Science In My Fiction

Athena Andreadis

Athena Andreadis arrived in the US from Greece at 18 to pursue biochemistry and astrophysics as a scholarship student at Harvard, then MIT. She conducts basic molecular neurobiology research in brain function but has never given up her interest in cosmology.

When not conjuring in the lab, Athena writes stories and essays, a skill she developed as an unexpected benefit of chronic insomnia. Her works can be found in Crossed Genres, Strange Horizons, Huffington Post, H+ Magazine, and her blog.

Athena has always wondered about extraterrestrial life and the future of humanity. Combining these interests, she wrote To Seek Out New Life: The Biology of Star Trek. She plans to write more books, if only she can find the time.

• http://www.starshipreckless.com/
• http://www.toseekoutnewlife.com/

Nicola Griffith

Nicola Griffith is a native of Yorkshire, England, where she earned her beer money teaching women’s self-defense, fronting a band, and arm-wrestling in bars, before discovering writing and moving to the US. Her immigration case was a fight and ended up making new law: the State Department declared it to be “in the National Interest” for her to live and work in this country. This didn’t thrill the more conservative powerbrokers, and she ended up on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, where her case was used as an example of the country’s declining moral standards.

In 1993 a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis slowed her down a bit, and she concentrated on writing. Her novels are Ammonite (1993), Slow River (1995), The Blue Place, (1998), Stay (2002), and Always (2007). She is the co-editor of the BENDING THE LANDSCAPE series of original short fiction published by Overlook. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in an assortment of academic texts and a variety of print and web journals, including Nature, New Scientist, and The Huffington Post. Her awards include the Tiptree, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards, the Premio Italia, and the Lambda Literary Award (six times). Her latest book is a multi-media memoir, And Now We Are Going to Have a Party: Liner Notes to a Writer’s Early Life. Her current works-in-progress are a short story collection, an essay collection, and the first of a triptych of novels about Hild of Whitby.

Nicola lives with her partner of 21+ years, writer Kelley Eskridge, in Seattle where she runs Sterling Editing, helps develop websites, and takes enormous delight in everything.

Michael Kabongo

Mike Kabongo is a literary agent who enjoys a good laugh, a great steak and an excellent book. His love of science fiction and fantasy is both strong and varied, honored places on his book shelf are held by books like Fahrenheit 451, The Chronicles of Narnia, Enders Game, Magician, and several more recent others. He’s also a judgmental SOB, at least half of which is probably a job requirement. He has the great pleasure of being the agent for two writers he liked before he started his agency, Dave Freer and Irene Radford, as well as newer faces like James Enge and Charles Gannon.

• The Onyxhawke Agency
• Mike’s blog

Randall Munroe

Randall Munroe is the author of the webcomic xkcd. He worked briefly on robotics at NASA, but no matter how many sensors he put on the robots he was never able to keep them from running into chairs. He currently draws comics to support his programming hobby. When startled, he emits a cloud of ink and uses water jets to escape. He grew up in southern Virginia, and now lives in Massachusetts.

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Cat Rambo

Cat Rambo writes, teaches and edits (among other activities) in the Pacific Northwest. Her collection of short stories, Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight, appeared in 2009 from Paper Golem Press and her fiction can be found in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and Weird Tales, among other places. She is fiction editor of the critically-acclaimed FANTASY MAGAZINE. You can find her website and links to her blog and writing at http://www.kittywumpus.net.

Brett Savory

Brett Alexander Savory is the Bram Stoker Award-winning Editor-in-Chief of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words (which has been in operation since 1997), Co-publisher of ChiZine Publications, has had nearly 50 short stories published, and has written two novels. In 2006, Necro Publications released his horror-comedy novel, The Distance Travelled. September 2007 saw the release of his dark literary novel, In and Down, through Brindle & Glass. His first short story collection, No Further Messages, was released in November 2007 through Delirium Books. He is now at work on his third novel, Lake of Spaces, Wood of Nothing. Savory is represented by The Carolyn Swayze Literary Agency. He lives in Toronto with his wife, writer/editor Sandra Kasturi.

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