Rudy Rucker is a mathematician, computer scientist, professor and writer who has twice won the Philip K. Dick Award for best SF paperback original, and has published a number of successful popular books on mathematical subjects, including "The Fourth Dimension" and "Infinity and the Mind." He lives in Los Gatos, California.
Jane Yolen is the award-winning author of more than two hundred books, including fantasy, science fiction, and poetry, which earned her the moniker the American Hans Christian Andersen. Her titles include "Odysseus in the Serpent Maze", "The Dragon's Boy", and "The Girl Who Loved the Wind". Jane Yolen and her husband divide their time between a farmhouse in Massachusetts and a house in Scotland.
Kathleen Ann Goonan burst into prominence with "Queen City Jazz," the start of her Nanotech Quartet. "The Bones of Time," her widely acclaimed second novel, was a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2000. "Crescent"" ""City"" Rhapsody" (third in the Quartet) was a Nebula nominee, while "Light Music," the conclusion of the series, was described by Booklist as the "brilliant conclusion to a tetralogy as consequential in sf as Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy." She and her husband divide their time between homes in Tennessee and in the Florida Keys.