Science Fiction: Writing

Rudy Rucker is a writer, a mathematician, and a computer scientist-—with thirty-two published books. In the 1980s he received Philip K. Dick awards for his cyberpunk novels Software and Wetware. He was a computer science professor for twenty years in Silicon Valley. He is known for his popular science books (on infinity, the fourth dimension, and the meaning of computation), as well as for his novels. He was a founder of the cyberpunk school of SF writing, and also works in the transreal style. Read more »

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 »

In addition to her novel, Greystone, she has several upcoming publications. Christina is a contributing editor to a monthly horror-writing column in The Muse Marquee online magazine. Her short story "Restless: will appear in an anthology which will be released in the summer of 2006. She will write a quarterly true ghost tale, "Case Book," for Haunted Lives online magazine. Christina’s works focus on horror and speculative fiction.She belongs to a multitude of critique groups including The Muse It Up Club, Writers's Block and Critters. Read more »

In July 2005 REMAINS, my tenth novel, was released by BenBella Publishing. I have also published over 50 short stories, a score or more of reviews and essays. I graduated from Clarion SF Workshop in 1988, after being taught by writers like Tim Powers, Samuel R. Delany, Kate Wilhelm, and Damon Knight. I am a lifelong resident of St. Louis and am currently at work on an alternate history set here. Read more »

Film and television writing, both drama and documentary. Expert on the field of science fiction, both as literature and drama. Expert on European and Chinese history. basic fee $200.00 plus expenses for one hour lecture and one hour discussion/questions. Additional hours at $100.