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Mari Ness
lives in central Florida, and likes to watch space shuttles and rockets leap into the sky. Her work has previously appeared in numerous print and online venues, including
Fantasy Magazine
,
Hub Fiction
and
Farrago's Wainscot
. She's still hoping to spend time in a space station some day.

Holly Phillips
is the award-winning author of
In the Palace of Repose
and
The Engine's Child
. She lives on a large island off the west coast of Canada, and is hard at work on her next novel.

Gareth L. Powell
is a regular contributor to
Interzone
. His stories have appeared all over the world and been translated into seven languages. His first collection,
The Last Reef
, was published by Elastic Press in 2008 and Pendragon will publish his first novel,
Silversands
, in 2010. He lives in the English West Country with his wife and daughters and can be found online at: www.garethlpowell.com.

Alastair Reynolds
was born in 1966. His first short fiction sale appeared in 1990, and he began publishing novels ten years later.
Chasm City
, his second novel, won the British Science Fiction award in 2002. His ninth novel,
Terminal World
, is due imminently. He is about to embark on an ambitious and broadly optimistic trilogy documenting the expansion of the human species into solar and then galactic space over the next 11,000 years. A former scientist, Reynolds worked for the European Space Agency until 2004, when he turned full-time writer. He is married and lives in Wales, not too far from his place of birth.

Gord Sellar
(gordsellar.com) was born in Malawi, grew up in Saskatchewan, and currently lives and works as a professor of English Language & Culture in South Korea. Since attending Clarion West in 2006, his work has appeared in
Asimov's SF
,
Interzone
,
Clarkesworld
,
Subterranean
, and
The Year's Best SF Vol. 26
, among other venues, and in 2009 he was a nominee for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. This story is dedicated to his buddies named Mike--in Jeonju, Utah, and Toronto alike, for being very different kinds of men, each excellent in his own way.

Possessing a quixotic fondness for difficult careers,
Paula R. Stiles
has driven ambulances, taught fish farming for the Peace Corps in West Africa and earned a Scottish PhD in medieval history, studying Templars and non-Christians in Spain. She has also sold fiction to
Strange Horizons
,
Writers of the Future
,
Jim Baen's Universe
,
Futures
,
@outshine
and other markets. She is Editor in Chief of the Lovecraft/Mythos 'zine
Innsmouth Free Press (
www.innsmouthfreepress.com). You can find her on Twitter (@thesnowleopard) or on her website at: www.geocities.com/rpcv.geo/other.html.

Jason Stoddard
is trying to answer the question, 'Can business and writing coexist?' with varying degrees of success. Writing-wise, he has two books coming out in 2010 from Prime Books:
Winning Mars
and
Eternal Franchise
. He's also been seen in
Sci Fiction
,
Interzone
,
Strange Horizons
,
Futurismic
,
Talebones
, and many other publications. He's a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and the Sidewise Award. On the other side, Jason leads Centric/Agency of Change, a marketing agency he founded in 1994. In this role, he's a popular speaker on social media and virtual worlds at venues like Harvard University, The Directors Guild of America, Internet Strategy Forum, Loyola Marymount University, and Inverge. Jason lives in Los Angeles with his wife, who writes romance as Ashleigh Raine.

Lavie Tidhar
is the author of linked-story collection
HebrewPunk
(2007), novellas
Cloud Permutations
(2009),
An Occupation of Angels
(2010), and
Gorel & The Pot-Bellied God
(2010) and, with Nir Yaniv, of
The Tel Aviv Dossier
(2009). He also edited the anthology
The Apex Book of World SF
(2009. He's lived on three continents and one island-nation, and currently lives in Israel. His first novel,
The Bookman
, is published by HarperCollins' new Angry Robot imprint, and will be followed by two more.

Read the first novel in
The Chronicles of King Rolen's Kin
, the bestselling fantasy series from Rowena Cory Daniells and Solaris Books!

Only seven minutes younger than Rolencia’s heir, Byren has never hungered for the throne. He laughs when a seer predicts that he will kill his twin. But the royal heir resents Byren’s growing popularity. Across the land the untamed magic of the gods wells up out of the earth’s heart. It sends exotic creatures to stalk the wintry nights and it twists men’s minds, granting them terrible visions. Those so touched are sent to the Abbey to control their gift, or die. At King Rolen’s court enemies plot to take his throne, even as secrets within his own household threaten to tear his family apart. Political intrigue and magic combine in this explosive first book in an exciting new fantasy trilogy.

www.solarisbooks.com

Read the second novel in
The Chronicles of King Rolen's Kin
, the bestselling fantasy series from Rowena Cory Daniells and Solaris Books!

Thirteen year old Piro watches powerless as her father's enemies march on the castle, while a traitor whispers poison in the King's ear, undermining his trust in her brother, Byren. Determined to prove his loyalty, Byren races to the Abbey; somehow, he must convince the Abbot to send his warriors to defend the castle. And Fyn, the youngest of King Rolen's sons, has barely begun his training as a mystic, but wakes in a cold sweat, haunted by dreams of betrayal...

www.solarisbooks.com

Read the final novel in
The Chronicles of King Rolen's Kin
, the bestselling fantasy series from Rowena Cory Daniells and Solaris Books!

Now a slave, Piro finds herself in the royal palace of Merofynia, serving her parents' murderer. She must watch every step, for if her real identity is discovered, she will be executed. Fyn is desperate to help his brother, now the uncrowned king of Rolencia. Byren never sought power, but finds himself at the centre of a growing resistance movement as people flee Palatyne's vicious soldiers. Can he hope to repel the invasion with a following of women, children and old men?

www.solarisbooks.com

Also from Solaris Books,
The Age of Ra
by James Lovegrove...

The Ancient Egyptian gods have defeated all the other pantheons and divided the Earth into warring factions. Lt. David Westwynter, a British soldier, stumbles into Freegypt, the only place to have remained independent of the gods, and encounters the followers of a humanist freedom-fighter known as the Lightbringer. As the world heads towards an apocalyptic battle, there is far more to this leader than it seems...

"The kind of complex, action-oriented SF Dan Brown would write if Dan Brown could write."

The Guardian
on
The Age of Zeus