Maxima Library

In her reverberating new tale, Pat Cadigan shows us just how dangerous it is to get lost in the… Datableed.

The author’s own sojourn in Prague’s smoke-filled bars and decaying streets led to his eerie tale of… Radio Praha.

Stephen Dedman tells us, “My first novel, The Art of Arrow Cutting, was published by Tor in 1997, and my short stories have appeared in more than twenty anthologies and magazines. I have escaped from several institutions of higher learning, and narrowly avoided becoming a teacher.” The author lives in Western Australia.

S.N. Dyer takes a harshly satiric look at the society that could give birth to the… Wild Child.

David Marusek’s most recent story for us, “We Were out of Our Minds with Joy” (November 1995), was a finalist for both the Hugo and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. Although Mr. Marusek’s latest tale has a new cast of characters, he considers it the second in “what I hope to be a series of stories about life in the next century.” A substantially different version of “Getting to Know You” originally appeared in England in Horizon House Publications’ 1997 anthology, future histories. Readers can reach the author at his home page URL, which is: www.sff.net/people/david_marusek/

Mary Rosenblum recently sold a three-book mystery series to Ace/Berkley (Berkley Prime Crime). The first, tentatively titled Devil’s Trumper, should be out late this year. With her dramatic new tale for Asimov’s—her first about aliens—she proves that “I’m not about to stop writing science fiction! This story is a bit of a departure for me. I guess I’m just expanding my universe.”

The author, who recently moved from Texas to Tennessee, had two books published last year.

His short story collection, Ghost Seas, came out from Ticonderoga Publications and a volume of verse, This Impatient Ape, was released by Anamnesis Press.

Howard Waldrop’s latest astounding tale takes its inspiration from an earlier era. Indeed, he tells us, “Where I really want this story to appear is in Wonder Stories Quarterly, Spring 1930.” A new collection of Mr. Waldrop’s exceptional short fiction, Going Home Again, was published last year by Eidolon Press of Perth, Australia. St. Martin’s Press will release a hard-cover American edition of the book in July.