Orlando Ortega-Medina nació en Los Ángeles, hijo de inmigrantes cubanos. Estudió Literatura Inglesa en la UCLA y obtuvo un Doctorado en Derecho por la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad…
Anthony Horowitz es uno de los escritores más prolíficos y exitosos del Reino Unido, único en su actividad tanto en ficción para adultos como para jóvenes, televisión, teatro y periodismo. Varias de…
Tochi Onyebuchi es el autor de Goliath, finalista de los Premios Locus y Dragon; la novela juvenil Beasts Made of Night, ganadora del Premio Ilube Nommo a la Mejor Novela de Ficción Especulativa de un…
Michael Seth Starr cubrió la televisión en el New York Post como reportero, columnista, crítico y editor durante más de 28 años. Ha escrito una filmografía de Peter Sellers y biografías de Don Rickles…
Erin Crosby Eckstine es autora de ficción histórica especulativa, ensayos personales y cualquier otra obra que le apetezca. Nacida en Montgomery, Alabama, Eckstine creció entre el sur y Los Ángeles…
Cindy Mediavilla, exprofesora de la escuela de bibliotecología y bibliotecaria pública, es actualmente autora y académica independiente. Se jubiló de la Biblioteca Estatal de California y del…
Kate Maruyama creció leyendo y alimentándose del cine en un pequeño pueblo de Nueva Inglaterra. Es autora de The Collective, Harrowgate y Bleak Houses. Escribe, enseña, cocina y come en Los Ángeles…
Ava Morgyn creció enamorándose de los personajes equivocados en las historias equivocadas, y luego estudió Escritura Inglesa y Retórica en la Universidad de St. Edward. Es una amante de la brujería…
Karen Rigby es la autora de Chinoiserie, ganadora del Premio de Poesía Sawtooth en 2011. Becaria de literatura del Fondo Nacional para las Artes, sus poemas se han publicado en revistas como The…
Tras su salto a la fama culinaria en el programa Masterchef de la BBC, Orlando Murrin se convirtió en editor de la revista BBC Good Food antes de fundar una posada gastronómica en el suroeste de…
Eve has spent the last 30 years working for an engineering/manufacturing company managing various projects and climbing the corporate ladder. Suddenly, she has been “released” from her position. She is a corporate scapegoat for systemic problems within her company and, as the only woman at her management level, the seemingly...
The first season of The Twilight Zone in 1960 included an episode written by show creator Rod Serling entitled “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” Serling presented a block of homes, filled with “typical” American families, on a summer evening. There is a bright flash of light, whose origin...
Jody Armour is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. He studies issues of race and legal decision-making as well as torts and tort reform movements. He also studies and teaches on the intersections of language, the law and ethics. His latest book directly...
The year is 1704 and Lady Cecily Kay has returned to London from her husband’s posting as a consul in Smyrna. Upon learning of her imminent return to the British Isles, Cecily sent a letter to Sir Barnaby Mayne, a renowned collector in London with one of the most expansive...
David Gerrold is speculative fiction royalty. His career spans six decades, over which he has won the Hugo and the Nebula awards. He has written more than 50 novels, worked on numerous television series and created cultural touchstones like tribbles (from Star Trek) and the Sleestak (from The Land of...
A pirate, a refugee, two pre-teen boys in love with speculative fiction stories, and two adult men who are friends and are each searching for what seems to be missing in their lives. Over the course of nearly a century, these disparate individuals will orbit the missing manuscript of a...
Halley's Comet is quite possibly the most famous, and infamous, comet currently known. It is a “periodic” comet, coming close enough to the earth for viewing approximately every 75 years. Over the centuries, the appearance of Halley’s Comet has been erroneously blamed for earthquakes, illnesses (including the Black Plague in...
In a "locked-room" or "impossible crime" mystery, a crime, or series of crimes, is committed under circumstances that appear, at least initially, impossible for said crime to have been enacted. Those same conditions will also seem to preclude the criminal entering or exiting the crime scene.The first “locked-room” mystery was...
In the early 1940s, a Scottish professor of mathematics devises a mathematical definition of the murder mystery story and writes seven provocative stories as proof of his theory. He publishes a journal article regarding his ideas and then self-publishes his seven stories in a small volume, entitled The White Murders.Decades...
What if Sasquatch is real? What if there actually is a large, hair-covered hominid that lives in the undeveloped areas of the Pacific Northwest and is occasionally sighted by unsuspecting humans? What if a natural disaster displaced these creatures and their prey, forcing them to move closer to human settlements...
