Interaction Program Participant Biographies

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Aleta Jackson

One of XCOR Aerospace's founders, Jackson has been in the aerospace field since 1966. She has worked on Project Gemini and the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), America's first manned space station (built, never launched). She was managing editor for the Journal of Practical Applications in Space, and was part of the Delta Clipper DC-X project. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published in Analog, the Washington Post, and others. XCOR has built several generations of liquid-fuelled rocket engines, and has flown the EZ-Rocket, a rocket powered Long-EZ. XCOR is now working on suborbital transportation for tourists and others.

John Jarrold

I've been editorial director of three SF/Fantasy imprints in the UK since 1988 (with Time Warner, Random House and Simon & Schuster), and I now work as a freelance editor and publishing adviser.

Ben Jeapes

Ben Jeapes Ben Jeapes was over-exposed as a child to Gerry Anderson, Dr Who, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. The sad inevitability of all this is that he is now the author of 18 published short stories and four novels: His Majesty's Starship, Winged Chariot, The Xenocide Mission and The New World Order. As the pseudonymous Sebastian Rook he has also written the first Vampire Plagues trilogy for younger readers. For a couple of glorious years he was proprietor of the Big Engine small SF/fantasypress but now earns an honest crust as Documentation Officer for the JANET network.

Janet Johnston

Janet Johnston began costuming, sewing, actually, for Noreascon II (1980), the first convention she ever attended, in Boston in 1980. She has been in several award-winning masquerade presentations at Eastercons -- "When the Bat's Away, the Brides will Play" (Best in Show), "Diplomatic Encounter" (Helicon) -- and Costume Cons, and her group entry "Arctic Circle" won the Journeyman Workmanship award and Best-in-Show at Noreacon IV this past year. She is a (so far unpublished) science fiction writer, a singer, and Middle Eastern dance teacher. She's especially interested in showcasing how costumes move on stage and taking full advantage of tech resources, such as lighting effects. She's a resident of Plum Island, Massachusetts, but was lucky enough to befriend the British costuming community when her job sent her to London for four years. In real life she's a physicist who runs space experiments.

Stephen Jones

Stephen Jones is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, three Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards and three International Horror Guild Awards, as well as being a Hugo Award nominee and a sixteen-times recipient of the British Fantasy Award. One of Britain's most acclaimed anthologists of horror and dark fantasy, he has more than eighty books to his credit, including The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror series (sixteen volumes), Horror: Another 100 Best Books (with Kim Newman), Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth and the recent Leigh Brackett Fantasy Masterworks collection Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories. 

Jeana Jorgensen

Jeana Jorgensen Jeana Jorgensen is a graduate student in Folklore at Indiana University. While she has been a fan of speculative fiction since childhood, her academic involvement is fairly recent. Her research topics include fairy tales, both in folklore and literature (ranging from children's fiction to erotica); anime; and gaming culture.

Graham Joyce

Graham Joyce Winner of the World Fantasy Award for The Facts Of Life, Dr Graham Joyce has also been awarded the French Grand Prix De L'Imaginaire  and is four-times winner of the British Fantasy Award. He has published ten novels, the latest of which is The Limits of Enchantment. He has a PhD in Literature and teaches Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University.

Jordin Kare

Jordin Kare is a Rocket Scientist and freelance space system designer. He has a Ph.D. in astrophysics, and is the designer of two different interstellar propulsion systems, as well as a leading expert on laser propulsion. He's also a long-time fan who attended his first convention in 1975, a well-known filker, and a fast man with a pun.

Mary Kay Kare

Mary Kay has been reading fantasy and SF since she was quite young, and she's been going to cons for 29 years. She has worked on conventions ranging in size from Worldcons to 100 people in positions ranging from Chair to gopher. The best thing she has gotten from fandom is her husband Jordin Kare, Generic Handwaving Physicist, Rocket Scientist, and Filker of Note. Second best is a collection of friends all over the world.In mundane life she is a retired librarian living in Seattle with her husband, two cats, and thousands upon thousands of books. They travel too much but love it; most recently having fallen in love with Tokyo. (No, only a small subset of the books go and the cats almost never.)

Keith G Kato

Keith G. Kato has been in fandom since 1972, and is known for hosting the infamous Chili Party for 30 years. In the mundane world, he is a plasma physicist (and former PhD student of SF author Greg Benford) who works for Raytheon's Advanced Electromagnetic Technologies Center and advanced R&D group. He has trained in Kodokan judo and Shotokan karate since 1964, and was Head Instructor for the Orange County Karate Club in California.

Jerry Kaufman

Jerry Kaufman, spouse of TAFF delegate Suzanne Tompkins, has been active in science fiction fandom for decades as writer, fanzine publisher, small press publisher, convention organizer, auctioneer, club and apa founder, DUFF delegate, etc. He currently publishes a fanzine called Littlebrook, with Suzanne.

Roz Kaveney

I am a critic and writer whose most recent publication is From Alien to The Matrix -- Reading Science Fiction Film (IB Tauris). I am currently working on -- actually, by the con will probably have finished -- Teen Dreams: From Heathers to Veronica Mars, and a big fantasy novel. In the rest of my time, I do fanfic and activism and review music...

Tony Keen

Tony Keen is a noted UK fan writer, and editor of the fanzine Halo of Flies. He also teaches Roman History part-time for the Open University, and has written a number of papers on the reception of the Greek and Roman classics in Science Fiction.

Mark Kelly

Mark R. Kelly is editor and webmaster of Locus Online since 1997, and won the first Hugo Award for Best Website at the San Jose Worldcon in 2002. He created and compiled the Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards. From 1988 to 2001 he contributed short fiction reviews to Locus Magazine.

Sylvia Kelso

Sylvia Kelso lives in North Queensland, Australia. Her first fantasy novel, Everran's Bane, was released in June 2005 and her first short story, “Slick,” published in December 2004, but she has published poetry in an Australian national women's anthology, and has a Creative Writing MA for an alternate history/SF novel set in alternate North Queenslands. She also has a PhD in, among other things, feminism and science fiction, and has published articles in Science Fiction Studies, Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts, and The New York Review of Science Fiction.  She lives in a house with a lot of trees in the garden, but no cats or dogs. She makes up for this by playing an Irish whistle.

Paul Kincaid

I am administrator of the Arthur C.Clarke Award, author of the occasional short story, regular contributor to numerous critical journals and reference books. My collection of essays and reviews, What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction, is published by Borgo Press.

William King

William King is an author and game designer based in the Czech Republic. He has published 12 Warhammer related novels and won two Origins awards, one for his work on Warhammer 40000 and the other for Warzone. He has also published a number of short stories in Interzone and other places. His most recent novel, Death's Angels is due soon from Polaris in the Czech Republic and Piper in Germany.

Conor Kostick

I grew up in Chester, that walled city full of the remains of its Roman and Medieval past. I worked as a designer for the world's first live role-playing game, Treasure Trap, based in Peckforton Castle, Cheshire. I was drawn into a world of class conflict by the great Miners' Strike of 1984-5, before eventually moving to Ireland. I currently teach medieval history at Trinity College Dublin. My latest book is Epic, a fantasy novel set in a world where your fate is determined by your success or failure in a universal role-playing game.

Grant Kruger

Grant Kruger is a South African fan living in Mississippi. He's been in fandom since age 10, and is actively involved on both sides of the fannish pond. He writes for fanzines (fanzines, con reports, and articles), has been on staff for four Worldcons so far (several jobs for Interaction), and is a fannish evangelist who loves to make neos feel welcome and comfortable in fandom and at Worldcons. Grant loves international fandom and fannish diversity. You can find him hosting the annual South African party (Worldcon Saturday) and giving away free "I Love Worldcon" buttons.

Ellen Kushner

Author, performer and public radio personality Ellen Kushner is the author of the novels Swordspoint and Thomas the Rhymer (World Fantasy Award) and The Fall of the Kings (with Delia Sherman).  She hosts and writes the national public radio series Sound & Spirit, available online at http://www.wgbh.org/spirit. Live shows:  Esther: the Feast of Masks (2004 Gracie Allen Award), and The Golden Dreydl:  a Klezmer Nutcracker for Chanukah (with Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, on Rykodisc cd). She is a proud member of Terri Windling's Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts (http://www.endicott-studio.com), and a co-founder of the Interstitial Arts Movement  (http://www.interstitialarts.org/). She lives in Boston, spends as much time as she can in Paris, and is moving to New York soon with her partner, Delia Sherman.

David A Kyle

Dave Kyle was a teen-aged fanzine publisher, one of the founders of legendary First Fandom. His career in science fiction has been extremely varied as novelist, short-story writer, anthologist, illustrator, book designer, editor, literary agent, and active force in the very earliest and present-day worlds of fandom. He attended the first ever SF-con in Philadelphia, 1936, the first Worldcon in NYC, 1939, and chaired the 14th Worldcon in NYC, 1956. After Air Force service in World War II, he co-founded pioneering Gnome Press, first to publish, in hardcover, novels by Sir Arthur C Clarke, Robert E Howard, Isaac Asimov, and early Robert A Heinlein. Kyle has collected an array of honors and was chosen one of "The Hundred Most Important People in Science Fiction/Fantasy" by Starlog magazine. His two large-sized, profusely illustrated history books on science fiction have won awards. "As one of the most illustrious figures in science fiction, there is scarcely an area of the field that has not seen the influence of David Kyle," says I-Con at SUNY which honors him as a perpetual guest.

Jay Lake

Jay Lake is the winner of the 2004 John W Campbell Award, as well as past Hugo and World Fantasy Award nominee. His most recent collection, Dogs In the Moonlight, received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly, while much of his work as both a writer and an editor has made the Locus Recommended reading list. Lake lives in Portland, Oregon.

Dave Lally

I am running non-anime video programming and also am Eurocon liaison for Interaction. I'm also involved with a bit of con running, usually on the vid/media side (already involved with the UK Eastercons, Novacons, and Octcons). Have attended overseas cons; was Fan GoH at Swecon (Stockholm, 2004); Fan GoH at fantasticon.dk (this year's 2005 Danish NatSFCon in Copenhagen).

Geoffrey A Landis

Geoffrey A Landis is a scientist and science-fiction writer. He works on the Mars Exploration Rovers science team, and has written scientific papers on subjects from interstellar travel to semiconductor physics. He won Hugo Awards for the stories "A Walk in the Sun," and "Falling onto Mars," and a Nebula for "Ripples in the Dirac Sea."  His novel Mars Crossing won the Locus award for best first novel. His collection Impact Parameter (and other quantum realities) was named a notable book of 2001 by Publisher's Weekly. He lives in Ohio with his wife, writer Mary Turzillo. 

David Langford

David Langford was born in 1953 and has published many books, stories, reviews, and magazine columns since 1975. He currently writes for every issue of SFX and Interzone, and edits the sf newsletter Ansible. Langford has won 18 Hugo Awards as fanwriter, 5 for Ansible as fanzine, and one for best short story – the title piece of his collection Different Kinds of Darkness (Cosmos 2004). Other recent books gather his SF criticism as Up Through a Empty House of Stars and his parodies as He Do the Time Police in Different Voices (both Cosmos 2003). Visit the online Ansible archive.

Justine Larbalestier

Justine Larbalestier is loudly Australian. She slaved in archives around the world (but mostly at Sydney University's Fisher Library), and interviewed gazillions of science fiction luminaries to research her first book, the Hugo shortlisted Battle Of the Sexes in Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press, 2002). Writing her first novel, Magic or Madness (Penguin/Razorbill, 2005), required much less effort. The sequel, Magic Lessons, will be out in 2006. Her first (and most likely last) anthology, Daughters of Earth, will be out from Wesleyan in 2006. She is married to Aurealis Award-winning Scott Westerfeld. 

Glenda Larke

Glenda Larke (aka Glenda Noramly) is an Australian who has lived on four continents, muddled along in several different languages and cultures, and held down too many different jobs to count. She now lives in Malaysia where she works on rainforest conservation and writes fantasy, and sometimes thinks the former is also the latter. She has four books published (Havenstar, The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted) and has been twice shortlisted for the Australian Aurealis Awards for the best fantasy novel of the year. She has a trilogy, The Mirage Makers, coming out in 2006-7. 

Knud Larn

Knud Larn was born 1965 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has been a science fiction fan and magazine collector for decades. During this time he has published several Danish fanzines. He studied English at Copenhagen University in the 1980s, and is currently working with postcolonial issues in science fiction. He is a board member of Science Fiction Cirklen, Denmark's oldest SF organization since 1974, and edits the club magazine Novum. Knud Larn also publishes his own current fanzine, Science Fiction, a bimonthly international oriented but Danish language fanzine that reviews new English, German, French, and Scandinavian SF books, film, and magazines, as well as translates international SF short stories into the Danish language. He speaks English, German and Danish.

Alice Lawson

I have been in fandom since 1987. I am primarily involved in running conventions including worldcon, Eastercon, and Novacon. I try and ensure that there is serious fun at these conventions and do not mind making a fool of myself to that end.

Fred Lerner

Fred Lerner has been a librarian and bibliographer for thirty years, and was one of the founders of the Science Fiction Research Association. He is the author of Modern Science Fiction and the American Literary Community and The Story of Libraries: From the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age, and editor of A Silverlock Companion. His first published story, “Rosetta Stone,” has been described by anthologist David Hartwell as "the only SF story I know in which the science is library science." He lives in White River Junction, Vermont.

David D Levine

David D Levine has sold about twenty stories to publications including Asimov's, F&SF, Realms of Fantasy, and three Year's Best volumes (two Fantasy, one SF). He's also collected a Writers of the Future award, a James White award, and nominations for the Hugo and the John W. Campbell Awards. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Kate Yule, where they edit the fanzine Bento. In his spare time he builds death rays and rocket packs and plots world domination.

Rowena Lindquist (Cory Daniells)

Rowena (Cory Daniells) Lindquist is an Australian author of fantasy. Her T'En trilogy sold in Australia the US and Germany. She is Vice President of Fantastic Queensland, which runs Clarion South, EnVision Novel Workshop, the Australian Spec Fic Awards (Aurealis Awards) and the National Con in April 2006. She has six children and in her spare time she learns two martial arts, Aikido and Iaido, the art of the Samurai sword.

Kelly Link

Kelly Link is the author of the collections Stranger Things Happen and Magic for Beginners. With her husband, Gavin J. Grant, she runs Small Beer Press, produces the zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and co-edits the fantasy half of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Her short fiction has won a Nebula, World Fantasy, and James Tiptree, Jr Award.

Therese Littleton

Therese Littleton is associate curator at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle, Washingon, US. A former marine biologist and Amazon.com editor, she has written about science and science fiction for such publications as Asimov's, The Seattle Times, Publishers Weekly, Amazing Stories, and the New York Times Book Review. She is also co-owner of the independent literary press Payseur & Schmidt.

Elizabeth Lloyd-Kimbrel

Elizabeth Dominique Lloyd-Kimbrel,who reads widely and deeply and has never been to a Worldcon, is the assistant to a vice president at Mount Holyoke College as well as a freelance editor and writer whose avocational interests and academic research have, for decades, circled around and delved into matters biographical and mediaeval, especially Arthurian and Chaucerian (an appreciative nod here to Connie Willis's Domesday Book). Elizabeth's graduate degree in English is from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, with postgraduate work in mediaeval studies at Oxford University, McGill University, and the University of York (UK). She has published poetry and criticism in various literary and scholarly journals, such as Mediaevistik and The Robert Frost Review, with a fantasy/fable awaiting publication in Bestia, the Beast Fable Society's journal; her biographical essays and briefs appear in numerous reference texts, including OUP's American National Biography, St. James Press's Guide to Biography, and Schlager's Science and Its Times; and she also serves on the advisory board of Paris Press of Ashfield, Massachusetts. Elizabeth would like to be a professional reader when she grows up.

James Lovegrove

Born Christmas Eve 1965.  Degree  in English Literature from Oxford. Professional author since 1988. Published novels include The Hope, Escardy Gap (cowritten with Peter Crowther), Days (shortlisted for the 1998 Clarke Award), The Foreigners, Untied Kingdom, and Worldstorm. Forthcoming in Sept 2005: Provender Gleed.  Days has recently appeared in French and Russian editions. Other published works include the novella "How the Other Half Lives," the double-novella "Gig," and a short-story collection Imagined Slights. I have written three short books for teenage reluctant readers, with a fourth to come, and I am currently working on my first full-length young adult novel. I live in rural North Devon with my wife Lou, our son Monty, and our cat Ozzy. I am also a professional compiler of cryptic crosswords.

Karin Lowachee

Karin Lowachee's first novel Warchild won the 2001 Warner Aspect First Novel Contest, was published in 2002 and was a finalist for the Philip K Dick Award. Her second novel Burndive was published in 2003 and debuted at #7 on the Locus Bestseller List. Karin was twice nominated for the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer and her third book Cagebird was released in April 2005. She is currently writing her fourth novel.

Dave Luckett

Dave Luckett, Australian SFF writer for children and YA. Published in USA, and (in translation) Italy, Poland, and Germany. Most recent titles: The Rhianna Chronicles (Rhianna and the Wild Magic, Rhianna and the Dogs of Iron, Rhianna and the Castle of Avalon) and (in Australia) The Truth About Magic ,and (non-fiction) Iron Soldiers. Won two Aurealis Awards:  1997, for Best Fantasy Novel; 1998, for Best YA. Also reasonably well known as a filker; was Interfilk guest at Conchord, 2002. "Dice Lice Blues" and "The Parasite's Anthem" are my best-known songs.

Duncan Lunan

Duncan Lunan is a science and science fiction writer and a former SF critic and SF short story competition organizer for the Glasgow Herald. He is Treasurer and Past President of ASTRA, the Scottish spaceflight society and curator of Airdrie Public Observatory. He designed and built the first astronomically aligned stone circle for 4000 years, in Glasgow, 1979. Duncan has written three books on spaceflight, edited one SF anthology, and contributed to 15 other books. Additionally, he has written 30 short stories and approximately 600 articles.

Nicki Lynch

Nicki Lynch is a long time fan, software tester (currently in career limbo), member of the Washington Science Fiction Association, quilter specializing in miniature quilts, frequent Worldcon attendee, fanzine publisher emeritus, and multiple Hugo Award winner. She still reads fantasy and science fiction as well as watching it on TV and the movies.

Richard Lynch

Rich Lynch is a fan history enthusiast and was co-editor of the six-time Hugo Award winning fanzine Mimosa. In the real world, he is an international trade specialist for an agency of the US Government.

Ian R Macleod

I've mostly been known over the past decade for my short fiction, which has appeared in most of the major genre titles, won many awards, and been widely anthologised and re-published. In more recent times I've been concentrating on novels. The Light Ages, a big alternate world fantasy, appeared in 2003, and its follow up The House of Storms, another big fantasy, is out now.

Ken MacLeod

Ken MacLeod is the author of nine novels. His latest, Learning the World, has just been published in the UK by Orbit, and will be published in the US by Tor. He has a story in the new anthology of Scottish SF and fantasy, Nova Scotia.

Christine Mains

Christine Mains is a PhD candidate at University of Calgary, working on a dissertation on the transmission of knowledge-power in science fiction and fantasy. Her academic interests include American fantasist Patricia McKillip, Canadian writers Charles de Lint and Guy Gavriel Kay, fairy tales, Arthurian fantasy, science fantasy, fan fiction, and the TV show Stargate.

Sandra Manning

I have been helping with masquerades since the mid-1980s. I have been involved in costuming since the late '70s and have been a member of Costumers Guild West for many years. When I'm not doing masquerades or convention things,  I teach a variety of subjects on a very very remote island off the coast of Alaska.

Jim Mann

Jim Mann works on conventions (and is the Deputy Division Head for Programme for Interaction). He also edits books for NESFA Press, including books by Cordwainer Smith, William Tenn, and John W. Campbell. He is married to Laurie Mann.

Laurie Mann

Active in fandom since 1974, I've run cons, bid for and worked on Worldcons, and maintained websites including AwardWeb and Dead People Server.  For Noreascon IV, I helped out with Exhibits and edited William Tenn's Hugo nominated Best Related Book Dancing Naked.  For Interaction, I'm both Programme and Publicity staff. I'm married to Jim, and we're going to be Fan GoHs at the upcoming Armadillocon. Our daughter, Leslie, is finishing up a software degree. A technical typesetter and technical writer for 20 years, I'm now a freelance writer and website developer, and am working on a contemporary novel about my favorite subjects (movies, computers, and sex). 

Darlene Marshall

Darlene Marshall (Eve Ackerman) is the author of Pirate's Price, Smuggler's Bride, and Captain Sinister's Lady (2006), historical romance novels set in 19th century Florida. Marshall has lived in North Florida all of her adult life and spent most of that time working as a broadcast news reporter, news director, drug abuse education and prevention specialist, and radio station owner. She now writes full time and is hard at work on her next Florida-based pirate novel. In her Eve Ackerman persona Marshall is a longtime SF fan, a member of SFPA (Southern Fandom Press Alliance) and past member of MYRIAD, LASFAPA and other APAs. Her work has appeared in Mimosa, Challenger, and other Hugo nominated and award-winning zines.

George R R Martin

George R.R. Martin was born September 20, 1948 in Bayonne. He began writing very young, selling monster stories to other neighborhood children for pennies, dramatic readings included. He became a comic book fan and collector in high school, and began to write fiction for comic fanzines (amateur fan magazines). Martin's first professional sale was made in 1970 at age 21: "The Hero," sold to Galaxy, published in February 1971. Other sales followed. As a conscientious objector, Martin did alternative service 1972-1974 with VISTA, attached to Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation. He wrote part-time throughout the 1970s while working as a VISTA Volunteer, chess director, and teacher. Martin became a full-time writer in 1979. Moving on to Hollywood, Martin signed on as a story editor for Twilight Zone at CBS Television in 1986. In 1987 Martin became an Executive Story Consultant for Beauty and the Beast at CBS. In 1988 he became a Producer for Beauty and the Beast, then in 1989 moved up to Co-Supervising Producer. He was Executive Producer for Doorways, a pilot that he wrote for Columbia Pictures Television, which was filmed during 1992-93. Martin's present home is Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a member of Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (he was South-Central Regional Director 1977-1979, and Vice President 1996-1998), and of Writers' Guild of America, West.

Sue Mason

I joined fandom in 1982, since then I've been a filker, a gamer, anime fan, a conrunner, a costumer, comics fan, and dealer selling craft stuff. In 2000 I won TAFF, the Transatlantic Fan Fund, and had a marvelous time in the US making new friends there too. Most people know me for my fan art which has been in fanzines and con publications for decades, and I won the fan art Hugo Award in 2003. 

David Mattingly

David Mattingly was born in Fort Collins, Colorado. He has produced over 800 covers for most major publishers of SF and fantasy, including Baen, Bantam, DAW, Del Rey, Dell, Marvel, Omni, Playboy, Signet, and Tor. He illustrated the popular Honor Harrington, The Wizard of 4th St., and Pellucidar series. David has worked in motion pictures over the years, and was head of the Walt Disney Studios matte department in the early 1980s.  David most recently worked on I, Robot for Weta Digital in New Zealand. Other clients include Lucasfilm, Universal Studios, and Paramount Studios.

Juraj "Mad" Maxon

Juraj "Mad" Maxon has illustrated over 100 books, and has been an active member of Czech and Slovak SF fandom for over than 15 years. Previously the editor of Slovak SF magazine Fantasia, today he works as an conceptual artist for videogame industry.

Paul McAuley

Paul McAuley has worked as a research biologist in various universities, including Oxford and UCLA, and for six years was a lecturer in botany at St Andrews University, and is now a fulltime writer. His first novel, Four Hundred Billion Stars, won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, and his fifth, Fairyland, won the Arthur C. Clarke and John W. Campbell Awards. His latest novels are White Devils and Mind's Eye, and a short story collection, Little Machines, was recently published by PS Publishing. He lives in North London.

Parris McBride

Parris McBride is starting her thirty-first year living her life inside American fandom. Among her fannish accomplishments are helping to make the Lime Jello, working on the annual Hugo Losers parties from the first gathering of Losers at Big Mac in 1976, until people got a stick up their collective butts and got all offical and shit, as well as advocating for real and hoax bids, because any excuse for a party is good enough for her. An inititiated Witch and life-long political junkie, she is considering seeking asylum in her ancestral homeland of Ireland if things keep going the way they're going in the USA.

Todd McCaffrey

Todd Johnson McCaffrey wrote his first science-fiction story when he was twelve and has been writing on and off ever since. His books include the Dragonriders of Pern books Dragonsblood, Dragon's Kin (with Anne McCaffrey), and the non-fiction work, Dragonholder. As Todd Johnson he has written several military SF stories, designed a board game, and written for animation.  He is currently working on two collaborations with Anne McCaffrey (aka "Mum"), following the characters of Dragon's Kin.

Oisin McGann

Born in Dublin, Oisin McGann studied at Dun Laoghaire School of Art and Design, and went on to work in illustration, design, and film animation, later moving to London to work as an art director and copy writer in advertising. He now lives in Drogheda and works as a freelance illustrator and artist. He is the author of three novels; The Gods And Their Machines, The Harvest Tide Project, and its sequel Under Fragile Stone, published by The O'Brien Press, as well as a number of books for young children.

Bridget McKenna

Bridget McKenna's short fiction has appeared in Amazing Stories, Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and many other magazines and anthologies. She was shortlisted for the Hugo and Nebula Awards for her short story, "The Good Pup," published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, and has had half a dozen crime novels published in the US. She is co-publisher of Scorpius Digital Publishing, and co-editor of Aeon Speculative Fiction.

Juliet E McKenna

I've always been fascinated by other worlds and other peoples; my earliest reading was myths and folktales, the Narnia books and The Hobbit. After studying Greek and Roman history and literature at St Hilda's, Oxford University, I worked in human resources before a career change to combine book-selling and motherhood. My first novel, The Thief's Gamble, appeared in 1999, beginning The Tales of Einarinn series, now translated into a dozen languages. I'm currently working on The Aldabreshin Compass sequence, taking time out occasionally to write shorter fiction including Doctor Who stories, Einarinn short stories and the novella "Turns and Chances." 

Sean McMullen

Sean McMullen is one Australia's leading SF and fantasy authors, and lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughter. He is the winner of a dozen awards for SF and fantasy, and has had ten books and fifty stories published. He writes both adult and young adult fiction, and has been published in Australia, the USA, Britain, France, Poland, and Japan. Outside his writing, Sean works in scientific computing, has played in rock and folk bands, has done armored and traditional fencing, and has been a karate instructor in the university club for twenty years.

Patrick McMurray

Pat is a conrunner, GUFF winner, Chair of the British Science Fiction Association, Founding Member of the Bid Committee for Glasgow in 2005, and a fannish archivist. In short, a busy fannish person.

Janet McNaughton

Janet McNaughton is a young adult writer with a PhD in folklore who lives in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Her seven novels have won ten awards. The Secret Under My Skin, her science fiction novel, was released in Canada by HarperCollins in 2000, and in the US under the Eos imprint of HarperCollins in 2004. She is just completing a sequel.

Geneva Melzack

Geneva is a philosophy grad student who writes for and edits the fanzines Thought Experiments and Meta.

Franz Miklis

Franz Miklis has been an SF and Fantasy Artist since 1979. His main focus is on Space Opera artwork and Dream-art. He has been published mainly in magazines and books in Germany, and has done about one dozen book-covers. Recent publications include collectible cards for Fantasy Flight Games: A Game of Thrones (George R.R. Martin) and collectible card game Phase V (Perry Rhodan) and illustrations for stories by George R.R. Martin and Cordwainer Smith. I really like to paint SF and Fantasy and some Dark Visions. But my love is to create paintings inspired by wonderful space opera, at the moment for example art inspired by Iain Banks' Culture Series.

Craig Miller

Craig Miller has been working in the entertainment industry for more years than he cares to admit. He started out in movie marketing, working on such films as Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Altered States, Splash, and Excalibur. More recently, he's been writing and producing television. He co-created and produced the animated series Pocket Dragon Adventures and is currently working on several other shows, including Curious George. Most of his work has been in children's television but he's also written scripts such as the pilot episode for Showtime's horror anthology series The Hunger. He's been a guest speaker on writing for films, television, and games at conventions, trade shows, film festivals, colleges, etc. throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. He's been in fandom even longer than he's been working in Hollywood.  He's a member of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (LASFS); has edited fanzines (Flights of Fantasy and SFinctor, the fannish news release; etc.), and run conventions (including chairman, L.A.con II, the 1984 Worldcon; head of program division, L.A.con III, the 1996 Worldcon; and Vice Chairman & head of the program division for the upcoming 2006 L.A.con IV).

Deborah J Miller

Deborah J. Miller has been attending conventions for the last 6 years -- mainly Eastercons in the UK -- this will only be her second Worldcon. The first installment of her new trilogy is to be published by Tor UK this autumn. The series is titled, Swarmthief's Dance. Deborah also has a story, "Vanilla for the Lady," in the new Nova Scotia anthology from Mercat Press, which features great Scottish authors and will be being launched at Interaction...

Petrea Mitchell

Petrea Mitchell attended the 1975 Boksone as a fetus and has been wandering in and out of the varied threads of fandom ever since. She presently maintains The Akashic Record, a Harry Potter website, and occasionally manages to publish an issue of her fanzine, Picofarad.

Rebecca Moesta

Rebecca Moesta (pronounced MESS-tuh) is the  author or coauthor of thirty books, among which are Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Little Things, and three novels in the Star Wars:  Junior Jedi Knights series. With her husband, bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson, Moesta wrote all 14 volumes of the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Star Wars:  Young Jedi Knights series.  Moesta and Anderson also wrote Starcraft: Shadow of the Xel'naga  based on the bestselling video game, two original novels based on Fox's animated feature film Titan A.E., several short stories, two pop-up books, the graphic novel Star Trek TNG:  The Gorn Crisis, and the four-issue humorous comic series Grumpy Old Monsters. Moesta is the daughter on an English teacher/author/Bible scholar, and a nurse -- from whom she learned, respectively, her love of words and her love of books. She holds an MSBA from Boston University, has taught every grade level from kindergarten through junior college, and worked for seven years as a publications specialist and technical editor at Lawrence Livermore National laboratory. Moesta is currently working on a teen comedy/romance novel. She and Anderson are also coauthoring the Crystal Doors young adult series for Little, Brown.

Klaus Æ Mogensen

Klaus Mogensen has been a professional futurist since 2001. He is also a part-time writer, having had published one novel and about two score short stories, mostly in Denmark. Klaus is one of Denmark's most active faneds, having edited four fanzines with a total of 60+ issues. He is also involved in running conventions and has done close to one hundred presentations, panels, quizzes, and workshops for Danish conventions and club meetings. His main points of interest are written science fiction and fantasy, but he is also a big comics and anime fan and is involved in role-playing, with a particular interest in game design.

David Moles

John W. Campbell Award finalist David Moles was born on the anniversary of the R.101 disaster. He has lived in six time zones on three continents, and hopes some day to collect the whole set. He co-edited All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories with Jay Lake, and is co-editing the forthcoming Twenty Epics with Susan Marie Groppi of Strange Horizons. His fiction and poetry have been published in various places. His favorite color is blue and his favorite impractical vehicle is the Citroen 2cv.

Murray Moore

Although I have convention running credits (Montreal World Fantasy Con (2001), Ditto 15 (2002), Torcon 3 (2003)), my subfandom is fanzine fandom. I started reading fanzines in 1968; joined my first apa in 1972; attended my first fanzine convention in 1994. Currently I publish Moz for the Australia and New Zealand Amateur Press Association (ANZAPA). In 2001 I was the Canadian Unity Fan Fund (CUFF) delegate to that year's Canvention held in conjunction with VCon 26 in Vancouver, B.C. In early 2005 during Corflu Titanium in San Francisco I was Corflu 22's Guest of Honor. 

Richard Morgan

Richard Morgan was born in London in 1965, grew up in the Fens, studied at Queens' College Cambridge, taught English as a Foreign Language variously in Madrid, London, Istanbul, Glasgow, and Ankara, and tried without success to become a published author for fourteen years. In 2002 his first novel, Altered Carbon, was published by Gollancz and shortly thereafter optioned for a Hollywood movie by Joel Silver and Warner Brothers. Perhaps not surprisingly, he now no longer teaches. He is the author of three other novels; Broken Angels, Market Forces (also optioned for film by Warner), and Woken Furies, and was writer on the Black Widow Marvel comicbook collection Homecoming. He currently lives in Glasgow with his Spanish wife Virginia, and is hard -- yeah, *right* -- at work on a new SF novel, provisionally titled Black Man.

Oliver Morton

Oliver Morton is a contributing editor at Wired, and his writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Nature, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Hollywood Reporter (but alas, only once). His sadly neglected blog can be found at mainlymartian.blogs.com. His first book, Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World (2002) was shortlisted for both the Guardian First Book Award and the British Science Fiction Award for best related book. He is currently writing Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet, a look at photosynthesis that tries to bring out connections between the molecular and the planetary.

Caroline Mullan

Caroline Mullan spent fifteen years reading science fiction before arriving at her first convention, Seacon '79. Since then she has read many more books, magazines, and fanzines; contributed to BSFA publications and fanzines; enjoyed SF cons on three continents; and run cons of all sizes (Beccon, Unicon, several UK Eastercons, and four European Worldcons). She is a Trustee of the SF Foundation and was a judge for the Clarke Award (2000/2001). Her intense curiosity about the world was bred and fed by science fiction, and she continues to pursue her enquiries at cons and elsewhere.

Robin Elizabeth Munro

Robin is 24 years old, has a B.A. in English (she studied at St. Andrews and took her degree from Tulane in New Orleans), she worked as a reporter for In Dance magazine in San Francisco and for Willamette Week newspaper in Portland. This fall she will enter the University of Oregon to secure her Master's degree in literary non-fiction technique. Robin is Robert Sheckley's daughter.

Kim Newman

Novelist, critic and broadcaster Kim Newman has worked extensively in the theatre, radio and television. His novels include The Night Mayor, Anno Dracula, The Quorum, Back in the USSA (with Eugene Byrne), and Life's Lottery. His non-fiction books include Ghastly Beyond Belief (with Neil Gaiman), Horror: 100 Best Books (with Stephen Jones), Nightmare Movies, The BFI Companion to Horror, Millennium Movies, and BFI Film Classics: Cat People. He works frequently on radio and television, has directed a short film (Missing Girl), written screenplays and written for a wide variety of publications and periodicals.

Stan Nicholls

Stan's Orcs: First Blood trilogy has sold over 200,000 copies worldwide. His twenty-third book, Quicksilver Twilight, appears October 2005 (Voyager). He's writing a new Orcs trilogy for Gollancz. Other titles include Strange Invaders, Fade to Black, The Nightshade Chronicles, and Wordsmiths of Wonder. He adapted two David Gemmell titles as graphic novels; novelised Dark Skies, and wrote Gerry Anderson's biography. Stan co-owned London bookstore Bookends; managed Dark They Were and Golden Eyed, and was Forbidden Planet's first manager. He reviewed SF/fantasy for Time Out magazine for six years. He's married to psychotherapist/author Anne Nicholls, who writes SF/fantasy as Anne Gay. 

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Patrick Nielsen Hayden is an anthologist, book editor, and fan. His original anthology series Starlight won the World Fantasy Award.With his wife Teresa Nielsen Hayden, he co-edited the fanzines Telos and Izzard and won TAFF in 1985. With Jane Yolen, he is the editor of the annual Year's Best SF and Fantasy for Teens. He also writes a weblog about politics and culture called Electrolite, and plays guitar and sings with the New York City band Whisperado. He works as the manager of SF and fantasy for Tor Books. The Nielsen Haydens won NESFA's Skylark Award in 2003. They live in Brooklyn, New York.

G David Nordley

G. David Nordley is the pen name for Gerald David Nordley, a retired Air Force major and astronautical engineer with degrees in physics and systems management. His main interest is the future with emphasis on human exploration and settlement of space, and his stories typically focus on the dramatic aspects of individual lives within the broad sweep of plausible developments. He has published some 40 pieces of short fiction and a number of technical papers and articles. A collection of linked Mars-related stories was published as an electronic book by Scorpiusdigital.com in September 2001. He is a four-time winner of the AnLab, Analog's reader award for best story or article of the year and has had a Hugo and a Nebula nomination.

Sharyn November

Sharyn November is Editorial Director of Firebird and Senior Editor for Viking Children's Books and Puffin Books. She was a 2004 World Fantasy Award Finalist (Professional) for her work establishing Firebird.

Naomi Novik

Naomi Novik was born in New York in 1973, a first-generation American, and raised on Polish fairy tales, Baba Yaga, and Tolkien. She studied English Literature at Brown University and did graduate work in Computer Science at Columbia University before leaving to participate in the design and development of the computer game Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide. Over the course of a brief winter sojourn working on the game in Edmonton, Canada (accompanied by a truly alarming coat that now lives brooding in the depths of her closet), she realized she preferred the writing to the programming, and, on returning to New York, decided to try her hand at novels. Temeraire is her first. She has been an active participant in media fandom since college, and has created the open-source Automated Archive software for online fiction archives and the annual Vividcon video editing convention. Recently she has been working on the Commonverse project, dedicated to applying the open-source approach to the writing of shared-universe fiction. Naomi lives in New York City with her husband and six computers.

Jody Lynn Nye

Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as spoiling cats. She lives northwest of Chicago with two of the above and her husband, author and packager Bill Fawcett. She has published thirty books, including six contemporary fantasies, four SF novels, four novels in collaboration with Anne McCaffrey, including The Ship Who Won; edited a humorous anthology about mothers, Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear!; and published over seventy short stories. Her latest books are The Lady and The Tiger, third in her Taylor's Ark series, the upcoming Strong Arm Tactics (Meisha Merlin Publishing) and Myth-Taken Identity, co-written with Robert Asprin.