Miles Vorkosigan is back. He’s been around, here and there, for the last few years, but with the release last month of Cryoburn he’s really back. It’s been a while, definitely. His story could’ve ended with A Civil Campaign or with Diplomatic Immunity. But, for now, he’s back and death is on his [...]

Cherie Priest writes everything from steampunk to horror to alternate history to Southern Gothic to urban fantasy. Sometimes she seems to be pulling the best from all the genres and subgenres and twisting them into harrowing rides for her characters. And there are few authors who can torment her protagonists [...]

A village girl sold by her father to be raised as a courtesan and trained to kill. A dwarf with sewn together lips. A mechanical man. A city on the brink of destruction. Secret societies, giant mechanisms in the sky, top secret airplanes, and an equatorial wall reaching to the sky. [...]

Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the story collection Scenting The Dark & Other Stories, and the novel Shades of Milk & Honey. In her words, she is a writer "interested in people and their relationships."
Her short story "Evil Robot Monkey" was nominated for the 2009 Hugo. Typical of [...]

Canadian novelist Karin Lowachee’s experiences have spanned the Western hemisphere. She was born in South America and raised in Canada. Her time spent working in the Arctic greatly influenced her most recent The Gaslight Dogs, as did her love of the Wild West, Victoriana, and Inuit culture.
In 2001, [...]

Australian fiction writer Angela Slatter has two beautiful story collections out, Sourdough & Other Stories (Tartarus Press [UK]) and The Girl with No Hands & Other Tales (Ticonderoga Publications). They are beautiful inside and out — both the stories that make up the books and the books themselves.
Slatter’s stories are [...]

Altered Fluid is a speculative fiction critique group that includes writers such as N. K. Jemisin, Matthew Kressel, and Saladin Ahmed.
Altered Fluid is the story of a creative writing class that grew into much more. It’s also the story of Terry Bisson’s generosity toward and respect for his students, who wanted to continue working together [...]

Scott Eagle grew up in Winston-Salem, NC. He now lives in Greenville, NC and serves as the assistant director of the School of Art and Design at Eastern Carolina University. Eagle is a southerner. Yet, there is nothing overtly southern in his paintings.
Imagine Flannery O’Connor on LSD without the Catholicism [...]

Born in Ireland, raised in Alabama, Caitlín Kiernan now lives in Rhode Island. Each of these evocative locales has influenced her science fiction and dark fantasy novels and short stories. An early interest in paleontology, archaeology, and snakes led her to a career in paleontology and teaching.  
A love of [...]

Elizabeth Bear’s first novel, Hammered, launched the Jenny Casey series and Bear’s career as an award-winning novelist. With each new novel and each new series, Bear’s writing continues becomes impossibly richer, brasher and more stunning. Her worlds are breath-taking and her characters as real as bone and steal.
These [...]