Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, and spent his childhood in Cornwall, England and Wales. He earned degrees in astronomy from the University of Newcastle in England (1988) and a PhD from the University of St. Andrew’s in Scotland (1991). In 1991 he moved to The Netherlands to work for the European Space [...]

Sharyn November was born in New York City, and earned a BA at Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied poetry. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The North American Review, Shenandoah, and many other publications, and she received a working scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference when she was 21 years old. After some [...]