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Influenced early in his life by the works of Heinlein, Clarke, and Asimov, Jonathan Kotas went on to a science and engineering education and has worked on space & terrestrial power and propulsion programs for over 25 years. He has worked at a number of national laboratories during this time and is currently supporting the Space Shuttle program at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne in Canoga Park, CA. Mr. Kotas is also a co-founder of SoftSport, a company that invented real-time team & player analysis of soccer games.

Isaac Szpindel is an award-winning author and screenwriter, a producer, engineer, and doctor/neurologist. His short-fiction includes the Aurora-Award-winning "When the Morning Stars Sang Together" from DAW's ReVisions anthology, which he also co-edited with Julie Czerneda, "Ineffable" in DAW's In the Shadow of Evil, and "From Gehenna" in DAW's Slipstreams. Isaac's award-winning screenwriting has been translated into many languages and airs world-wide with credits that include Warner Brothers and Disney. He is also a frequent lecturer and on-air television guest.

Ellen Datlow was editor of Sci Fiction, the multi award-winning fiction area of SCIFI.COM, for almost six years. She was fiction editor of Omni for over seventeen years and has worked with an array of writers including Susanna Clarke, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. LeGuin, Bruce Sterling, Peter Straub, Jonathan Carroll, George R. R. Martin, William Gibson, Joyce Carol Oates, William Burroughs, and others. Her most recent anthologies include The Dark, The Green Man, and The Faery Reel (the latter two with Terri Windling). She's been co-editing The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror for twenty years.

Evo is the poster child for Type A personalities the world over: washed-up musician, tree-hugging herbalist, heretical-but-ordained minister, talk-radio personality, advertising executive, and technology innovator all wrapped up in one single-serving package. In the podcasting world, Evo tends to infect others with the podcasting bug, from budding show hosts to the people behind the scenes finding new uses for podcast technologies. His first podcast was available on 10/14/2004, though many listeners to his program had been downloading .mp3 files directly from his website since 2002.

Dr. Paul Abell is a planetary scientist assigned to the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Directorate at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He has been studying potentially hazardous asteroids and near-Earth objects for over 7 years. He was a telemetry officer for the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft NIS (Near-Infrared Spectrometer) team and is a member of the science team for the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRS) on the Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft. Paul, his wife Amy Sisson, and their feline friends have lived in the Houston area since December 2003.

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