Science In My Fiction

Kay Holt

is Co-founder and Editor of Crossed Genres SF/F magazine. She lives outside Boston with her giant husband, their genius child, and two monstrous cats. She loves science and art, and uses both in her writing. She plans to save the world, someday.

• Personal site: http://www.subvertthespace.com/kay.htm
• Livejournal: http://sandykidd.livejournal.com
• Email: kay@crossedgenres.com

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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/
• http://www.umassmed.edu/cellbio/faculty/andreadis.cfm

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Nathalie Boisard-Beudin

is a middle aged French woman living in Rome, Italy. She has more hobbies than spare time, alas – reading, cooking, writing, painting and photography – so hopes that her technical colleagues at the European Space Agency will soon come up with a solution to that problem by stretching the fabric of time. Either that or send her up to write about the travels and trials of the International Space Station, the way this was done for the exploratory missions of old. Clearly the woman is a dreamer.

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M.G. Ellington

By day, M.G. Ellington crunches numbers in Winston-Salem, NC. By night, she plays with words in Greensboro, NC where she lives with her family.

Her story “Dream Catcher” is now published in Northern Haunts: 100 Terrifying New England Tales. She is a regular contributor to the Apex Book Company Blog, and is the founding member of a writing community, Lobo_Luna, on LiveJournal.com.

To find out more about M.G. Ellington please visit her website, http://mgellington.wordpress.com/.

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Jaym Gates

finds irrational psychological terror fascinating, so she became a slush reader and forum administrator of a writer’s group. She is an intern and writer with Fantasy Magazine, and a proud member of Outer Alliance.

She writes horror and dark fantasy that focuses on the fringe, the villain and the sociopath, and is currently wrapping up a novel of horrific fantasy.

She can be found at Fifthwind Forums, her website (http://jaymgates.moonfruit.com/) or her blog (http://mornara.wordpress.com/)

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Sarah Goslee

is a knowledge-based lifeform. Even knowing the potential pitfalls she’d choose immortality in a flash, just to have time to get through the read-me pile and figure everything out. That remarkably large stack includes works on botany, medieval astronomy, multivariate statistics and fiber arts, plus whatever the current obsession is. Sarah works as an ecologist studying agricultural biodiversity, a job that comes with summers spent outside being chased by cows and winters indoors writing papers.

She can be found online at http://www.sarahgoslee.com.

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Calvin Johnson

has had half a dozen stories published in venues such as Analog and Realms of Fantasy. His current crop of stories fall into the category of “theophantic space-slum opera.” He is also a professor of physics, specializing in nuclear physics and astrophysics, and teaches classes ranging from graduate quantum mechanics to general education courses on science and science fiction. His lecture notes on science and science fiction can be found at http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/~johnson/ns310/lectures.html.

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Peggy Kolm

combined her years of training in the biosciences with decades of reading and watching science fiction to create the Biology in Science Fiction web site.

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Bart R. Leib

is co-founder and Editor of Crossed Genres magazine. He’s editing the anthology Subversion: Science Fiction & Fantasy tales of fighting the status quo for Crossed Genres publications (Release date May 2011).

Bart’s fiction will be published in M-Brane SF magazine (August 2010) and the anthology Beauty Has Her Way from Dark Quest Books (Sept. 2010). His nonfiction has been published by Fantasy Magazine. He is a regular contributor to Science in My Fiction, a blog dedicated to exploring and promoting scientific accuracy and creativity in fiction.

Bart lives in a suburb of Boston with his wife Kay, their son Baz, and two cats, Romeo & Scout. He has more active projects than he has fingers. His website is http://subvertthespace.com/bartleib.

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Anassa Rhenisch

was raised on a steady diet of science fiction, fantasy, creativity, and science. She shares her mind with dinosaurs, astronomy, myths, ancient civilizations, hominids, magic, superpowers, language, quantum physics, and mad science, and loves the idea of living in the future, largely because of the world’s daily scientific advances. Anassa is currently crafting a novel and runs a blog on applying recent science to speculative fiction.

blog: http://specnology.blogspot.com
website: http://anassarhenisch.wordpress.com
email: anassa.rhenisch@gmail.com

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Juliette Wade

has turned her degrees in Anthropology, Japanese, Linguistics and Education into finely honed weapons in the battle against stubborn prose. Her stories in Analog Science Fiction and Fact feature cultural and linguistic clashes with aliens who have their own unique points of view. She further applies her fascination with culturally based judgments when creating fantasy stories set in Japan, and stories set in her own intricate world of Varin. She lives in California with a marvelous Aussie husband and two wonderful children who inspire her every day.

Blog: http://talktoyouniverse.blogspot.com
Email: info@juliettewade.com

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