Authors
TANANARIVE DUE (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is the award-winning author of The Wishing Pool & Other Stories and the upcoming The Reformatory ("A masterpiece"—Library Journal). She and her husband, Steven Barnes, co-wrote the Black Horror graphic novel The Keeper, illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes co-host a podcast, "Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!" A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. She and her husband live with their son, Jason.
Nick Harkaway was born in Cornwall, UK in 1972. He is possessed of two explosively exciting eyebrows, which exert an almost hypnotic attraction over small children, dogs, and - thankfully - one ludicrously attractive human rights lawyer, to whom he is married. He likes: oceans, mountains, lakes, valleys, and those little pigs made of marzipan they have in Switzerland at new year. He does not like: bivalves. You just can't trust them.
Phenderson Djèlí Clark. Phenderson Djéli Clark is the author of the novel A Master of Djinn, and the award-winning and Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon nominated author of the novellas Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. His short stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies including, Griots and Hidden Youth. You can find him on Twitter at @pdjeliclark and his blog The Disgruntled Haradrim.
Mladý a talentovaný spisovatel, to je kombinace, které se jen těžko odolává, však také Pavel Renčín patří k nejoblíbenějším autorům české fantastické literatury. Může za to také skutečnost, že na domácí scéně působí zcela ojedinělým dojmem. Jeho tvorba se pohybuje na mlhavém rozmezí mezi městskou fantasy a magických realismem, na hony vzdálená honbě za akčními scénami s neohroženými hrdiny. Renčín si vystačí s obyčejnými lidmi, kteří v jeho sympaticky civilním podání působí reálně, ačkoli se musí vypořádat s hrozbami, jež mají k všední realitě hodně daleko. Už románový debut Nepohádka z roku 2004 ukázal, že jde o spisovatele, jemuž je záhodno věnovat zvýšenou pozornost. Následoval útlý román Jméno korábu(2007) a po něm netradiční projekt internetového románu Labyrint(knižně Argo 2010), jenž vznikal za pomoci čtenářů a stal se jakousi předehrou k ambiciózní trilogii Městské války. Ta je Renčínovým dosud nejvýraznějším dílem, její úvodní svazek Zlatý kříž (Argo 2008) si vysloužil nominaci na cenu Akademie SFFH a cenu Aeronautilus v kategorii nejlepší česká kniha. Po druhém dílu nazvaném Runový meč (Argo 2009) tak konečně vyšlo mohutné vyvrcholení série – Věk nenávisti. Opomenut by však neměl zůstat ani výběr nejlepších autorových povídek Beton, kosti a sny z roku 2009 (Argo). Text pochází z románu Věk nenávisti - závěrečného dílu trilogie Městské války Povídky: •2010/09 – Tenkrát na středozápadě (Draci: Legendy) •2010/09 – Dračí hvězda (Draci: Legendy) •2010/07 – Vzpomínky delfína (Zabij/zachraň svého mimozemšťana) •2009/10 – Memento mori (sborník povídek historické fantasy Memento mori) •2007/11 – Ukolébavka pro město krys (sborník povídek městské fantasy Pod kočičími hlavami) •2007/03 – Jen tančí, nemluví, nespí (časopis Pevnost 03/2007) •2005/11 – Tři páry papuček (sborník povídek Drakobijci VII) •2005/09 – Na křídlech zlatých draků (sborník povídek Kostky jsou vrženy) •2003/11 – Čarodějův dům (sborník povídek Drakobijci V) •2003/04 – Valeriino přání (sborník povídek erotické sfaf Klášter Slasti) •2002/11 – Volání albatrosa (sborník povídek Drakobijci IV) •2002/08 – Loutkové divadlo (antologie Kočas 2002) •2001/10 – Zaslíbený věk trollí (sborník pov. Zaslíbený věk trollí, čas. Pevnost 08/2003) •2001/09 – Dračí hvězda (sborník povídek Drakobijci III, časopis Pevnost 03/2004) •2001/07 – Vzpomínky delfína (antologie Kočas 2001) •2001/07 – Skokani (antologie Kočas 2001) •2001/05 – Srdce z ledu (sborník povídek Conan v bludišti zrcadel) •2000/07 – Tanči mezi vločkami (sborník povídek Drakobijci II) •2000/01 – Čas hrdinů (časopis Zlatý drak č.1-2/2000) •1999/06 – Zajatci kamene (časopis Dech Draka 6/99) •1999/06 – Stvořitel (sborník povídek Drakobijci I)
Dilman Dila is a Ugandan writer and film maker. In 2014, he was longlisted for the BBC Radio Playwriting Competition, and in 2013, he was shortlisted for the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize and long listed for the Short Story Day Africa prize. He was nominated for the 2008 Million Writers Awards for his short story, Homecoming. He first appeared in print in The Sunday Vision in 2001. His works have since featured in several literary magazines and anthologies. His most recent works include the sci-fi, Lights on Water, published in The Short Anthology, the novelette, The Terminal Move, and the romance novella, Cranes Crest at Sunset, which are available on Amazon. His films include the masterpiece, What Happened in Room 13 (2007), and the narrative feature, The Felistas Fable (2013), which was nominated for Best First Feature at AMAA 2014. More of his life and works is available at his website http://www.dilmandila.com.
Max Gladstone is the author of the Craft Sequence: THREE PARTS DEAD, TWO SERPENTS RISE, FULL FATHOM FIVE, and most recently, LAST FIRST SNOW. He's been twice nominated for the John W Campbell Best New Writer award, and nominated for the XYZZY and Lambda Awards. Max has taught in southern Anhui, wrecked a bicycle in Angkor Wat, and been thrown from a horse in Mongolia. Max graduated from Yale University, where he studied Chinese.
See also Indra Das. Indrapramit Das (also known as Indra Das) is an Indian science fiction, fantasy and cross-genre writer, critic and editor from Kolkata. His fiction has appeared in several publications including Clarkesworld, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com, and has been widely anthologized in collections including Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction. His debut novel The Devourers (Penguin Books India, 2015; Del Rey, 2016) won the 29th Annual Lambda Award in LGBT SF/F/Horror category. The Lambda Award celebrates excellence in LGBT literature. The Devourers was shortlisted for 2016 Crawford Award, and included in the 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List. It was also nominated for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and the Tata Live! Literature First Book Award in India. Das is an Octavia E. Butler Scholar and a graduate of the 2012 Clarion West Writers Workshop. He completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is a former consulting editor of speculative fiction for Indian publisher Juggernaut Books.
Science Fiction and New Weird Writer PhD in Philosophy
