Cora Buhlert was born and bred in Bremen, North Germany, where she still lives today – after time spent in London, Singapore, Rotterdam and Mississippi. Cora holds an MA degree in English from the University of Bremen.

Cora has been writing, since she was a teenager, and has published stories, articles and poetry in various international magazines. She is the author of the Silencer series of pulp style thrillers, the Shattered Empire space opera series, the In Love and War science fiction romance series, the Thurvok and Kurval sword and sorcery series, the Helen Shepherd Mysteries and plenty of standalone stories in multiple genres.

Cora is the winner of the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer and the 2021 Space Cowboy Award. When Cora is not writing, she works as a translator and teacher.

Visit her on the web at www.corabuhlert.com or follow her on Twitter under @CoraBuhlert.

Rick Partlow is that rarest of species, a native Floridian. Born in Tampa, he attended Florida Southern College and graduated with a degree in History and a commission in the US Army as an Infantry officer.

His lifelong love of science fiction began with Have Space Suit---Will Travel and the other Heinlein juveniles and traveled through Clifford Simak, Asimov, Clarke and on to William Gibson, Walter Jon Williams and Peter F Hamilton. And somewhere, submerged in the worlds of others, Rick began to create his own worlds.

He has written over 60 books in a dozen different series, and his short stories have been included in twelve different anthologies.

He is currently writing the best-selling Drop Trooper series for Aethon Books, a mil-SF alien invasion series, as well as the Taken to the Stars series for Variant Publishing.

He lives in northern Wyoming with his wife and a goofy blackmouth cur. Besides writing and reading science fiction and fantasy, he enjoys outdoor photography, hiking and camping.

The following are the series in Partlow's Birthright universe with a suggested series reading order:

Holy War

Drop Trooper

Birthright

Recon

Acheron

Psi War

Jeff Tanyard writes science fiction. He loves space battles, genetic engineering, alien life, and all the other things that make science fiction fun.

J.J. Green is a British-Australian science fiction writer who writes about ordinary people living with the challenges of existence in future societies, and kickass sci fi heroines too.

Her series include Star Legend, Space Colony One, Star Mage Saga, Shadows of the Void, Interstellar Fleet and Carrie Hatchett, Space Adventurer.

J.J. was born in London’s East End within the sound of the church bells of St. Mary Le Bow, Cheapside, which makes her a bona fide Cockney. She first left the U.K. as a young adult and has lived in Australia, Laos and Taiwan. She currently lives aboard her starship in Cambridge, UK, with her ship’s cat, called Black Cat, the cabin boy and the chief engineer.

Alasdair studied at the University of Cambridge, leaving with a BA in Natural Sciences and an MSci in Experimental and Theoretical Physics. His masters options included gravitational astrophysics, planetary geophysics, remote sensing and high resolution electron microscopy. He went on to earn a PGCE specialising in Science and Physics from the University of Bangor. A secondary teacher for over fifteen years, he has plenty of experience communicating scientific ideas.

He grew in Lancashire, within easy reach of the Yorkshire Dales, Pennines, Lake District and Snowdonia. After stints living in Cambridge, North Wales and the Cotswolds, he has lived in Somerset since 2002.

Given those amazing locations, it's no wonder he's been climbing, mountaineering, caving, white-water kayaking and skiing as long as he can remember. Growing up he spent most of my spare time in the hills. Recently, he's been spending more time sea kayaking and swimming, and has got into trail running.

He is an experienced mountain and cave leader, holding a range of qualifications including ML, SPA and LCL. He is also a course director for national climbing and navigation award schemes.

Benjamin Douglas writes action/adventure science fiction with a quick pace, memorable characters, and twisting plots to keep you reading into the wee hours. Opt in to receive his monthly/bimonthly newsletter and get an exclusive free short story, "The Trials of Io," a prequel to his ongoing Starship Fairfax series. You can find and follow Benjamin at the following locations:

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C. Gold is an avid World of Warcraft gamer and book reader. She enjoys multiple genres, but her favorites are fantasy, science fiction, urban fantasy, paranormal, and romance.

After retiring from a career of torturing software (perks of a software tester), she could no longer hold back the flow of ideas demanding to be written. This also let her unleash new torments on unsuspecting characters, though they got even by doing things not in her outlines!

She favors writing about the broken, the unusual, and the shades of grey between right and wrong. Her worlds are influenced by her background in electrical engineering, physics, and computer science as well as her love of authors like Barbara Hambly, Janny Wurts, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke.

If you join her newsletter, you can get a free copy of ‘The Vampire’s Raven’ as well as flashbacks into Amira’s life before the events of ‘The Summoner and the Seer’.

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