With one hundred stories to his credit in such publications as Aberrations, Aboriginal SF, Dragon Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, and Weird Tales, Brian A. Hopkins has received the Bram Stoker Award, and been a finalist for both the Nebula Award and the Ted Sturgeon Memorial Award.  Hopkins is the author of several previous collections, the novella Cold At Heart (Starlance,1997), and the novel The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club (Yard Dog, 2000).  He lives southeast of Oklahoma City with his wife and two children on seven wooded acres they share with deer, rabbits, squirrels, snakes, a bobcat, and other assorted wildlife.  He writes in a library he built from the ground up.  You can learn more about Brian Hopkins, both genuine and apocryphal, by visiting his webpage at http://bahwolf.com. 

"Brian Hopkins writes of the ocean as if he were a part of it.  His empathy with whales -- in particular -- is phenomenal, and the subtle blend of intense research and intuitive talent is -- at times -- unnerving.  Unforgettable fiction." 

"Brian Hopkins has a sensitivity for shadows.  But make no mistake about it.  This 'sensitive' man will keep you up well past the witching hour.  He is a knight from the nightmare realm...the director darkness...He never met a scream he didn't like." 

With more than fifty stories in print, including appearances in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, and Aboriginal SF, Mary Soon Lee has firmly established her reputation in the science fiction and fantasy field.  Her work has been twice selected for David Hartwell's anthology The Year's Best SF; she has won the Best of the Soft SF Award; and she has been a finalist for both the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and the British Science Fiction Association Award.  A transplanted Londoner of Chinese and Irish descent, Mary now lives in Pittsburgh where she runs a writers' group called the Pittsburgh Worldrights.  She has an M.A. in mathematics from Cambridge University, an M.Sc. in astronautics and space engineering from Cranfield University, and has worked as a consultant in the field of artificial intelligence. 

"Brilliant and passionate.  Hard-edged, glittering rides through the dark." 
-- Jack Mc Devitt, author of Infinity Beach and Deepsix 

"Mary Soon Lee invokes her characters with such humanity, no matter how fantastical their circumstances, that they seem to effortlessly come to life.  Her lovely, lyrical prose is likely to make readers feel they have been dropped into a dream from another world -- a world potentially as real as our own." 

With reprints from the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Tomorrow SF, Aboriginal SF,  Short Story Digest, and other leading publications, along with the original fiction and poetry, Strange Mistresses offers the first comprehensive -- and long awaited -- collection of James Dorr's work.  Dorr is a recipient of the 1998 Best of the Web Award and  finalist for both the Anthony (mystery) and Darrell (stories set in the mid-south) Awards.  He has worked as a technical writer, associate editor on a city magazine, a full-time non-fiction freelancer, and as a musician. 

"'Bitter Perfume' ...an exceptionally fine oriental fantasy, begging comparison to those of Jessica Amanda
Salmonson..my praise can come no higher..." 
--- t. winter-damon, co-author of Duet for the Devil 

"The fantasy is decidedly dark, the somberness relieved by the bright red of blood, the phosphorescence of decay...The writing throughout is disciplined and evocative.  There is an exotic opulence to the decadence..." 
-- Frieda Westford, Foxfax 

     Hugo and Nebula winner Mike Resnick is a master of both long and short fiction. Here, for the first time, his shared-world stories are collected under one cover.

     "One of the most daring and prolific writers in all science fiction...he always delivers."

     "...whether it's travelling into another time to conquer an ancestor's prehistoric adversary, or battling to control a disturbed niece whose terrifying visions come to life... Wisman's style of writing is poetic and refreshing."

"Rarely has a sense of not belonging been made so tactile."