Meet the creators of the stories, art, and non-fiction in our Spring 2006 issue.
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The Dealer’s Hands—Paul Abbamondi is a speculative fiction writer who loves all genres but has a soft spot for stories involving elves and dragons. He reviews short fiction for Tangent Online, and hopes one day to compile a collection of his own work. He lives in New Jersey, and this is his first publication.
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Review: Larry Niven’s The Draco Tavern—John Joseph Adams is the assistant editor at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He is a reviewer for Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Intergalactic Medicine Show. His other non-fiction has appeared in (or is forthcoming from): Amazing Stories, The Internet Review of Science Fiction, Locus, Novel & Short Story Writers Market, SCI FI Wire, Science Fiction Weekly, Strange Horizons, and Subterranean Magazine. |
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A Warrior’s Death —Aliette de Bodard studies in Paris to become an engineer in Data and Image Processing. French-born, she decided to write in English after a two-year stay in London. Her fantasies have an emphasis on Aztec, Chinese, and Indian cultures. Her short stories will appear in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Fantastical Visions IV, and Deep Magic. Visit perso.wanadoo.fr/aliettedb or mail aliettedb@yahoo.com.
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Rubber Boots, Mr. President—Bruce K. Derksen makes his living playing with locomotives and trains. After work, he becomes a novice carpenter making barn-wood furniture. A large family and a supportive wife round out a lively and diverse life. If he has an ounce of energy left, he bangs out a few words on his latest story. His fiction appears in Aoife’s Kiss, The Fifth Dimension, SDO Fantasy, The Sword Review, and other small press markets.
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Paper Man—Darby Harn works to promote the arts in his hometown of Waterloo, Iowa. He graduated from the University of Iowa in 2001 and his fiction appears or is forthcoming in Fantasy Magazine, Shimmer, and the anthology Jigsaw Nation.
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Dog Thinks Ahead—Clifford Royal Johns lives outside Chicago with his wife and a few dogs (none of whom are named Dog). His fiction has appeared in Flash Me, SDO Fantasy, and is on deck to appear in a future issue of FARthing. Other than writing, Cliff enjoys cabinet-making, tractors, volleyball, and playing blues harmonica. He is a member of the SemiO’s writing group. |
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Litany—John Mantooth lives in Birmingham, Alabama with his wife, two kids, and three dogs. Between drafts of his novel, The Day the Darkness Came, John writes short stories that fall between the cracks in the genre sidewalk. His work appears in Future’s Mysterious Anthology Magazine, Thirteen Stories, Feral Fiction, NFG and Stephen D. Rogers Presents. His nonfiction, Going to Dalton, won the Alabama School of Fine Arts Literary Contest. |
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The Little Match Girl—Angela Slatter has almost finished her Masters (Research) in Creative Writing at QUT in Brisbane, Australia. Her fiction has appeared in Antipodean SF and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. She ghost-writes finance articles to help pay the bills. The Little Matchgirl forms part of her Masters creative work, a collection of re-loaded fairy tales entitled Black-Winged Angels. This is the last known photograph of her, taken at age 6, as she plots her first, ill-fated, bid for world-domination. |
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Drevka’s Rain—Marina T. Stern is a nurse, gardener, needle artist, marine mammal enthusiast, and hostess of legendary proportions. She has two books of nonfiction fairy lore in print, To Live with the Fairy Folk and The Fairy Party Book. She lives on the outskirts of Los Angeles with her adorable husband and two dogs. |
Speculative fiction for a miscreant world
