Kevin J. Anderson was born in 1962 and was raised in Oregon, Wisconsin.
At 10, he had saved up enough money from mowing lawns and doing odd jobs that he
could either buy a bicycle or a typewriter -- he
chose the typewriter and has been writing ever since.
He sold his first novel, Resurrection, Inc., by the time he turned 25.
Anderson worked in California for 12 years as a technical writer and editor at the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory where he met his wife Rebecca Moesta and his frequent co-author, Doug Beason.
Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony is a pen name for Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob.
The author of better than 100 published books,
he is perhaps best known for his Xanth series of fantasy novels
which now number twenty. His first novel, Chthon, was published in 1967.
He lives in Inverness, Citrus County, Florida.
Tom Arden
Tom Arden was born in 1961 and grew up in Mount Gambier, a small
town in Australia. He wrote his first novel, Moon Escape, when he was
seven years old -- a tale of lunar explorers kidnapped by evil
aliens. He has been in bands and worked as a disc jockey on a public radio station.
Studying English at the University of Adelaide,
he graduated with First Class Honours in English. Later he
completed a PhD thesis on Clarissa, the epic tale by the 18th-century novelist Samuel Richardson. In
1990, Tom moved to the UK and for some years was a university
lecturer in Northern Ireland. He now lives in Brighton.
Catherine Asaro
Catherine Asaro's latest book is The Last Hawk. It, like its two
predecessors, Primary Inversion andCatch the Lightning,
is set in the same universe. But they are stand-alone novels and can be read in any order.
The Last Hawk continues the adventures within
the Skolian Empire. A fourth book will be called The Radiant Seas, a sequel to Primary Inversion,
and will appear in 1998.
Neal Asher
Neal Asher was born in 1961 in Billericay in Essex.
He started writing SF and fantasy at 16 after what he terms an "overdose" of E.C. Tubb books.
After leaving school, he worked for a steel furniture maker, then operated a milling machine
and began writing again. Thereafter, he decided to go back to school and finally graduated.
He continued to write, having his work published in a number of magazines and producing
a short story collection called Runcible Tales from Piper's Ash.
Robert Asprin
Robert Lynn Asprin was born in 1946 in St. John's, Minnesota.
He attended the University of Michigan and work for a number of years at
University Microfilm in Ann Arbor until he decided to write full-time in 1978.
The Cold Cash War was his first published novel followed by
Another Fine Myth, a hilarious farce with dragons, stranded demons and bad puns.
He has also collaborated with Lynn Abbey to edit the very popular
12-volume Thieves' World series -- it became the touchstone for
shared-world anthologies.
Steve Aylett
Steve Aylett was born in Bromley, England at the end of the sixties. He left school at 17 and worked in a book
warehouse, and later in trade and law publishing. His first
book The Crime Studio, published in 1994, was generally regarded as a cry for help. This was followed
by Bigot Hall, Slaughtermatic, The Inflatable Volunteer, Toxicology,
Atom, Shamanspace and Only an Alligator. He's published by Orion in the UK
and Four Walls Eight Windows in the US, and was a finalist for the 1998 Philip K Dick Award (for Slaughtermatic).