Harlan Ellison (1934-2018) wrote or edited 75 books and more than 1700 stories, essays, articles, and newspaper columns as well as two dozen teleplays and a dozen motion pictures. He won the Hugo award nine times, the Nebula award four times, the Bram Stoker award six times (including The Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996), the Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Mystery Writers of America twice, the Georges Méliès fantasy film award twice, and was awarded the Silver Pen for Journalism by PEN, the international writer’s union.
Max Brooks’s previous book,
The Zombie Survival Guide, formed the core of the world’s civilian survival manuals during the Zombie War. Mr. Brooks subsequently spent years traveling to every part of the globe in order to conduct the face-to-face interviews that have been incorporated into this present publication.
Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of the acclaimed Shadows of the Apt fantasy series and the epic science fiction blockbuster
Children of Time. He has won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, a British Fantasy Society Award, and been nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award. In civilian life he is a gamer and amateur entomologist. He was a full time lawyer until recently, when he decided to write full time, instead.
Cory Doctorow is an award-winning science fiction short-story writer with more than 15 published stories. He was a winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
J. Michael Straczynski is a legendary American writer and television producer—best known as the author of The Complete Guide to Scriptwriting, as the creator and showrunner for the science fiction TV series Babylon 5 and, from 2001 to 2007, the writer for the long-running Marvel comic book series The Amazing Spider-Man.
Richard Peck, the author of more than thirty novels, has won numerous awards, including a National Humanities Medal, the Edgar Mystery Award, the Newbery Medal, the Margaret A. Edwards Award, and the Scott O’Dell Award. He has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award. He lives in New York City.
Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, and New York Times bestselling author. He has released television specials and critically acclaimed comedy albums, including the Grammy Award-nominated My Weakness Is Strong. He put together the Comedians of Comedy tour and television series and he has held recurring character roles on many television shows. He has appeared in more than twenty films and has worked as a voice actor in King of Queens, Cartoon Network’s Robotomy, and the Disney animated film Ratatouielle.
Dan Simmons is the Hugo Award-winning author of
Hyperion and
The Fall of Hyperion, and their sequels,
Endymion and
The Rise of Endymion. He has written the critically acclaimed suspense novels
Darwin's Blade and
The Crook Factory, as well as other highly respected works, including
Summer of Night and its sequel
A Winter Haunting, Song of Kali, Carrion Comfort, and
Worlds Enough & Time. Simmons makes his home in Colorado.
