Family: John thanks his amazing wife, Christie, his mom, Marianne, and his sister, Becky, for all their love and support, and their endless enthusiasm for all his new projects. Doug thanks his parents, Joyce and Gary, and his brother, Brian, for exactly the same.
Friends: Robert Bland, Desirina Boskovich, Christopher M. Cevasco, Jordan Hamessley, Andrea Kail, David Barr Kirtley, Matt London, Nicole Mikoleski, Jesse Sneddon, and Michael Spensieri, for being there for us when we’re not anthologizing, and for, you know, putting up with us while we nattered on about the project incessantly.
Readers: John and Doug both thank all the readers and reviewers of this anthology; we hope we’ve done the Land of Oz proud. (John would also like to thank all the readers and reviewers who loved his
other
anthologies, making it possible for him to do more.)
Writers: And last, but certainly not least: a big thanks to all of the authors who appear in this anthology.
Dale Bailey
Dale Bailey lives in North Carolina with his family, and has published three novels,
The Fallen
,
House of Bones,
and
Sleeping Policemen
(with Jack Slay Jr.). His short fiction, collected in
The Resurrection Man’s Legacy and Other Stories,
has won the International Horror Guild Award and has been twice nominated for the Nebula Award.
Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card is the best-selling author of more than forty novels, including
Ender’s Game
, which was a winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. The sequel,
Speaker for the Dead
, also won both awards, making Card the only author to have captured science fiction’s two most coveted prizes in consecutive years. Recent books include
The Lost Gates
,
Ruins
,
Earth Aware
, and
Shadows in Flight
.
Rae Carson & C. C. Finlay
Rae Carson is the author of the
Fire and Thorns
trilogy. Her debut novel was a finalist for the Morris, Norton, and Cybils awards and won the Ohioana Book Award for young adult fiction. C.C. Finlay is the author of the
Traitor to the Crown
trilogy. His short stories have been finalists for the Hugo,
Nebula, Sidewise, and Sturgeon awards. Carson and Finlay are married. They live in Ohio, where they are working on their next collaboration.
David Farland
David Farland is an award-winning,
New York Times
best-selling author with nearly fifty science fiction and fantasy novels to his credit. He has won the Writers of the Future International Gold Award for best short story of the year, the Philip K. Dick Memorial Special Award for Best Novel in the English Language, the Whitney Award for Best Novel of the Year, and others. He has worked with some of the largest franchises in the world—writing novels for
Star Wars
and
The Mummy
. Dave worked for many years as the judge for one of the world’s largest writing contests, as an educator teaching creative writing at Brigham Young University, and thus has trained dozens of other
New York Times
best sellers, including Brandon Sanderson, Brandon Mull, and Stephenie Meyer. Dave currently lives in Saint George, Utah, with his wife, children, two cats and a cocker spaniel.
Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels
The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass, The Cosmology of the Wider World
, and
The Shadow Year
. His story collections are
The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream
, and
The Drowned Life
.
Crackpot Palace
, a new collection of twenty stories, was recently published by Morrow/HarperCollins. Ford writes somewhere in Ohio.
Theodora Goss
Theodora Goss’s publications include the short story collection
In the Forest of Forgetting
;
Interfictions
, a short story anthology coedited with Delia Sherman;
Voices from Fairyland
, a poetry anthology with critical essays and a selection of her own poems; and
The Thorn and the Blossom
, a novella in a two-sided accordion format. She has been a finalist for the Nebula Award, the Crawford Award, the Locus Award, and the Mythopoeic Award, and on the Tiptree Award Honor List. She has won the World Fantasy and Rhysling Awards. Her website can be found at
www.theodoragoss.com
.
Simon R. Green
Simon R. Green has written over forty books, all of them different. He has written eight Deathstalker books, twelve Nightside books, and thinks trilogies are for wimps. His current series are the Secret Histories, featuring Shaman Bond, the very secret agent, and The Ghost Finders, featuring traditional hauntings in modern settings. He acts in open air productions of Shakespeare, rides motorbikes, and loves old-time silent films. His short stories have appeared in the anthologies
Mean Streets, Unusual Suspects, Powers of Detection, Wolfsbane and Mistletoe, The Way of the Wizard, The Living Dead 2, Those Who Fight Monsters, Dark Delicacies III,
and
Home Improvements: Undead Edition
.
Kat Howard
Kat Howard’s short fiction has been performed on NPR as part of Selected Shorts, and was included in
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012
, edited by Rich Horton. You can find her work in
Lightspeed, Subterranean, Apex,
and various
other magazines and anthologies. She lives in the Twin Cities, and you can find her on Twitter as @KatWithSword.
Ken Liu
Ken Liu (
http://kenliu.name
) is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. His fiction has appeared in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed,
and
Strange Horizons
, among other places. He has won a Nebula, a Hugo, a World Fantasy Award, and a Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award, and been nominated for the Sturgeon and the Locus awards. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
Jonathan Maberry
Jonathan Maberry is a
New York Times
best-selling author, multiple Bram Stoker Award winner, and Marvel Comics writer. He’s the author of many novels, including
Assassin’s Code, Flesh & Bone Dead of Night, Patient Zero,
and
Rot & Ruin
; and the editor of
V-Wars: A Chronicle of the Vampire Wars
. His nonfiction books range on topics from martial arts to zombie pop culture. Since 1978 he has sold more than 1,200 magazine feature articles, 3,000 columns, two plays, greeting cards, song lyrics, poetry, and textbooks. Jonathan continues to teach the celebrated Experimental Writing for Teens class, which he created. He founded the Writers Coffeehouse and co founded The Liars Club, and is a frequent speaker at schools and libraries, as well as a keynote speaker and guest of honor at major writers and genre conferences.
Gregory Maguire
Gregory Maguire is the author of
The Wicked Years
, a four-book cycle including
Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men
, and
Out of Oz
—all
New York Times
bestsellers.
Wicked: The Musical
is soon to celebrate its tenth anniversary on Broadway, and is one of the top dozen longest-running shows in Broadway history. Maguire has written five other novels for adults and two dozen books for children, and has written and performed pieces for National Public Radio’s
All Things Considered
and
Selected Shorts
. His novel,
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
, was an ABC film starring Stockard Channing.
Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire is the best-selling author of two ongoing urban fantasy series, both published by DAW Books (the October Daye adventures and InCryptid). She was the winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She also writes medical science fiction under the name Mira Grant. Between her two identities, she is a five-time finalist for the Hugo Award, and has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson and Philip K. Dick Awards. Seanan is the only woman ever to appear on the Hugo ballot four times in a single year. She is a founding member of the Hugo award-winning SFSqueecast, an ongoing adventure in mild positivity. Seanan likes horror movies, abnormally large blue cats, and cookies. You can find her on Twitter at @seananmcguire, and on the web at
www.seananmcguire.com
. Seanan thinks sleep is for other people, and is still waiting for her twister.
Rachel Swirsky
Rachel Swirsky holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in venues including
Tor.com, Subterranean Magazine,
and
Clarkesworld Magazine
. In 2010, she won the Nebula for best novella for “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window.”
Robin Wasserman
Robin Wasserman is the author of several books for children and young adults, including
The Book of Blood and Shadow
, the Cold Awakening Trilogy, the Chasing Yesterday Trilogy, and
Hacking Harvard
. Her books have appeared on the ALA Quick Picks and Popular Paperbacks lists as well as the Indie Next list, and her Seven Deadly Sins series was adapted into a television miniseries. She is a former children’s book editor who lives and writes in Brooklyn. Find her at
www.robinwasserman.com
or on Twitter @robinwasserman.
Tad Williams
Former singer, shoe seller, radio show host, and inventor of interactive sci-fi television, Tad Williams established himself as an international best-selling author with his Dragonbone Chair epic fantasy series. The books that followed, the Otherland series, are now a multi million-dollar MMO launching in 2013 from dtp/realU/Gamigo. Tad is also the author of the Shadowmarch books; the stand-alone Faerie epic,
The War of the Flowers
; two collections of short stories (
Rite
and
A Stark and Wormy Knight
), the Shakespearian fantasy
Caliban’s Hour,
and, with his partner and collaborator Deborah Beale, the childrens’/all-ages fantasy series the Ordinary Farm novels. Recently, with
The Dirty Streets of Heaven
, Tad has begun publishing the Bobby Dollar novels, noir fantasy thrillers set again the backdrop of the monstrously ancient cold war between heaven and hell and following the adventures of a certain maverick angel. Tad is also the author of
Tailchaser’s Song
: his first novel spawned the subgenre of cats and fantasy that we see widely today.
Tailchaser’s Song
is in production in 2013 as an animated film from Animetropolis/IDA.
Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen, often called the “Hans Christian Andersen of America,” has published over 325 books. Two of her short stories won Nebula Awards. Her books and stories have won the Golden Kite Award, the Caldecott Medal, two Christopher Medals, the Jewish Book Award, and the California Young Reader Medal, and been nominated for the Hugo, the National Book Award, and dozens of others. She has been voted Grand Master of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and Grand Master of the World Fantasy Association. Six colleges and universities have given her honorary doctorates.
Galen Dara has done art for Edge Publishing, Dagan Books,
Apex
,
Scapezine
,
Tales to Terrify, Peculiar Pages, Sunstone
,
LovecraftZine,
and
Lightspeed Magagzine
. She is on the staff of BookLifeNow, blogs for the Inkpunks, and writes the Art Nerd column at the Functional Nerds. When Galen is not online, you can find her on the edge of the Sonoran Desert, climbing mountains or hanging out with a loving assortment of human and animal companions. Follow her on Twitter @galendara.
John Joseph Adams
is the best-selling editor of many anthologies, such as
The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, Epic: Legends of Fantasy
,
Other Worlds Than These
,
Armored
,
Under the Moons of Mars
,
Brave New Worlds
,
Wastelands
,
The Living Dead
,
The Living Dead 2
,
By Blood We Live
,
Federations
,
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
, and
The Way of the Wizard
. Forthcoming work includes
Wastelands 2
,
Dead Man’s Hand
, and
Robot Uprisings
. John is a four-time finalist for the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award. He has been called “the reigning king of the anthology world” by Barnes & Noble, and his books have been lauded as some of the best anthologies of all time. In addition to his anthology work, John is also the editor of
Lightspeed Magazine
and
Nightmare Magazine
, and he is the co-host of Wired.com’s
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy
podcast. For more information, visit his website at
johnjosephadams.com
, and you can find him on Twitter @johnjosephadams.
Douglas Cohen
is the former editor of
Realms of Fantasy Magazine
, where he worked for six and a half years. In the magazine’s final year, they published their 100
th
issue, won a Nebula Award, and were nominated for a second one. Multiple illustrations he solicited for the magazine have appeared in
the prestigious
Spectrum Art
series. Douglas is also a writer, and his stories have appeared in or are forthcoming in
Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
,
Interzone
, and
Weird Tales
. He recently finished writing his first novel.
Oz Reimagined
marks his first anthology. Find him on Twitter @Douglas_Cohen.