Season of Wonder

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.

Connie Willis (born Constance Elaine Trimmer, December 31, 1945, in Denver, Colorado) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer best known for her time-travel novels following historians from a future Oxford University, including Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog, and Blackout/All Clear. She has won more major genre awards than any other writer in the field's history. In 2011 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named her its Damon Knight Memorial Grand Maste...

Dana Cameron writes mystery and speculative fiction. Her bibliography includes Boston Noir, The Grimm Future, Season of Wonder, Wolfsbane and Mistletoe, and War on Christmas.

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)

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Robert David Reed

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...