Geoffrey A. Landis is a scientist and a science fiction writer. As a scientist, he is a researcher at the NASA John Glenn Research Center. He works on projects related to advanced power and propulsion systems for space and planetary exploration, and is currently a member of the science team for the Mars Exploration Rover…

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…

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…

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…