Something Magic This Way Comes (40 page)

Mike Resnick
is the author of more than fifty science fiction novels, one hundred seventy-five stories, twelve collections, and two screenplays, and has edited over forty anthologies. His work has appeared in twentytwo languages. He is the winner of five Hugo Awards, has won other major awards in the USA, France, Japan, Poland, Croatia, and Spain and, according to
Locus
, is the leading short fiction award winner in science fiction history.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch
has sold novels in several different genres under many different names. The most current Rusch novel is
Paloma: A Retrieval Artist
Novel
. The Retrieval Artist novels are stand-alone mysteries set in a science fiction world. She’s won the Endeavor Award for that series. Her writing has received dozens of award nominations as well as several actual awards from science fiction’s Hugo to the Prix Imagainare, a French fantasy award for best short fiction. She lives and works on the Oregon Coast.

Harry Turtledove
is an escaped Byzantinist who writes alternate history, other sf, fantasy, and historical fiction. He may be best known for alternate-history novels
The Guns of the South
and
Ruled Britannia
. He is married and has three daughters and the stereotypical writer’s cat—although the fuzzy galoot in question hasn’t got the brains to make a proper stereotype.

Sarah A. Hoyt
was often disciplined for lying as a child. Being who she is, this meant only that her lies kept getting more complex and inventive. Now living in Colorado with her husband, two teen sons and a claw of cats, she has sold a dozen novels and over fifty short stories. Her Shifters series with Baen started with
Draw One in the Dark
, while her Musketeers Mysteries—with Prime Crime—started with
Death of
a Musketeer
. Upcoming is her Bantam Trilogy
Heart
of Light, Soul of Fire
, and
Heart and Soul
, which details adventures in an alternate British Empire where magic works.
Something Magic This Way Comes
is her first attempt at editing, and she can’t really explain it. All she can imagine is that after four decades of a blameless life she somehow got bitten by an editor, thereby becoming one every full moon.