Piers Anthonyis the author of the Xanth series of New York Times bestsellers. He is SF's top selling author of the decade. Other books of his include the Bio of a Space Tyrantseries, Macroscope,The Adept series, the Incarnation of Immortality series, and his posthumous collaboration with Robert Kornwise, Through the Ice. Born in England the child of dedicated Quakers, Anthony is still an ardent vegetarian. He lives on a tree farm in rural Florida with his wife and one of his two daughters.
With one of the fastest growing audiences in all of fiction today, Mercedes Lackey is the author of the Heralds of Valdemar series, the SERRAted Edge series of urban fantasy collaborations, the Bardic Voices series, and many others. Her science fiction includes the national bestseller The Ship Who Searched (written with Anne McCaffrey), and Wing Commander: Freedom Flight (written with Ellen Guon). She lives outside Tulsa, Oklahoma with her husband, the artist and author Larry Dixon, and their three birds.