Lois McMaster Bujold was born in Columbus, Ohio. She began writing in 1982, and her first sale was short story ‘‘Barter’’ to Twilight Zone Magazine in 1985. Her notable short work includes Nebula finalist ‘‘Weatherman’’ (1990) and Hugo finalist ‘‘Winterfair Gifts’’ (2004). Some of her stories are collected in Dreamweaver’s Dilemma (1996). She launched her [...]

Claude Lalumière was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He founded a specialty SF bookshop, Nebula, in Montreal in 1989, and in 1993 he opened danger!, an alternative bookshop. After almost ten years running the stores, he sold them to become a full-time freelance writer and editor. His short fiction has been collected in two volumes [...]

From the January 2012 issue of Locus Magazine Science fiction writers and fans are prone to lauding the predictive value of the genre, prompting weird questions like ‘‘How can you write science fiction today? Aren’t you worried that real science will overtake your novel before it’s published?’’ This question has a drooling idiot of a [...]