Category: Authors
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Featured Contributor: Vandana Singh
Vandana Singh is a science fiction writer and assistant professor of physics at Framingham State University in Massachusetts; her area of expertise is theoretical particle physics. Her short stories, which most recently include “Peripateia,” (2013), “Cry of the Kharchal” (2013), “With Fate Conspire” (2013), and “A Handful of Rice” (2012), frequently appear in Year’s Best and other…
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Featured Contributor: David Brin
David Brin is a scientist, best-selling author and tech-futurist. His novels include Earth (1990), The Postman (1985, filmed in 1997) and Hugo Award winners Startide Rising (1983) and The Uplift War (1987). A leading commentator and speaker on modern trends, his nonfiction book The Transparent Society (1998) won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association. David also works as a consultant and…
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Featured Contributor: Charlie Jane Anders
Charlie Jane Anders writes about science fiction for io9.com and is the author of the novel Choir Boy (2005). She has contributed to Mother Jones, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, ZYZZYVA, Pindeldyboz, Strange Horizons, and many other publications. She is co-editor of the anthology She’s Such a Geek (2006) and published an indy magazine called other, which bills itself the “magazine of pop culture and politics…
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Featured Contributor: James Cambias
James Cambias is a New Orleans-based science fiction and fantasy writer whose stories have been nominated for the Nebula Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. In 2001, he was a nominee for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Cambias has also made a name for himself within the gaming community as…
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Featured Contributor: Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz writes about science, pop culture and the future. She’s the editor in chief of io9, a publication that covers science and science fiction, and the author of Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (2013). Annalee has also written for Wired, The Smithsonian Magazine, The Washington Post, 2600, New Scientist, Technology Review, Popular Science, Discover and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.…
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Featured Contributor: Elizabeth Bear
Elizabeth Bear has accomplished quite a lot during her science fiction career. The awards alone are almost endless: a John W. Campbell Award in 2005 for Best New Writer, an Audie Award in 2012 for Best Original Work, a Sturgeon Award, a Locus Award, three Hugo Awards…the list goes on and on. After working across…
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Featured Contributor: Rudy Rucker
Rudy Rucker is a pretty excellent example of a well-rounded individual. Not only has he become well known for his work in mathematics, computer science and philosophy, but he’s an award-winning science fiction author to boot. As if that wasn’t quite enough for one person to accomplish, he is also one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement.…
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Featured Contributor: Karl Schroeder
Karl Schroeder is an award-winning Canadian science fiction author and a consultant in the areas of foresight studies and technology. Karl is recognized for inventing the term thalience, a concept that speculates about the possibility of engineered systems that could generate their own categories for understanding the world. These systems could help humans determine what reality…
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Featured Contributor: Brenda Cooper
Brenda Cooper is a science fiction author, futurist, tech executive and the current Chief Information Officer for the city of Kirkland, Washington. She is the author of the Endeavor award winner for distinguished Science Fiction of 2008: The Silver Ship and the Sea, and its sequels, Reading the Wind and Wings of Creation.…
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Featured Contributor: Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford’s resume is suspiciously well-suited for the Hieroglyph Project: he is both a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Irvine and an award-winning science fiction author. Gregory’s novels include Against Infinity, The Martian Race and Timescape. His most recent novel is Bowl of Heaven, co-written with Larry Niven. Gregory recently collaborated with the…