Terry Bisson is the author of Talking Man, Fire on the Mountain, Wyrldmaker,
Voyage to the Red Planet, the classic Bears Discover Fire, and Pirates of the
Universe. The website features the Terry Bisson STORY SHOWCASE of uncollected short stories
and articles, including the 1995 Hugo nominee "Dead Man's Curve" ("The idea for Dead Man's Curve
came from a news report I read long ago, about a tree-lined stretch of highway in France that
triggered epileptic seizures in certain drivers at certain speeds.")
James P. Blaylock
Living in Orange CA with his wife, Viki, and children, James Blaylock teaches creative
writing at Chapman University. He was born in 1950 in Long Beach
and he studied English at California State University (Fullerton) where he received an MA
in 1974.
Margaret Wander Bonanno
Margaret Wander Bonanno is perhaps best known for her Star Trek writing.
Her novels include Strangers from the Sky and Dwellers in the Crucible (1985).
She wrote Saturn's Child (1995) with Nichelle Nichols as well as
Preternatural and Preternatural Too: Gyre.
Ben Bova
Ben Bova received his doctorate in education in 1996 from California
Coast University, a master of arts degree in communications from the
State University of New York at Albany (1987) and a bachelor's degree in journalism from Temple University,
Philadelphia (1954). Bova has taught science fiction at Harvard University and at the
Hayden Planetarium in New York City, where he has also directed film courses.
He was editorial director of OMNI magazine and, earlier, editor of
Analog magazine. He has received Hugos for Best Professional Editor
six times. His 1994 short story, "Inspiration," was nominated for the SFWA's
Nebula Award.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marion Zimmer Bradley was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley
in 1949. Mrs Bradley received her B.A. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Texas, then
did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67.
She sold her first professional story to Vortex Science Fiction in 1952, and has
since written numerous novels, among them: Mists of Avalon, The Firebrand, and
the Darkover series. She editing installments of Sword and Sorceress since
1984. Marion Zimmer Bradley died in 1999.
David Brin
David Brin is a scientist and SF author who has won three Hugo Awards, two for Best Novel.
His 1989 thriller Earth foresaw both global warming and the World Wide Web. A movie with
Kevin Costner was loosely based on The Postman and Startide Rising is in pre-production.
Brin's non-fiction book -- The Transparent Society: Will Technology Make Us Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? --
deals with threats to openness and liberty in the new wired-age. His latest novel, Foundation's Triumph,
brings to a grand finale Isaac Asimov's famed Foundation Universe. David is heavily involved in efforts
to help use SF to benefit younger readers -- Webs of Wonder.
Photo by Fred A. Levy Haskell
Steven Brust
Steven Brust is the author of the Vlad Taltos series (information on which
can be found at the excellent Dragaera
page) and the The Phoenix Guards books: The Phoenix Guards, Five Hundred Years After,
and The Viscount of Adrilankha Trilogy (forthcoming) ; as well as Brokedown Palace,.
To Reign in Hell, Agyar, The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars,
and others. The site includes cover scans and thumbnail images of most of the cover art.
Emma Bull
Emma Bull has written four novels, including War for the Oaks (Ace Books, 1987),
and Bone Dance (Ace, 1991), and is a member of the band Cats Laughing. With her husband, Will Shetterly, founded SteelDragon
Press in 1983 to publish comic books and limited edition quality hardcovers.
With her husband she also edited the Liavek fantasy anthologies. The site includes a complete
Emma Bull Bibliography.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1949. She attended Ohio State
and later worked as a pharmacy technician at the Ohio State University Hospitals. She has two children
and now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Her first novel, Shards of Honor, was completed in 1983 and published in 1986.
Her first professional sale was a story in 1984 to Twilight Zone Magazine.
Falling Free was her first Nebula Award. Since then she has won another and 3 Hugo Awards.