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AARONOVITCH, Ben

Ben Aaronovitch was born and raised in London and all his work has reflected his abiding fascination and love for what he modestly likes to refer to as the ‘Capital of the World’. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed, bestselling Peter Grant/Rivers of London urban fantasy series.

In his youth he wrote for Doctor Who (his ‘Remembrance of the Daleks‘ is regarded as a classic by many) Casualty and the late lamented space soap Jupiter Moon – a show so low budget that you were only allowed seven of the regular cast in any given episode! Read the rest of this entry »

BARA, Dave

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BLAYLOCK, James P.

Jim Blaylock’s credentials and achievements are almost too many to list! He is the author of nearly twenty published novels and numerous shorter works. His 1978 story ‘The Ape-Box Affair’ is acknowledged as the first Steampunk story and the many further adventures of his much loved character Langdon St. Ives, in both shorter and longer forms (notably in the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel HOMUNCULUS and LORD KELVIN’S MACHINE) have made him the central figure in the original Steampunk triptych alongside Tim Powers (also represented by Zeno in the UK) and K.W. Jeter. He continues to collaborate with Powers, maintaining a partnership that has lasted since the two met in college back in the mid-70s and one only occasionally hampered by the interference of William Ashbless.

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BRENNAN, Marie

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BRETT, Peter V

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Raised on a steady diet of fantasy novels, comic books, and Dungeons & Dragons, Peter V. Brett (“Peat” to his friends) has been writing fantasy stories for as long as he can remember. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Art History from the University at Buffalo in 1995, and then spent over a decade in pharmaceutical publishing before returning to his bliss. His début novel, THE PAINTED MAN (AKA THE WARDED MAN in the US) was published in the UK (HarperCollins Voyager) in September 2008 to fantastic critical acclaim and  was named one of Amazon.co.uk’s 10 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels of 2008, and has been nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy.

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BUDRYS, Algis (estate)

Zeno is pleased to represent the estate of the late Algis Budrys. Here are a few words about A.J. courtesy of his wife, Edna…

Algis Budrys – 1931-2008

Legal name – Algirdas Jonas Budrys.  A.J. to his friends.

Algis Budrys was a Renaissance man.  His father was in the Lithuanian diplomatic corps and the family came to the United States when Algis was five years old which is when and where he learned English.

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CAMPBELL, Jack

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JOHN HEMRY (who writes as Jack Campbell) is a retired US Navy officer and a graduate of the US Naval Academy. At the USNA, he majored in International Relations and lettered in fencing. On his first berth, the USS Spruance, he served first as Gunnery Officer and later as Navigator/Administrative Officer, with collateral duties including Ship’s Legal Officer. He later moved into naval intelligence and the newly-created Navy Anti-Terrorist Alert Center, where he worked in collaboration with the other services and the Joint Chiefs. He eventually returned to sea duty in the Western Pacific before concluding his career with another stint at the Pentagon, broadening his expertise through service as an action officer for operational plans, interfacing not only with the other services but with diplomatic communities as well. He received numerous awards and decorations for his service, before the end of the Cold War provided an opportunity for early retirement in 1994, twenty years after his entrance into the Naval Academy. Read the rest of this entry »

CAPWELL, Tobias

An internationally-acknowledged expert on medieval and Renaissance arms and armour, Toby Capwell is the author of numerous books and articles on this fascinating subject, including The Real Fighting Stuff: Arms and Armour at Glasgow Museums (Glasgow: Glasgow Museums, 2006), The Worldwide Encyclopedia of Knives, Daggers and Bayonets (London: Anness, 2009), and The Wallace Collection: A Celebration of Arms and Armour at Hertford House (Milan: Hans Prunner, 2008).

He appears regularly on television as a presenter and interviewee, most recently on Timewatch: The Greatest Knight’ (BBC2, 2008) and Private Life of a Masterpiece: Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ (BBC2, 2009)… Read the rest of this entry »

COBLEY, Michael

Mike Cobley was born in Leicester, 1959, to an English father and a Scottish mother, the kind of bedrock contrast which, he says, still serves to highlight the value of differences and the strength that comes from their combination.

After his family spent a few years in Australia, he went to school in Clydebank, followed by the University of Strathclyde (to study engineering,) where he ended up writing a scurrilous column of polemic for the student newspaper. From that small seed the urge to tell stories of a fabulous nature unfolded and he began to write with a serious intention in 1986.

After getting several short stories published in various small press SF magazines, he made his first professional sale was to the Other Edens anthology in 1988, followed by more small press appearances leading to another pro-sale to Interzone in 1992.After a few more years writing shorts and a couple of abortive novels, he was introduced to John Parker  who agreed to take him on as a client. Read the rest of this entry »

COLE, Myke

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Myke Cole is the author of the Shadow Ops military fantasy series. The first book, CONTROL POINT was published in the United States by Ace (Penguin) in February 2012, and by Headline (Hachette) in the UK in August 2012. The second in the series, FORTRESS FRONTIER, was published in both the UK and US in January 2013. BREACH POINT, the next Shadow Ops novel, is due for publication in 2014. As a secu­rity con­tractor, gov­ern­ment civilian and mil­i­tary officer, Myke Cole’s career has run the gamut from Coun­tert­er­rorism to Cyber War­fare to Fed­eral Law Enforcement…

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COX, Edward

Edward Cox began writing stories at school as a way to pass time in boring lessons. It was a hobby he dabbled with until the late 80’s when he discovered the works of David Gemmell, which not only cemented his love of fantasy but also encouraged a hobby to become something much more serious.

With his first short story published in 2000, Edward spent much of the next decade earning a BA first class with honours in creative writing, and a Masters degree in the same subject. He then went on to teach creative writing at the University of Bedfordshire. During the 2000’s he published a host of short stories with the smaller presses of America, where he also worked as a reviewer.
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de BODARD, Aliette

Aliette de Bodard is a Computer Engineer who moonlights as a speculative fiction writer in her spare time. She graduated in 2007 from Ecole Polytechnique, one of France’s top engineering schools, and went on to find a job which involved two of her loves, mathematics and programming computers.

She was already writing science fiction and fantasy short stories during her studies, though it took her a few years to get them published. Over the course of her young career, Aliette has racked up a significant number of award nominations (Hugo, Nebula, etc.). She won Second Place in Writers of the Future in 2006. In 2013, she won a Nebula Award for her short story Immersion. Aliette won two 2015 BSFA Awards, for her novel THE HOUSE OF SHATTERED WINGS and for her short story THREE CUPS OF GRIEF, BY STARLIGHT.

Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in places such as Interzone, Black Static, and Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. She currently lives in Paris… Read the rest of this entry »

FOYLE, Naomi

Novelist, prize-winning poet, performer and professional Tarot Card reader, Naomi Foyle was born in London, grew up in Hong Kong, Liverpool and Saskatchewan and, after a decade of globetrotting, now lives in Brighton.

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GIBSON, William

United Kingdom and British Commonwealth only: Represented in these territories on behalf of Martha Millard at Sterling Lord Literistic.

William Gibson is an American-Canadian writer, and the father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. After coined the term ‘cyberspace’ in 1982, and popularized it in his first novel, NEUROMANCER (1984), which has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide. While his early writing took the form of short stories, Gibson has since written nine critically acclaimed novels (one in collaboration), contributed articles to several major publications, and has collaborated extensively with performance artists, filmmakers and musicians. His writing has been cited as an influence on science fiction authors, academia, cyberculture, and technology. His latest novel, THE PERIPHERAL, will be published in 2014 by Viking (UK) and Putnam (US).

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GREEN, Simon R.

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Simon Green is a British New York Times best-selling author, and one of the genre’s most prolific novelists to boot. Among his numerous,  multi-volume series are The Twilight of the Empire, Deathstalker (SF), Hawk and Fisher, The Forest Kingdom (fantasy), the extremely popular Nightside urban fantasy series, Secret Histories, and the new Ghost Finders series. Simon’s work has predominantly been published in the US by Roc.

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GREGORY, Daryl

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Daryl Gregory is an award-winning writer of genre-mixing novels, stories, and comics. His most recent work is the novel is AFTERPARTY, published in the UK by Titan Books, in 2014 (and Tor Books in the US) and the novella WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE (Tachyon, 2014). His first novel, PANDEMONIUM, won the Crawford Award and was nominated for a World Fantasy Award. His other novels include the Philip K. Dick award finalist THE DEVIL’S ALPHABET and RAISING STONY MAYHALL, which was named one of the best books of the year by Library Journal.

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HAND, Elizabeth

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HARRIS, Charlaine

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It has taken twenty-five years of hard work for Charlaine Harris to become an overnight success. She has written all sorts from poetry and plays to novels in many genres – mysteries, crime, romance – but it is her supernatural stories that have turned her into a true global superstar. The hugely popular Sookie Stackhouse series about a “telepathic Louisiana barmaid and friend to vampires, werewolves, and various other odd creatures” has been published in Japan, Greece, Germany, Thailand, Spain, France, and Russia as well as here and, of course in the US and this list of territories continues to expand. Read the rest of this entry »

HODDER, Mark

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Mark Hodder is descended from John Angell, a pirate who sailed with Captain Kidd. According to family legend, Angell invested most of his ill-gotten gains in land, particularly in Angell Town near Brixton in London. Anyone who can provide irrefutable legal evidence that they’re descended from Angell will inherit the land, which is estimated to now be worth at least 64 million pounds. Over the course of generations, members of the family, seeking to gain the fortune, have lost one in trying to prove the link, and hordes of people who have no connection with the family at all have adopted the name in order to make a claim. As a result, the family tree is extremely tangled and a legal connection to the pirate’s treasure is almost certainly impossible to establish.

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HODGES, Andrew

Andrew Hodges is unusual for combining his work as a professional mathematician with writing of a distinctive personal and historical character. In 1983 he published ALAN TURING: THE ENIGMA, a biography of Alan Turing (1912-1954) which succeeded in wrapping together Turing’s life as the founder of computer science, chief World War II codebreaker and as persecuted gay man.

Andrew Hodges’s work brought this hidden story to a wide readership and it has remained in print ever since. It has appeared in numerous translations, and was dramatised for stage and television by High Whitemore under the title Breaking the Code. Read the rest of this entry »

HUFF, Tanya

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TANYA HUFF is one of today’s most popular fantasy/sf authors. Following three years in the Canadian Naval Reserve, a year studying forestry, a winter hanging around Universal Studios backlot, studies for a degree in radio and television arts and some time selling sunglasses off a pushcart after budget cuts led to a staff reduction at the CBC, she turned to writing in the mid-80s, and now resides in rural Ontario, a few hours from Toronto. Read the rest of this entry »

HUMAN, Charlie

Charlie Human is a denizen of South Africa’s speculative fiction scene. His short story, The Immaculate Particle, appeared in Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse, and Land of the Blind was printed in the UK version of ZOO CITY by Lauren Beukes. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. Read the rest of this entry »

HUSBERG, Christopher

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Christopher Husberg was born in Eagle River, Alaska and raised on a diet of Warcraft, Roald Dahl and J.R.R. Tolkien. At school he made the transition to authors like Robert Jordan and George R. R. Martin, and started writing fan fiction. Read the rest of this entry »

LYLE, Anne

Anne Lyle was born in what is known to the tourist industry as ‘Robin Hood Country’, and grew up fascinated by English history, folklore, and swashbuckling heroes.

Unfortunately there was little demand in 1970s Nottinghamshire for diminutive swordswomen, so she studied sensible subjects like science and languages instead. She now lives in Cambridge, where she works as a web developer for one of the world’s largest medical charities
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MACLEOD, Ian R

The multi-award winning author of  THE LIGHT AGES, THE HOUSE OF STORMS, THE GREAT WHEEL and a host of short stories and novellas, Ian R. Macleod has become one of the most distinctive and exciting voices in British science fiction – a fact born out by his most recent novel SONG OF TIME (PS Publishing) winning the 2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award… Read the rest of this entry »

MAXEY, James

James Maxey started his first novel at age seven, a sea-spanning tale of ghosts and pirates. He only managed to get about 100 words in before encountering his first case of writer’s block. He’s now a bit more proficient at finishing what he’s started, having gone on to publish over a dozen short stories in Asimov’s, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and numerous anthologies.

His four novels to date are the cult-classic superhero tale NOBODY GETS THE GIRL and the Dragon Age trilogy of BITTERWOOD, DRAGONFORGE, and DRAGONSEED. Read the rest of this entry »

McDONALD, Ian

Born in Manchester and raised in Northern Ireland (where he still lives) Ian McDonald is an award winning Science Fiction author. His novels include BRASYL (2007), RIVER OF GODS (2004), ARES EXPRESS (2001), KIRINYA (1998) and DESOLATION ROAD (1988) and he been extensively published all over the world.

Ian is also also a prolific writer of novellas and short fiction and his work has appeared in many anthologies and collections.

Amongst the many accolades he has received for his fiction are the BSFA award (five times, across both the novel and short fiction categories), the Philip K. Dick award, the Hugo award, the LOCUS award for best first novel and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. He has also received nominations and shortlistings  for a host of other genre prizes  including the Arthur C. Clarke and Nebula awards. Read the rest of this entry »

MOON, Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Moon was born March 7, 1945, and grew up in McAllen, Texas, graduating from McAllen High School in 1963. She has a B.A. in History from Rice University (1968) and another in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin (1975) with graduate work in Biology at the University of Texas, San Antonio.

She served in the USMC from 1968 to 1971, first at MCB Quantico and then at HQMC. She married Richard Moon, a Rice classmate and Army officer, in 1969; they moved to the small central Texas town where they still live in 1979. They have one son, born in 1983. Read the rest of this entry »

MYERS, E.C.

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Eugene Myers is an American author, whose parents hail from Korea and Germany. He was raised by a single mother and a public library in Yonkers, New York, where he survived an improbable number of life-threatening experiences—most miraculously, high school—with ample scars as proof. Eugene graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts, which was no use at all in his subsequent job as a technical writer, but looks pretty nice on the wall. After a year in software development on Wall Street, he began a career in cable television and helped deliver quality women’s programming for nine-and-a-half years. He now uses his powers for good—as a development writer for a children’s hospital. Read the rest of this entry »

POWERS, Tim