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About The Authors,
& About the Artists.
Compiler, Editor, and Author
Bruce Coville
BRUCE COVILLE was born in Syracuse, New York, and grew up in a rural area north of the city, around the corner from his grandparents' dairy farm. He lives in a brick house in Syracuse with his wife, his youngest child, three cats, and a dog named Thor. Though he has been a teacher, a toymaker, and a gravedigger, he prefers writing. His dozens of books for young readers include the bestselling My Teacher Is an Alien series, Goblins in the Castle, Aliens Ate My Homework, and Sarah's Unicorn.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
MEL GILDEN is the author of many children's books, including the My Brother Blubb and Fifth Grade Monster series. He's also perpetrated novelizations of stories from Beverly Hills 90210, and written two Star Trek novels. Mel lives in Los Angeles, California, and still hopes to be an astronaut when he grows up.
LOIS TILTON is the author of Vampire Winter and several dozen other works of fantasy and science fiction. One of her stories appeared in Bruce Coville's Book of Spine-Tinglers. She lives near Chicago, Illinois, where she is currently working on a novel based on ancient Greek history.
EDWARD D. HOCH is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America and winner of its Edgar Award for Best Short Story in 1968. He has published over 800 short stories and nearly 50 novels, collections, and anthologies. Ed lives in Rochester, New York, with his wife, Patricia.
ESTHER M. FRIESNER is an award-winning SF and fantasy author who has taken the time between wardrobe overhauls to write over twenty-five books, one hundred short stories, and to keep her family, cats, and house-hamster informed of the latest trends in haute couture.
CAROL OTTOLENGHI-BARGA's science fiction, tall tales, and historical adventure stories for kids have been published in many magazines, including Cricket, Faces, and Spider. She lives in Ohio with her husband, two sports-loving kids, a dog, and a three-year-old goldfish named Piggy.
LOU GRINZO is a computer programmer and technical writer who authored the book Zen of Windows '95 Programming. He lives in beautiful upstate New York with his wife, Liz.
MARC BILGREY has written for TV, magazines, and comedians. His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies including Phantoms of the Night, First Contact, and Cat Crimes Through Time.
SHERWOOD SMITH lives in California. She started writing about another world when she was eight, and hasn't stopped since. She has stories in several anthologies, and has published two fantasy novels for young readers: Wren to the Rescue and Wren's Quest.
DEBORAH WHEELER started telling stories as a small child and kept on writing. She's written two novels--- Jaydium and Northlight--- and around three dozen short stories, one of which appeared in the Star Wars anthology Tales from Jabba's Palace. Deborah lives in Los Angeles.
LAWRENCE WATT-EVANS is the author of a couple of dozen novels and over a hundred short stories, including more than half a dozen that have appeared in previous Bruce Coville anthologies. He's a full-time writer living in Maryland with his wife, two kids, a cat, and a hamster.
ALETHEA EASON lives in Lake County, California with her husband, Bill. She's had stories published in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, New Moon Magazine, Shoofly, and most recently in the anthology A Glory of Unicorns, edited by Bruce Coville.
RAY BRADBURY lives in Los Angeles. He sold his first story over fifty years ago, when he was only twenty. Still actively writing, he is beloved throughout the world as one of the most poetic science fiction writers of all time.
MARI ECKSTEIN GOWER lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, James, their two children, and a cowardly Corgi named Feather. When Mari isn't writing or painting, she enjoys gardening, yoga, hiking, and watching "bad" movie.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
ERNIE COLÓN, cover artist, has worked on a wide variety of comic book-related projects during the course of his long career, including Scooby Doo, the Star Wars tie-in Droids, and Richie Rich and Casper, the Friendly Ghost. Ernie lives on Long Island, New York, with his wife and daughter.
ALEX SUNDER, pencil artist for the story illustrations, received national recognition in his native Brazil as the creator and penciller of the popular comic book Godless. When he's not busily working away on comics, Alex pursues his two favorite hobbies: music and surfing the Internet.
JOHN NYBERG, who inked the story illustrations, has been a comic book artist for 14 years; among his many accomplishments are Green Arrow, The Flash, and WildC.A.T.S. John lives in New Jersey with his wife, Amy, and their two cats, Bart and Lisa.