Harlan Ellison, a multiple award-winning author, has narrated numerous audiobooks, both of his own writing and others, including books by Orson Scott Card, Arthur C. Clarke, Jack Williamson, and Terry Pratchett. His readings have won two Listen Up Awards and an Audie Award in 1999 for Best Solo Narration.
J. Michael Straczynski is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author who has written hundreds of hours of television, major motion pictures, and graphic novels. He is the widely acclaimed creator of Babylon 5, cocreator of Netflix’s Sense8, and writer for Clint Eastwood’s Changeling, which was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Screenplay. His other awards include two Hugo Awards, the SFWA Ray Bradbury Award, the Eisner Award, the American Cinema Foundation E Pluribus Unum Award, the Indie Book Award, the GLAAD Media Award, the Eagle Award, two Emmy Awards, and the SDCC Icon Award. The author of Together We Will Go, Becoming Superman, and Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer, Straczynski lives in California.
Patton Oswalt is the author of the
New York Times bestseller
Zombie Spaceship Wasteland. He has released four TV specials and four critically acclaimed comedy albums, including the Grammy-nominated
My Weakness Is Strong. He put together the Comedians of Comedy tour and television series. Oswalt has also appeared on many television shows and in more than twenty films, including
Young Adult,
Big Fan, and
Ratatouille. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Dan Simmons is a multiaward-winning author whose work spans many genres, including science fiction, horror, historical fiction, and crime fiction.
Max Brooks is a senior nonresident fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point and the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. His bestselling books include
Minecraft: The Island, The Zombie Survival Guide, and
World War Z, which was adapted into a 2013 movie starring Brad Pitt. His graphic novels include the #1
New York Times bestseller
The Harlem Hellfighters.
Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Lincolnshire before heading off to Reading to study psychology and zoology. He subsequently ended up in law and has worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds, where he now lives. Married, he is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor and has trained in stage fighting. He's the author of
Children of Time, the winner of the 30th Anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the
Sunday Times bestseller
Shards of Earth.
Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-born blogger, journalist, and author. His science fiction has won numerous awards, including the Locus, Prometheus, and John W. Campbell awards.
Richard Peck is the first children’s writer ever to have been awarded a National Humanities Medal. His extensive list of honors includes the Newbery Medal (for
A Year Down Yonder), a Newbery Honor (for
A Long Way from Chicago), the Margaret A. Edwards Award, the Scott O’Dell Award (for
The River Between Us), and the Christopher Medal (for
The Teacher’s Funeral). He has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award. He lives in New York City.