard is a reader, writer and editor who is very vocal in his support of cutting-edge speculative
fiction. He detests skiffy, deplores Fat Fantasy... but is a good guy to have a drink with. Expecting his second
child, Mr. Chouinard is now writing with much more frantic vigor, in the hopes of getting published before he has NO time...
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Dominic Cilli
When asked to write a third-person tag line for his reviews, Dominic Cilli farmed the work out
to an actual 3rd person, his friend Neal, who in turn turned it over to a second person who then
asked his third cousin to help out and this person whom Dom doesn't even know then wrote in 8th
person Omniscient mode "Dom's breadth of knowledge in literature runs the gamut and is certainly
not bounded by the Sci-Fi/Fantasy genre. One thing I can say with certainty is that of all
the people I don't know who've ever recommended books to read, Dom's recommendations are the best.
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Stephen M. Davis
Steve Davis teaches at the University of New Orleans as an Instructor of English. He enjoys chess, strong black coffee,
and books by authors who care enough to work at their craft.
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Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint is the author of The Mystery of Grace (Tor), Medicine Road (Tachyon),
The Onion Girl (Subterranean Press) and many dozens more. Drop by
his web site and discover more.
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Georges T. Dodds
Georges Dodds is a research scientist whose interests lie predominantly in both English and French pre-1950 imaginative fiction. Besides reviews and articles at SFSite and in fanzines such as Argentus, Pulpdom and WARP, he has published peer-reviewed articles in fields ranging from folklore to water resource management. He is the creator and co-curator of The Ape-Man, His Kith and Kin a website exploring thematic precursors of Tarzan of the Apes, as well as works having possibly served as Edgar Rice Burroughs' documentary sources. The close to 100 e-texts include a number of first time translations from the French by himself and others. Georges is also the creator and curator of a website dedicated to William Murray Graydon (1864-1946), a prolific American-born author of boys' adventures. The website houses biographical, and bibliographical materials, as well as a score of novels, and over 100 short stories.
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Lisa DuMond
In between reviews, articles, and interviews, Lisa DuMond writes science
fiction and humour. DARKERS, her latest novel, was published in August 2000
by Hard Shell Word Factory. She has also written for BOOKPAGE and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.
Her articles and short stories are all over the map. You can check
out Lisa and her work at her website hikeeba!.
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Susan Dunman
Susan became a librarian many light years ago and has been reviewing books ever since. Audiobooks and graphic novels have
expanded her quest to find the best science fiction in Libraryland.
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Amal El-Mohtar
Amal has a history of reading anything with pages. Now, she reads stuff online, too. She sometimes does other things, but that's mainly it.
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John Enzinas
John Enzinas reads frequently and passionately. In his spare time he plays with swords.
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Nicki Gerlach
Nicki Gerlach is a mad scientist by day and an avid reader the rest of the time. More of her book
reviews can be found at her blog, fyreflybooks.wordpress.com/.
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Nick Gevers
Nick Gevers is a South African science fiction editor and critic, whose work has appeared
in The Washington Post Book World, Interzone, Scifi.com,
SF Site, The New York Review of Science Fiction and Nova Express.
He writes two monthly review columns for Locus magazine, and is editor and deputy publisher at
PS Publishing. He is also the editor, with Peter Crowther, of PS's quarterly fiction magazine, Postscripts.
Nick was co-editor, with Keith Brooke, of the science fiction anthologies Infinity Plus One (2001)
and Infinity Plus Two (2003), and in September 2007 released Infinity Plus: The Anthology through Solaris Books.
His first original anthology, Other Earths, in collaboration with Jay Lake, will be published by DAW Books in 2008.
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Marc Goldstein
Marc is the principal contributor to the SF Site's
Role Playing Department.
Marc lives in Santa Ana, California with his wife, Sabrina and cat, Onion.
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Mario Guslandi
Mario Guslandi lives in Milan, Italy, and is a long-time fan of dark fiction. His book reviews have
appeared on a number of genre websites such as The Alien Online, Infinity Plus,
Necropsy, The Agony Column and Horrorwold.
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David Hebblethwaite
David lives somewhere in England, where he reads a lot of books and occasionally does other things.
He has published over a hundred reviews in various venues; you can find links to them all, and
more besides, at his blog, Follow the Thread.
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Rich Horton
Rich Horton is an eclectic reader in and out of the SF and fantasy
genres. He's been reading SF since before the Golden Age (that is,
since before he was 13). Born in Naperville, IL, he lives and works
(as a Software Engineer for the proverbial Major Aerospace Company) in
St. Louis area and is a regular contributor to Tangent. Stop by his website at http://www.sff.net/people/richard.horton.
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Alma A. Hromic
Alma A. Hromic, addicted (in random order) to coffee, chocolate and books, has a constant and chronic problem
of "too many books, not enough bookshelves". When not collecting more books and avidly reading them (with a cup of
coffee at hand), she keeps busy writing her own. Following her successful two-volume
fantasy series, Changer of Days, her latest novel, Jin-shei, is due out from
Harper San Francisco in the spring of 2004.
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Matthew Hughes
Matthew Hughes writes science fantasy. His stories have appeared in Asimov's, F&SF,
Postscripts and Interzone.
His latest novels are Template, and Hespira: A Tale of Henghis Hapthorn.
His web page is at http://www.archonate.com/.
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Derek Johnson
Derek Johnson lives, works and writes in Central Texas. He believes that, one day, he'll make a dent in
his ever-growing "to-read" pile. That hasn't happened thus far.
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Greg L. Johnson
After forty years of reading sf, Greg L.
Johnson decided he was finally qualified to tell other people what he
thought of it. His reviews also appear in the
The New York Review of Science Fiction.
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Michael M Jones
Michael M Jones enjoys an addiction to books, for which he's glad there is no cure. He lives with his very patient wife (who
doesn't complain about books taking over the house... much), eight cats, and a large plaster penguin that once tasted
blood and enjoyed it. A prophecy states that when Michael finishes reading everything on his list, he'll finally
die. He aims to be immortal.
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Rob Kane
Robert learned to read with a litle help from Lloyd Alexander, and he hasn't stopped reading fantasy since then. No
matter how busy life gets he can always find time for a good book.
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Dustin Kenall
Dustin Kenall is a lawyer working and blogging in DC. Accordingly, if at any given moment he's not reading
or writing, it's probably because he's unconscious. His
blog, readslikealawyer.blogspot.com, is always wide awake, though.
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Paul Kincaid
Paul Kincaid is the recipient of the SFRA's Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service for 2006. He
is the co-editor of The Arthur C. Clarke Award: A Critical Anthology.
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Rick Klaw
One of the more opinionated people in an industry of opinionated people, Rick Klaw is perhaps best know
for the popular column "Geeks With Books" for SF Site. Geek Confidential:
Echoes From the 21st Century, a collection of his critical essays, reviews, and other observations
was published in 2003 by MonkeyBrain, Inc. His interviews of Bruce Sterling and Joe R. Lansdale are
part of Conversations With Texas Writers (2005) from the University of Texas Press.
His writings have appeared in The Austin Chronicle, Weird Business, The
Big Book of the Weird Wild West, Gangland, Michael Moorcock's Multiverse,
Science Fiction Weekly, Nova Express, Electric Velocipede,
KongisKing.net, Fantastic Metropolis and other venues.
Klaw lives in Austin, TX with his wife, a cat and an enormous collection of books. As he has for
the previous eighteen years, Klaw works as a bookseller.
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Suzanne Krein
Suzanne Krein is a free-lance curriculum writer with a life-long passion -- reading and writing science
fiction, especially Christian science fiction. She lives with her family in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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Martin Lewis
Martin Lewis lives in East London. His reviews have appeared in venues
including Vector, Strange Horizons and The New York Review of Science
Fiction. He blogs at Everything Is Nice.
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Alex Lightman
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Richard A. Lupoff
Richard A. Lupoff is a novelist, short-story writer, critic, and sometime academic. His most
recent books are Visions (currently in production by Mythos Books) and
Quintet: The Cases of Chase and Delacroix (Crippen & Landru). He is also the
Editorial Director of Surinam Turtle Press, an imprint of Ramble House.
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Hank Luttrell
Hank Luttrell has reviewed science fiction for newspapers, magazines and
websites. He was nominated for the Best Fanzine Hugo Award and is
currently a bookseller in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Margo MacDonald
Margo has always been drawn toward fantasy and, at the age of 5, decided
to fill her life with it by pursuing a career as a professional actress.
Aside from theatre (and her husband), Margo's passion has been for books.
Her interests are diverse and eclectic, but the bulk fall within the
realm of speculative fiction. She tells us that her backlog has reached
200 books and she's ready to win the lottery and retire.
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Wayne MacLaurin
Wayne MacLaurin is a regular SF Site reviewer. More of his opinions are
available on our Book Reviews pages.
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David Maddox
Science fiction enthusiast David Maddox has been many things, including
Star Trek characters and the Riddler in a Batman stunt
show. He holds a degree in Cinema from San Francisco State University, and
has written several articles for various SF sites as well as the Star
Wars Insider and the Star Trek Communicator. He spends
his time working on screenplays and stories while acting on stage, screen
and television. He can sometimes be seen giving tours at Universal
Studios Hollywood and occasionally playing Norman Bates. Really.
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Tom Marcinko
Tom Marcinko's fiction has appeared in Interzone, SF Age,
The Edge, and on Ellen Datlow's late lamented EventHorizon.com site. He lives in Arizona.
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Jonathan McCalmont
Jonathan McCalmont is a recovering academic and cynic who produces criticism and commentary for a number of
different venues including his blog SF Diplomat. He
is also the editor of Fruitless Recursion, an online
journal devoted to discussing works of genre criticism. He lives in the United Kingdom so that you don't have to.
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Jennifer McCann
A belly dancing, dyslexic wife and mother who in her spare time works as a library clerk. A full and rich
life is lead through the books she listens to and/or reads. Dyslexics Untie!
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Alisa McCune
Alisa discovered science fiction at the tender age of eight. She devoured The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
and never looked back. She lives in Chicago with her husband, cat, and 5000 books. For more information please visit her
website at alisaandmike.com.
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Donna McMahon
Donna McMahon discovered science fiction in high school and fandom in
1977, and never recovered. Dance of Knives, her first novel, was published by Tor in May,
2001, and her book reviews won an Aurora Award the
same month. She likes to review books first as a reader (Was this a
Good Read? Did I get my money's worth?) and second as a writer (What
makes this book succeed/fail as a genre novel?). You can visit her
website at http://www.donna-mcmahon.com/.
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Kilian Melloy
Kilian Melloy serves as Assistant Arts Editor for EDGE Publications, reviewing film and books and interviewing
fascinating artistic people. He also occasionally contributes to this and other online publications.
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Gabe Mesa
Gabe Mesa is the assistant editor at s1ngularity. He lives in New York
City with his wife and daughter and 4,000 books.
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Tammy Moore
Tammy Moore is a speculative fiction writer based in Belfast. She writes reviews for Verbal Magazine,
Crime Scene NI and Green Man Review.
Her first book The Even -- written by Tammy Moore and illustrated by Stephanie Law -- is published
by Morrigan Books, September 2008.
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Lise Murphy
Lise Murphy has been reading science fiction and fantasy ever since she was little. Aided by Star Wars,
her Dad introduced her to the genre. Educated as a virologist, she has worked in rabies research for the
federal government and is now working in laboratory safety. She lives in Ottawa, Canada with her husband Brad and beagle Madigan.
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David Newbert
David Newbert worked for public and university libraries for several years before joining the
college book trade. He lives in New Mexico, where the aliens landed.
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Ian Nichols
Ian Nichols is studying for his Masters degree at the University of Western Australia, and
is fortunate enough to be studying in the area he most enjoys; Fantasy and Science Fiction.
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Bonnie L. Norman
With a love for all things Science Fiction and Fantasy, it's hard for Bonnie to decide between SF books
and SF TV, but somehow, books always seem to win.
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Rick Norwood
Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has
published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster.
He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic
comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd
Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby,
Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon.
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Kit O'Connell
Kit O'Connell is a writer and bookseller and Voluptuary living in College Station, Texas.
His poetry will appear in Aberrant Dreams in 2008. He can be found
online at approximately 8,000 words, his homepage,
and Words Words Words, the Dream Café weblog.
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Matthew Peckham
Matthew Peckham works for Union Pacific Railroad where he chairs the client technology committee. He holds an M.A. in English
and scribes for PC Gamer and Computer Games Magazine in his spare time. His life goal is to
write a Pulitzer-winning stream-of-consciousness epic series about the marginalized life of trashcan bacteria before it
mutates and takes over the world.
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Katherine Petersen
Katherine Petersen started reading as a young child and hasn't stopped. She still
thinks she can read all the books she wants, but might, at some point, realize the
impossibility of this mission. While she enjoys other genres, she thrives on
fantasy, science fiction and mysteries.
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Regina Lynn Preciado
Freelance writer Regina Lynn Preciado lives in her truck but maintains a
household in Los Angeles. Find out what else she's reading in her
book blog.
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Chris Przybyszewski
Chris learned to read from books of fantasy and science fiction, in that order. And any time he can find a graphic novel
that inspires, that's good too.
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Paul Raven
Paul
Graham Raven does a ridiculous number of things, including publishing the
near-future sf webzine Futurismic,
developing and managing websites for various authors and agents in the genre
field, and online public relations for the UK's foremost boutique genre
publishing house, PS Publishing.
He also answers tedious and easily-Googled questions about Naval history at his
day-job in a museum library, reviews sf novels and music by hirsute tattooed
lunatics, and spews the contents of his brain and browser bookmarks onto
the web at the Velcro City Tourist Board .
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Ivy Reisner
Ivy Reisner is a writer, an obsessive knitter, and a podcaster. Find her at IvyReisner.com.
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Steven Sawicki
Born and raised in Connecticut on a dark and stormy night, Steven Sawicki has moved steadily West with the sense that by the
year 2124 he would be in Eastern New York. He has, however, been forced East and therefore doesn't anticipate
New York until sometime after 2150 now.
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Jakob Schmidt
Jakob writes and translates reviews, essays and short stories, most of them for the German magazine
Alien Contact (www.alien-contact.de) and its publishing house Shayol. That's in his spare time,
which luckily still makes up the bulk of his days.
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Sandra Scholes
Sandra writes for Active Anime and FantasyBookReview when she isn't writing
short, fictional stories. She is currently working on a manga short and some interesting Lovecraftian
type poetry that just came out of nowhere.
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James Seidman
James Seidman is a busy technology manager at a Fortune 100 company, who
needs the excuse of doing book reviews to give himself time to read. He
lives with his wife, daughter, two dogs, and twenty-seven fish in Naperville, Illinois.
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Steven H Silver
Steven H Silver is a seven-time Hugo Nominee for Best Fan Writer and the editor of the anthologies
Wondrous Beginnings, Magical Beginnings, and Horrible Beginnings.
He is the publisher of ISFiC Press. In addition to maintaining several
bibliographies and the Harry Turtledove website, Steven
is heavily involved in convention running and publishes
the fanzine Argentus.
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A.L. Sirois
A.L. Sirois has been reading and writing science fiction since he was in single digits. He is now
closer to triple digits than he cares to think about. His personal
site is at http://www.alsirois.com.
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Sherwood Smith
Sherwood Smith is a writer by vocation and reader by avocation. Her webpage
is at www.sff.net/people/sherwood/.
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David Soyka
David Soyka is a former journalist and college teacher who writes the occasional short story and
freelance article. He makes a living writing corporate marketing communications, which is a kind of
fiction without the art.
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Cindy Lynn Speer
Cindy Lynn Speer loves books so much that she's designed most of her life around them, both as a librarian and
a writer. Her books aren't due out anywhere soon, but she's trying. You can find her site at www.apenandfire.com.
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Victoria Strauss
Victoria Strauss is a novelist, and a lifelong reader of fantasy and science fiction.
Her most recent fantasy novel, The Burning Land, is available from HarperCollins Eos.
For more information,
visit her website.
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Mike Thibault
Michael Thibault is a librarian and archivist in Ottawa, Canada. Aside from gaming and the obligatory obsession with reading, he... er, well, he doesn't have any other hobbies.
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William Thompson
In addition to the SF Site, William Thompson's reviews have appeared in Interzone,
Revolution Science Fiction and Locus Online. He also has worked as a freelance
editor for PS Publishing, editing The Healthy Dead and Grandma Matchie, by Steven Erikson,
and Night of Knives, by Cameron Esslemont. He lives in Mesilla, New Mexico.
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