Eastercon 2010

John Joseph Adams

John Joseph Adams is the bestselling editor of many anthologies, such as Wastelands, The Living Dead (a World Fantasy Award finalist), By Blood We Live, Federations, and The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Barnes and Noble.com named him "the reigning king of the anthology world",and his books have been named to numerous best of the year lists. He is also the fiction editor of the forthcoming science fiction magazine Lightspeed,and is the co-host of The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. John lives in New Jersey.

Andy Bigwood

Andy Bigwood is an artist, draughtsman, bookbinder, cartographer and illustrator from West Wiltshire, UK, where he lives alone, only venturing out for disastrous foreign holidays and the occasional convention.

Trained in technical illustration, in Bath (shortly before the evolution of computer aided art), Andy has provided artwork, cartography and cover designs for a variety of Fantasy, Horror, and Science fiction novels including The Winter Hunt, Conflicts, The Push, Future Bristol, and maps for the Wraeththu trilogy; twice winning the British Science Fiction Association Award for best artwork with the book covers of disLOCATIONS and Subterfuge.

Andy is currently organising the Art Show for BristolCON 2010.

Aliette de Bodard

French-born Aliette de Bodard writes SF and fantasy in English – her second language. Her short stories have appeared in markets such as Asimov's, Realms of Fantasy and the Year's Best Science Fiction. Her novel, the Aztec fantasy Servant of the Underworld, has recently been published by Angry Robot/Harper Collins.

Paul Cornell

Paul Cornell is an SF and fantasy writer working in prose, comics and television. He's written three episodes of the modern Doctor Who, and his work for Marvel Comics includes Captain Britain and MI-13. His novels are Something More and British Summertime.

Ellen Datlow

Ellen Datlow has been editing short science fiction, fantasy, and horror for almost thirty years. She was co-editor of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and has edited or co-edited many other anthologies, most recently The Coyote Road and Troll’s Eye View (with Terri Windling), Best Horror of the Year, Volume 1, Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, and Lovecraft Unbound.

Forthcoming are Best Horror of the Year, Volume 2, Tails of Wonder and the Imagination (a big, all-genre cat story reprint anthology), Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror, Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy, Haunted Legends (with Nick Mamatas), and The Beastly Bride (with Terri Windling).

She has won multiple awards for her editing, including the World Fantasy, Locus, Hugo, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, and Stoker Awards. She was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award for "outstanding contribution to the genre." (Photo by Gregory Frost.)

Stephen Deas

Fantasy author Stephen Deas made it into the big leagues the hard way after years of submissions went unread only for a pitch of a new action-packed dragon based trilogy to finally secure him a deal with Gollancz. The first novel in the series, The Adamantine Palace, was released to glowing reviews in March 2009 while the second instalment King Of The Crags is due for release in April.

Jaine Fenn

Jaine Fenn is the author of the Hidden Empire books, Principles of Angels and Consorts of Heaven, as well as a number of short stories.

David A. Hardy

David illustrated his first book, Suns, Myths and Men, for Patrick Moore at the age of 18. He has since illustrated and produced covers for dozens (maybe hundreds) of books, both fact and fiction, including many by Patrick Moore, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan. He has worked on magazines, movies, TV series, computer games and record covers, and his novel Aurora: A Child of Two Worlds was published by Cosmos.

Colin Harvey

Colin Harvey is the editor of the anthology, Future Bristol, and the author of the novels Winter Song and the forthcoming Damage Time, both from Angry Robot Books. Colin and his wife Kate live between Bristol and Bath. Colin worked for twenty years for a multinational manufacturer of consumer goods before going back to university in 2009 to take a degree in Creative Writing and Media Communications, studying formats such as scriptwriting, gaming and poetry.

Stephen Hunt

Stephen Hunt is the fantasy and science fiction author behind the Jackelian series of fantasy novels: The Court of the Air, The Kingdom Beyond the Waves, The Rise of the Iron Moon, and The Secrets of the Fire Sea. The Jackelian world features a fantastic far-future Earth where the laws of physics have rendered electricity unreliable, and society has rebuilt the world with steam, clockwork, genetic engineering and nano-mechanical systems.

Stephen Hunt is HarperCollins' main fantasy author in the UK, and he is published in the USA by Tor. Foreign language and international editions of the four novels of the Jackelian series have been sold to Albin Michel (France), Verlagsgruppe Random House (Germany), Enterbrain Manga and Anime (Japan), Edições Saída de Emergência (Portugal), Paidós (Spain), AST (Russia), and the Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House (China).

His official web sites are www.SFcrowsnest.com (the SFF web site), his personal web site at www.StephenHunt.net, while his appearances as Guest Literary Editor of the SCIFI Channel can be seen at www.scifi.co.uk.

David Langford

David Langford is an SF author, critic, columnist for Interzone and SFX, and publisher of the newsletter Ansible. He has won ever so many Hugos.

James Lovegrove

James Lovegrove has been a published SF author for over 20 years and in that time has produced nearly 30 novels and works of YA fiction, many of which have been shortlisted for awards. He has several books coming out in 2010, including a novel, The Age Of Zeus, a short story collection, Diversifications, and a series for younger readers, The Five Lords Of Pain. He lives in Eastbourne ... but he is not that old.

John Meaney

John Meaney writes space opera, “gothic SF” and (as Thomas Blackthorne) violent, satirical near-future thrillers. His most recent book is the controversial Edge, while his forthcoming Absorption is the first volume of his most ambitious space opera yet, the Ragnarok trilogy. His previous books were Bone Song, Dark Blood, the three-volume Nulapeiron Sequence, and To Hold Infinity. Now a full-time writer, he has taught business analysis and software engineering on three continents, holds a black belt in shotokan karate, and is a trained hypnotist. He adores cats, chocolate and cappuccinos.

Ian R Macleod

Ian has published five novels and three short story collections; a fourth, Journeys, is out from Subterranean Press this summer. Ian's latest novel Song of Time won last year's Arthur C Clarke award in the UK and in the US it won the John W Campbell Award, both for the year's best SF novel.

Juliet E McKenna

Juliet E McKenna has always been fascinated by other worlds and other peoples. After studying Greek and Roman history and literature at St Hilda's, Oxford, she worked in human resources before a career change to combine book-selling and motherhood. Her debut novel in 1999 was The Thief's Gamble, first of the highly successful Tales of Einarinn. 2003 saw Southern Fire, first of The Aldabreshin Compass sequence. 2010 sees Blood in the Water continue The Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution that began with Irons in the Fire. Living in Oxfordshire with her sons and husband, she fits in her writing around her family and vice versa. She is a leading light of the authors' initiative The Write Fantastic, a reviewer, blogger and intermittent creative writing tutor.

Suzanne McLeod

Suzanne McLeod is the author of the Spellcrackers.com urban fantasy series about dangerous faeries, seductive vampires, bureaucratic goblins, magic, mayhem and murder.

Gareth L Powell

Gareth L Powell is a regular contributor to Interzone. In 2007, the readers of the magazine voted his story 'Ack-Ack Macaque' as their favourite short story of the year. Elastic Press published Gareth L Powell's first fiction collection, The Last Reef and Other Stories, in August 2008, and his first novel, Silversands, will be released by Pendragon Press in April 2010.

Martin Sketchley

Martin Sketchley is a British SF author who has published three novels, several short stories and numerous articles.

SMS

Was 'Sms' until Short Message Services became such a big part of the Internet. SF Illustrator. Comic strip artist.Due to the 'Economic Climate', both a strip series and a kids book have been 'In Development' for over a bloody year now. Between this organisational miracle and the Copenhagen Fudge, we're not looking like a viable species.

Kari Sperring

Kari Sperring has been writing as long as she can remember and completed her first novel at the age of 8 (12 pages long and about ponies). She started writing fantasy in her teens, inspired by J R R Tolkien, Alexandre Dumas and Thomas Mallory. She holds a B.A and a PhD in mediaeval history from Cambridge University, and as Kari Maund has written and published five books and many articles on Celtic and Viking history and co-authored a book on the history and real people behind her favourite novel, The Three Musketeers. She’s been a barmaid, a tax officer, a P.A. and a university lecturer, and has found that her fascinations, professional or hobby-level, feed and expand into her fiction.Living With Ghosts evolved from her love of France and its history, ghosts, mysteries, Celtic culture, strange magic and swordfights: her novel-in-progress, The Grass King’s Concubine, has even found a creative role for book-keeping. She’s British and lives in Cambridge, England with her partner Phil and three badly behaved cats. Her website can be found at www.karisperring.com, and she writes a regular blog on LiveJournal as la_marquise_de_.

Anne Sudworth

British artist, Anne Sudworth is internationally known for her magical trees and haunting moonlit landscapes. She has been drawing and painting since early childhood and started her career as a professional artist in 1993 when she presented her first exhibition "Visions and Views". Many more exhibitions have followed including the highly successful "Dreams and Whispers" show and "The Dark Side". She has since exhibited widely and her work can now be found in many collections around the world including Germany, Australia, America, Russia, India, Japan, New Zealand and the UK. Two books on her work have been published, Enchanted World: The Art of Anne Sudworth and more recently Gothic Fantasies: The Paintings of Anne Sudworth.

Ian Watson

Ian Watson wrote the Screen Story for Steven Spielberg's A.I: Artificial Intelligence based on almost a year's work eyeball to eyeball with Stanley Kubrick. Ian's most recent book, in collaboration with Italian Surrealist Robert Quaglia, is The Beloved of My Beloved from Ian Whates' excellent NewCon Press, a volume of transgressive tales which may be the only full-length genre fiction by two authors with different mother tongues. Co-edited with the same Mr Whates is the recently published Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories.

Ian Whates

Ian Whates is an author, editor and publisher. In 2006, he founded NewCon Press, whose books and their contents have won a number of accolades and awards, with new titles being launched at a special event during the Odyssey convention. February 2010 saw the release of the Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories which Ian has co-edited with Ian Watson for Robinson Publishing.

As a writer, Ian has seen more than 30 short stories published in various venues in recent years, and his first collection, The Gift of Joy, appeared in 2009. Ian’s debut novel, City of Dreams and Nightmare, is set to be published this March through Harper Collins’ imprint Angry Robot, with a sequel, City of Hope and Despair, due in September, while a second novel, The Noise Within, will be published via Solaris this May. Ian is currently hard at work writing a sequel to The Noise Within, due to appear in early 2011.

Neil Williamson

Neil Williamson's stories have been published in magazines like The Third Alternative, Interzone and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and in the occasional anthology, such as Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories and The Elastic Book Of Numbers.

Andrew J. Wilson

Andrew J. Wilson is a freelance editor and writer. His short stories have appeared all over the world, sometimes in the most unlikely places. The Terminal Zone, Andrew's play about Rod Serling, was has been staged several times, most recently at Odyssey 2008. His reviews and interviews have been published in The Scotsman, Metro, Interzone, Scotland on Sunday and Dreamwatch. He co-edited the award-nominated anthology Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction with Neil Williamson.