Season of Wonder

Paula Guran is the editor behind The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. She's a trusted voice for readers looking for the best in dark fantasy and horror.

James Patrick Kelly writes science fiction, with stories often appearing in Clarkesworld Magazine, including issues 143 and 87. His work is also collected in volumes like Clarkesworld: Year Seven, Feeling Very Strange, and Digital Rapture.

Harlan Ellison was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a Jewish-American family. His family moved to Painesville, Ohio, but returned to Cleveland in 1949 after the death of his father. As a child, he performed in minstrel shows, and frequently ran away from home, taking odd jobs. He attended Ohio State University but was expelled after 18 months for hitting a professor who had denigrated his writing ability. He moved to New York City in 1955 to become a science fiction writer. Over the next...

Ken Scholes (born January 13, 1968) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer living in Cornelius, Oregon, United States. He is the author of five novels and over fifty short stories and his work has appeared in print since 2000. His series, The Psalms of Isaak, is published by Tor Books and his short fiction has been collected in three volumes published by Fairwood Press. Ken is a winner of the Writers of the Future Award, France's Prix Imaginales, the Endeavour Award and others...

Charles de Lint is the author behind the urban fantasy novel Protectors 2: Heroes. He's known for his imaginative stories that often blend folklore with modern settings.

Janet Kagan (born Janet Megson, April 18, 1946 – February 29, 2008) was an American author. Her works include two science fiction novels and two science fiction collections, plus numerous science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in publications such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact and Asimov's Science Fiction. Her story "The Nutcracker Coup" was nominated for both the Hugo Award for Best Novelette and the Nebula Award for Best Novelette, winning the Hugo. [source](https://en.wi...

Ellen Kushner (born October 6, 1955) is an American writer of fantasy novels. From 1996 until 2010, she was the host of the radio program Sound & Spirit, produced by WGBH in Boston and distributed by Public Radio International. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Kushner)

Robert Charles Wilson is the author of the science fiction novel Spin. His work often explores big ideas within accessible stories.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an American writer and editor. She writes under various pseudonyms in multiple genres, including science fiction.

M. Rickert is the author of Wastelands--Stories of the Apocalypse, a collection that explores the end of the world. If you're looking for stories that dig into what happens after everything falls apart, this is a good place to start.

Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years.

Nina Kiriki Hoffman (born March 20, 1955 in San Gabriel, California) is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror writer. Source: [Nina Kiriki Hoffman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Kiriki_Hoffman) on Wikipedia.

John William Wall, pen name Sarban, was a British writer and diplomat. Wall's diplomatic career lasted more than thirty years, but his writing career as Sarban was brief and not prolific, ending during the early 1950s. Sarban is described in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy as "a subtle, literate teller of tales, conscious of the darker and less acceptable implications that underlie much popular literature". Wall cited the supernatural fiction of Arthur Machen and Walter de la Mare as influences on h...

Robert David Reed

Connie Willis is a master of science fiction, particularly known for her time travel stories. Her novel Doomsday Book won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. She writes smart, funny, and deeply human tales that will keep you turning pages.