James L. Cambias is a writer and game designer, who grew up listening to steam calliope music from the Mississippi River in New Orleans. He now lives in western Massachusetts, where he is a partner in Zygote Games, a small publisher of science-based card and board games. His writing career began with adventures for the steampunk roleplaying game Space: 1889. Since then his fiction has  appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, the Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives, and original story anthologies. They laughed at him at the university, the fools.

James L. Cambias’ website is www.sciencemadecool.com.

James’ Shimmer stories:

• “The Wolf and the Schoolmaster,” The Clockwork Jungle Book (Issue #11)
• “The Barbary Shore,” The Pirate Issue (Issue #7)