War Stories: New Military Science Fiction

Author Bios

MIKE BARRETTA is a retired U.S. Navy Helicopter pilot with deployments around the world. He works for a Major Defense contractor. He holds a Master’s degree in Strategic Planning and International Negotiation from the Naval Post–Graduate School and is nearing a completion of a Master’s Degree in English from the University of West Florida. He is published in Jim Baen’s Universe, New Scientist, Redstone, and various anthologies. He resides in Gulf Breeze, Florida with his wife, Mary Jane, and five children.

SUSAN JANE BIGELOW is a librarian, writer and political columnist. She’s the author of the three Extrahumans books and The Daughter Star, the first in a series of epic space opera novels. Her work has appeared in the Lambda Award–winning The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard from Topside Press, and Queers Dig Time Lords. She also writes a weekly Connecticut–focused political column at CTNewsJunkie.com. Susan can be found wandering around northern Connecticut and western Massachusetts with her wife, covered in cat hair.

MAURICE BROADDUS has written hundreds of short stories, essays, novellas, and articles. His dark fiction has been published in numerous magazines, anthologies, and web sites, including Asimov’s Science Fiction, Cemetery Dance, Apex Magazine, and Weird Tales Magazine. He is the co–editor of Streets of Shadows (Alliteration Ink) and the Dark Faith anthology series (Apex Books) and the author of the urban fantasy trilogy, Knights of Breton Court (Angry Robot Books). He has been a teaching artist for over five years, teaching creative writing to students of all ages. Visit his site at www.MauriceBroaddus.com.

KEITH BROOKE’S most recent novel alt.human (published in the US as Harmony) was shortlisted for the 2013 Philip K Dick Award. He is also the editor of Strange Divisions and Alien Territories: the Sub–genres of Science Fiction, an academic exploration of SF from the perspectives of a dozen top authors in the field. Writing as Nick Gifford, his teen fiction is published by Puffin, with one novel also optioned for the movies by Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish’s Caveman Films. He writes reviews for the Guardian, teaches creative writing at university level, and lives with his wife Debbie in Wivenhoe, Essex.

JAMES L. CAMBIAS writes SF and designs games. Originally from New Orleans, he lives in western Massachusetts. His stories have appeared in F&SF, Shimmer, Nature, and several original anthologies. A Darkling Sea, his first novel, came out in January 2014. Mr. Cambias has written for GURPS, Hero Games, and other roleplaying systems, and is a partner in Zygote Games. He is a member of the notorious Cambridge SF Workshop. You can read his blog at www.jamescambias.com.

F. BRETT COX’S fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications. With Andy Duncan, he co–edited the anthology Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (Tor, 2004). A native of North Carolina, he is Associate Professor of English at Norwich University and lives in Vermont with his wife, playwright Jeanne Beckwith.

The Central Clancy Writer for Red Storm/Ubisoft, RICHARD DANSKY was named one of the Top 20 video game writers by Gamasutra in 2009. His credits include Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and Rainbow Six: Raven Shield. Richard has published six novels, most recently Vaporware, and is the developer for the upcoming 20th Anniversary edition of the acclaimed tabletop RPG Wraith: The Oblivion. He lives in North Carolina with his wife and their uncountable cats, books, and single malt whiskeys.

An editor and multi–published author, NERINE DORMAN currently resides in Cape Town, South Africa, with her visual artist husband, and has works published by Kensington, Dark Continents Publishing, eKhaya, Tor Books and Immanion Press. She has been involved in the media industry for more than a decade, with a background in magazine and newspaper publishing, commercial fiction, and advertising. Her book reviews, as well as travel, entertainment and lifestyle editorial regularly appear in national newspapers. A few of her interests include music, travel, history, Egypt, art, photography, psychology, philosophy, magic and the natural world.

THORAIYA DYER is a three–time Aurealis Award–winning, three–time Ditmar Award–winning Australian writer based in the Hunter Valley, NSW. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Apex, Nature and Cosmos and is forthcoming in Analog. A petite collection of four original stories, Asymmetry, is available from Twelfth Planet Press. Find her online at Goodreads or www.thoraiyadyer.com.

The youngest writer to be named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, JOE HALDEMAN has earned steady awards over his 44–year career: his novels The Forever War and Forever Peace both made clean sweeps of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and he has won four more Hugos and Nebulas for other novels and shorter works. Three times he’s won the Rhysling Award for best science fiction poem of the year. In 2012 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. The final novel in a trilogy, Earthbound, is out (after Marsbound in 2008 and Starbound in 2009), and he’s working on a new novel, Phobos Means Fear. Ridley Scott has bought the movie rights to The Forever War.

Joe’s latest novel is Work Done for Hire, out in December 2013. The collection The Best of Joe Haldeman came out in 2013. He just retired from a part–time appointment as a professor at M.I.T.; he taught every fall semester from 1983 until 2013. He paints and bicycles and spends as much time as he can out under the stars as an amateur astronomer. He’s been married for 49 years to Mary Gay Potter Haldeman.

MARK JACOBSEN is a C–17 pilot, strategist, and Middle East Regional Affairs Specialist in the U.S. Air Force. He has flown missions to more than 25 countries, speaks Arabic, and studied Conflict Resolution in Jordan. Mark enjoys imaginative, character–driven fiction, and his own writing reflects his interests in politics and international affairs. He is the author of The Lords of Harambee, which has been described by reviewers as “Blackhawk Down in space.” He is married with three children, and lives wherever the Air Force sends him. Follow Mark online at www.buildingpeace.net or @jacobsenmd.

JAKE KERR is a Nebula and Sturgeon Award nominated author whose short fiction has been translated into Chinese and French and published in science fiction magazines, anthologies, podcasts, literary journals, and has been featured in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and on io9.com. He lives in Texas with his wife and three daughters.

RICH LARSON was born in West Africa, has studied in Rhode Island, and at 22 now lives in Edmonton, Alberta. He won the 2014 Dell Award and won the 2012 Rannu Prize for Writers of Speculative Fiction. In 2011 his cyberpunk novel Devolution was a finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. His short work appears or is forthcoming in Lightspeed, DSF, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, AE and many others. Find him at Amazon.com/author/richlarson.

YOON HA LEE lives in Louisiana with her family and has not yet been eaten by gators. Her collection Conservation of Shadows was published by Prime Books in 2013, and her fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Tor.com.

KEN LIU (www.kenliu.name) is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. His fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among other places. He is a winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts. Ken’s debut novel, The Grace of Kings, the first in a fantasy series, will be published by Saga Press, Simon & Schuster’s new genre fiction imprint, in 2015. Saga will also publish a collection of his short stories.

KARIN LOWACHEE was born in South America, grew up in Canada, and worked in the Arctic. Her first novel WARCHILD won the 2001 Warner Aspect First Novel Contest. Both Warchild (2002) and her third novel Cagebird (2005) were finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award. Cagebird won the Prix Aurora Award in 2006 for Best Long–Form Work in English and the Spectrum Award also in 2006. Her books have been translated into French, Hebrew, and Japanese, and her short stories have appeared in anthologies edited by Julie Czerneda, Nalo Hopkinson, and John Joseph Adams. Her fantasy novel, The Gaslight Dogs, was published through Orbit Books USA.

T.C. McCARTHY is an award winning and critically acclaimed southern author whose short fiction has appeared in Per Contra: The International Journal of the Arts, Literature and Ideas, in Story Quarterly and in Nature. His debut novel, Germline, and its sequel, Exogene are available worldwide and the final book of the trilogy, Chimera, was released in August 2012. In addition to being an author, T.C. is a PhD scientist, a Fulbright Fellow, a Howard Hughes Biomedical Research Scholar, and a winner of the prestigious University of Virginia’s Award for Undergraduate Research. Visit him at www.tcmccarthy.com.

LINDA NAGATA is the author of multiple novels and short stories including The Red: First Light, a near–future military thriller nominated for the 2013 Nebula award. Among her other works are The Bohr Maker, winner of the Locus Award for best first novel; the novella “Goddesses,” the first online publication to receive a Nebula award; and the story “Nahiku West,” a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. Though best known for science fiction, she also writes fantasy, exemplified by her “scoundrel lit” series Stories of the Puzzle Lands. Linda has spent most of her life in Hawaii, where she’s been a writer, a mom, a programmer of database–driven websites, and lately an independent publisher. She lives with her husband in their long–time home on the island of Maui.

CARLOS ORSI, is a Brazilian writer and science journalist with two SF novels and three short story collections published in his native country. In the English language, his stories have appeared in Needle – A magazine of Noir, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and in the anthologies Tales of the World Newton Universe (Titan Books) and Rehearsals for Oblivion (Elder Signs Press). He lives in the city of Jundiai, Sao Paulo state, in Brazil, with his wife and a cat, and works in the University of Campinas (Unicamp).

JAY POSEY is the author of the Legends of the Duskwalker series of novels published by Angry Robot Books, and is a senior narrative designer at Ubisoft/Red Storm Entertainment, where he has spent many years contributing as a writer and game designer to Tom Clancy’s award–winning Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six franchises. He blogs occasionally at jayposey.com and spends more time than he should hanging around Twitter as @HiJayPosey.

MIKE SIZEMORE writes a lot of stuff that ends up in development hell out in LA which is why he’s so pleased that people get to read his story here. A few years ago he created something called Slingers which was sort of ‘Ocean’s 11 in space’ that almost became a TV show. Since then he’s written a bunch of pilots and feature scripts and also adapted Howl’s Moving Castle for the London stage with Stephen Fry. He’s currently working on Caper, a digital series about super heroes pulling a heist without becoming super criminals that will air on YouTube in January 2014. He also has a bunch of short stories and comic book stuff in the works so hopes you’ll have plenty more of his work to read soon. Oh and Warren Ellis once called him “nine kinds of wrong” after he put Peter Parker’s Aunt May in a sex–suit so consider that fair warning.

JANINE K. SPENDLOVE is a KC–130 pilot in the United States Marine Corps. In the Science Fiction and Fantasy World she is primarily known for her best–selling trilogy, War of the Seasons. She has several short stories published in various anthologies alongside such authors as Aaron Allston, Jean Rabe, Michael A. Stackpole, Bryan Young, and Timothy Zahn. She is also the co–founder of GeekGirlsRun, a community for geek girls (and guys) who just want to run, share, have fun, and encourage each other. A graduate of Brigham Young University, Janine loves pugs, enjoys knitting, making costumes, playing Beatles tunes on her guitar, and spending time with her family. She resides with her husband and daughter in Washington, DC. She is currently at work on her next novel. Find out more at www.JanineSpendlove.com.

JAMES L. SUTTER is the Senior Editor and Fiction Editor for Paizo Publishing, as well as a co–creator of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. He’s the author of the novels Death’s Heretic and The Redemption Engine, the former of which was ranked #3 on Barnes & Noble’s Best Fantasy Releases of 2011 and was a finalist for both an Origins Award and the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. In addition to numerous game books, most notably Distant Worlds and City of Strangers, James has written short stories for such publications as Escape Pod, Apex Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Geek Love, and the #1 Amazon bestseller Machine of Death. His anthology Before They Were Giants pairs the first published short stories of speculative fiction luminaries with new interviews and advice from the authors themselves. For more information, visit jameslsutter.com or find him on Twitter at @jameslsutter.