Promise of love

Barbara Keiler was born on 7 April 1946. She started telling stories before she could write. She was four when her sister, Carolyn, stuffed a crayon into her hand and taught her the alphabet, and she's been writing ever since. Barbara is a graduate of Smith College, where she learned to aim for the stars, and she received a master's degree in creative writing from Brown University, where she took aim at a good-looking graduate student in the chemistry department and wound up marrying him. Sh...

Brad Linaweaver is the author of the science fiction novel, Free Space. He writes engaging stories that explore speculative ideas.

Dafydd ab Hugh is an author whose novelette, "The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk" in Asimov's Science Fiction, was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1990. Simon & Schuster has published eleven ab Hugh novels in the Doom and Star Trek franchises.