Science Fiction: General

David Allen Batchelor

David
Batchelor
Awards and Credentials: 
BS Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977 Ph D Physics University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1984 NASA/GSFC Award for Outstanding Performance 1992 NASA/GSFC Performance Award 1996, 2007, 2009 NASA/GSFC Group Award for outstanding team effort provided on the President's Quality Award Team 1997 NASA/GSFC Special Act Award 2003 Certificate of Appreciation from NASA Headquarters for outstanding contributions to the GLOBE Program, 2003 NASA Special Act Team Award, NASA Team Time Off Award for Integrated Mission Design Center team members, 2007 NASA Twenty Year Service Award Novel: The Metalmark Contract, by David Batchelor, 2011

Dr David Batchelor earned his undergraduate B.S. in Physics from MIT and his Read more »

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Gregory A. Wilson

Gregory
Wilson
Awards and Credentials: 
Associate Professor of English, St. John's University Member of MLA, ALSCW, RSA, CEA, Writers' Symposium, Codex, others Professional Author and Theater Critic Three-time St. John's competitive grant award winner Regular reader and panelist at ICFA, Readercon, Ad Astra, Gen Con, World Fantasy, Worldcon, numerous academic conferences (ALSCW, RSA, CEA, others)

Dr. Gregory A. Wilson is currently an Associate Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City, having also taught at Boston University after receiving his Ph.D. in English from Brandeis University. Read more »

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David Brin

David
Brin

David Brin is a scientist, inventor, and New York Times bestselling author. With books ranslated into 25 languages, he has won multiple Hugo, Nebula, and other awards. A film directed by Kevin Costner was based on David’s novel The Postman. Other works have been optioned by Paramount and Warner Bros. One of them – Kiln People – has been called a book of ideas disguised as a fast-moving and fun noir detective story, set in a vividly original future; while a hardcover graphic novel – The Life Eaters – explored alternate outcomes to World War II. Read more »

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Michael Andaluz

Michael
Andaluz

Mike frequents Southeastern Michigan SF/F conventions and often plans writing related programming, as well as monitoring the activities of several genre-writing communities around metropolitan Detroit. He has one short story collection available in print as an independent self publisher and has done reading appearances to support his work at all of Michigan’s major SF literary conventions since 2004. Mike’s fee is substantially less than $100 and he is surprisingly approachable for membership-supported events. Read more »

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Brenda Cooper

Brenda
Cooper

I am a professional speaker, a “general futurist,” and speak to a wide range of largely business and government audiences. As the Chief Information Officer for the City of Kirkland, a published science fiction author, and a futurist (see www.futurist.com for some of my articles), I have experience giving interactive “conversational” or keynote talks designed to help audiences think and talk about the future. My fees vary by the audience, amount of travel, preparation involved an other factors. Read more »

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David Crampton

David
Crampton

David M. Crampton has published a Fantasy/Science Fiction novel called The Remembrance. He lives in Lansing, MI, and administers servers, collects transformers, and pursues other nerdly pursuits while not writing. He does not charge for speaking, but would rather take a bus or train somewhere than have to drive.

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A.R. Yngve

A.R.
Yngve

Swedish SF writer/artist. Available for speaking gigs in Scandinavia ONLY (in English or Swedish). Fluent English speaker with university education in English and Literature. Some experience as a stand-up comedian. Politically unaffiliated, but strongly pro-science and pro-”separation of Church and State”.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
TERRA HEXA - Wela Fantasy, Sweden, 2004\n2.
TERRA HEXA II - Wela Fantasy, Sweden, projected 2006 release Short fiction (in print). Read more »

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Eric James Stone

Eric
Stone

One of Eric James Stone’s earliest memories is of seeing an Apollo moon-shot launch on television. That might explain his life-long fascination with astronomy and space travel. His father’s collection of old science fiction ensured that Eric grew up on a full diet of Asimov, Heinlein and Clarke. Despite taking creative writing classes in the 1980s, Eric did not begin seriously writing fiction until 2002. In 2003 he attended Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp. Since then, he has sold stories to the Writers of the Future Contest, Analog, and Intergalactic Medicine Show. Read more »

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James Palmer

James
Palmer

James is a freelance writer who has written articles, columns, interviews, fiction and poetry for SciFiNow.com, RevolutionSF.com, Strange Horizons, Singu1arity, Scifaikuest, Worlds Apart, and the Internet Review of Science Fiction. He also writes a movie review column entitled “Barium Cinema” for Continuum Science Fiction, and reviews short fiction for the Hugo-nominated ezine Tangent. He has studied science fiction his entire life, and can talk about genre history, the history of fandom, trends in fiction, and major authors. He lives in Flowery Branch, Georgia.

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Nancy Kress

Nancy
Kress

Nancy Kress is the author of twenty-three books: eleven SF novels, three fantasy novels, two thrillers, three collections of short stories, one YA novel, and three books on writing fiction. She is perhaps best known for the “Sleepless” trilogy that began with BEGGARS IN SPAIN. The novel was based on a Nebula- and Hugo-winning novella of the same name; the series then continued with BEGGARS AND CHOOSERS and BEGGARS RIDE. Read more »

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