Other Earths (collection)

Robert Charles Wilson is the author of more than a dozen novels, including the Hugo Award-winning Spin and its sequel, Axis, as well as A Bridge of Years, Darwinia, Mysterium, Blind Lake, and Bios. His next novel will be Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century. Born in California, he currently lives near Toronto.

Award-winning novelist Jeff VanderMeer is the author of the best-selling City of Saints & Madmen, set in his signature creation, the imaginary city of Ambergris, in addition to several other novels from Bantam, Tor, and Pan Macmillan. He has won two World Fantasy Awards, an NEA-funded Florida Individual Writers’ Fellowship, and, most recently, the Le Cafard Cosmique Award in France and the T̈htifantasia Award in Finland, both for City of Saints & Madmen. He has also been a finalist for the Hugo Award, Bram Stoker Award, IHG Award, Philip K. Dick Award, and many others. Other novels such as Veniss Underground and Shriek: An Afterword have made the year’s best lists of Amazon.com, The Austin Chronicle, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Publishers Weekly, among others. His work, both novels and short stories, has been translated into over twenty languages. The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases may be his most famous anthology and is considered a cult classic, still in print along with his Leviathan original fiction series.

Stephen Baxter was born in Liverpool. He holds degrees in mathematics and engineering and has worked as a teacher of math and physics and in information technology. He is also a Chartered Engineer. In 1991, Baxter applied to become a cosmonaut, aiming for the guest slot on Mir eventually taken by Helen Sharman, but fell at an early hurdle. His first professionally published short story appeared in 1987 and his first novel in 1991. Baxter has been a full-time author since 1995, with over forty science fiction novels published around the world. He is the President of the British Science Fiction Association, a Vice President of the H.G. Wells Society, and Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society. Baxter and his family moved to Northumberland in 2004. His current project is a pair of books describing a catastrophic inundation of the Earth: Flood and Ark.

Gene Wolfe grew up in Houston, Texas, where he attended Edgar Allan Poe Elementary School. He dropped out of Texas A&M and got a CIB in Korea. In 1956, he graduated from the University of Houston. He and his wife, Rosemary, were married that year; they have two sons and two daughters, three grand-daughters, a step-granddaughter and a step-grandson. Wolfe has written The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Peace, The Devil in a Forest, The Book of the New Sun, Castleview, There Are Doors, Soldier of the Mist, Soldier of Arete, Soldier of Sidon, The Book of the Long Sun, The Book of the Short Sun, and others. His work has won two Nebula Awards, three World Fantasy Awards, the Deathrealm Award, the British Science Fiction Award, the British Fantasy Award, and others. His short fiction is collected in The Island of Doctor Death And Other Stories, Castle of Days, Endangered Species, Storeys From the Old Hotel, Strange Travelers , Innocents Aboard, and Starwater Strains. A two-volume fantasy, The Wizard Knight, is complete with the publication of The Wizard. He’s been the Guest of Honor at a Worldcon, a World Horror Convention, and a World Fantasy Convention. His latest novel is An Evil Guest.