After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien

About the Authors

Poul and Karen Anderson have collaborated on a marriage and on several books including The Unicorn Trade and the four-part “King of Ys” saga. By himself, Poul Anderson is author of over eighty books of fantasy and science fiction, among them A Midsummer Tempest and The Boat of a Million Years.

One of the most acclaimed of all modern fantasists, Peter S. Beagle is the author of the urban romance A Fine and Private Place and the quest novel The Last Unicorn. His most recent novel is The Folk of the Air.

Astrophysicist Gregory Benford is best known for science fiction novels like Great Sky River and the Nebula-winning Timescape. He has collaborated with David Brin on The Heart of the Comet and most recently with Arthur C. Clarke on Beyond the Fall of Night.

Since 1959 John Brunner has been credited as one of science fiction’s most prescient writers, tackling such issues as overpopulation in Stand on Zanzibar, ecological disaster in The Sheep Look Up, and the computer age in The Shockwave Rider. His notable fantasy tales include the five-story saga The Compleat Traveller in Black.

Emma Bull burst on the fantasy scene in 1986 with War for the Oaks, a tale of ancient magic and modern music set in contemporary Minneapolis. A leading light of modern urban fantasy, she is also the author of the science fiction novels Falcon and Bone Dance.

Charles de Lint received the William L. Crawford Award as best new fantasy writer in 1984 and has since lived up to that reputation with his highly regarded novels Greenmantle, Svaha, Yarrow, Jack the Giant-Killer, and The Little Country, an epic fantasy derived from his personal interest in Celtic folk music.

Stephen R. Donaldson endured forty-seven rejections before his unconventional fantasy saga The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: The Unbeliever was published in 1977 to wide acclaim. Since then he has written three more novels of Thomas Covenant; the “Mordant’s Need” duology; the stories collected in Daughter of Regals and Other Tales; and the first two volumes of his science fiction series “The Gap into Conflict.”

With her husband Robert Silverberg, Karen Haber is co-editor of the Universe anthologies and author of The Mutant Season, the first novel of the “Fire in Winter” science fiction tetralogy.

One of science fiction’s most incisive satirists, Barry N. Malzberg was awarded the first John W. Campbell Memorial Award for his 1972 novel Beyond Apollo. Among his works are Herovit’s World, Gather in the Hall of Planets, and Galaxies, which together with his nonfiction collection The Engines of the Night offer some of the most astute criticism written about modern science fiction.

An electrical engineer employed by a private research and development company, Dennis McKiernan began writing in 1977 while recovering from an automobile accident. His work includes the “Iron Tower” trilogy, the “Silver Call” duology, and most recently the novel Dragondoom.

Patricia A. McKillip has described her first encounter with the work of J. R. R. Tolkien as “a revelation.” She won the first World Fantasy Award for best novel in 1975 with The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, and followed this with her “Riddlemaster of Hed” trilogy. Her novel The Sorceress and the Cygnet has just been published.

Andre Norton is the author of more than 100 novels that blend science fiction and fantasy. Her “Witch World” series is credited with bridging the gap between young adult and adult fantasy and is considered a seminal influence on fantasy written in the post-Tolkien era.

Generally regarded as one of the funniest writers in fantasy, Terry Pratchett is the author of The Colour of Magic, Mort, Sourcery, Equal Rites, and Pyramids. With Neil Gaiman he has written Good Omens, the story of a funny thing that happened on the way to the Apocalypse.

Mike Resnick is one of the most highly praised science fiction writers of the last few years. His recent novels include Santiago, The Dark Lady, Ivory, Paradise, and the delightful alternate history fantasy Bully! His novelette “Kirinyaga” won the Hugo Award in 1989; another, “The Manamouki,” won the same award in 1991.

Elizabeth Scarborough distilled her experiences as a nurse in Vietnam into the Nebula Award—winning novel The Healer’s War. She is also the author of the four-part humorous fantasy series “The Songs from the Seashells Archives” as well as Phantom Banjo, the first book of her projected “Songkiller Saga.”

Robert Silverberg’s highly acclaimed fiction includes the science fiction novels Dying Inside, A Time of Changes, and The Book of Skulls; the “Lord Valentine” trilogy; and a retelling of Sumerian mythology in Gilgamesh the King.

Judith Tarr has a degree in classics from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Yale, both of which are evident in the historic detail of her “Hound and the Falcon” and “Avaryan Rising” trilogies. Elsewhere, she has written fantasy set in ancient Egypt in A Wind in Cairo, in the Dark Ages in Ars Magica, and in the Crusades in Alamut and The Dagger and the Cross.

History professor Harry Turtledove is best known for the four-part “Videssos” cycle and the “Tale of Krispos” series which includes Krispos Rising and Krispos of Videssos.

Folklorist and teacher Jane Yolen has authored more than 100 books for children, including The Devil’s Arithmetic and Owl Moon. Her adult fantasies include Cards of Grief; Sister Light, Sister Dark; and White Jenna. She is a winner of the World Fantasy Award, the Daedalus Award, and the Christopher Medal, and has her own imprint, Jane Yolen Books, with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.