Марта Уэллс: From a Certain Point of View

TRACY DEONN is a writer and second-generation fangirl. She grew up in central North Carolina, where she devoured fantasy books and southern food in equal measure. Her debut contemporary fantasy novel, Legendborn, was named a 2020 Indies Introduce Selection and an Indie Next title for teens by the American Booksellers Association. After earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communication and performance studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Tracy worked in live theater, videogame production, and K–12 education. When she’s not writing, Tracy speaks on panels at science fiction and fantasy conventions, reads fanfic, arranges puppy playdates, and keeps an eye out for ginger-flavored everything.

SETH DICKINSON is the author of The Traitor Baru Cormorant , the forthcoming Exordia , and many short stories. Seth has also written lore for Destiny and Godfall and designed the open-source space opera Blue Planet . The use of the Force to interfere in the secular universe is inevitably corrupting, so all light-side Force users either become petty police or withdraw into Taoist meditation in search of absolute truth. This leaves the use of the Force as a political power to malevolent dark-side adepts, who can only be resisted by their light-side counterparts. The attempt to find a just yet enlightened resolution to this paradox is the heart of Star Wars . Seth dreams of becoming a muscular yet small-brained deepwater fish.

ALEXANDER FREED is the author of the Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron trilogy , Star Wars: Battlefront: Twilight Company, and Star Wars: Rogue One and has written many short stories, comic books, and videogames. Born near Philadelphia, he endeavors to bring the city’s dour charm with him to his current home of Austin, Texas.

JASON FRY is the New York Times bestselling author of the young-adult space-fantasy series The Jupiter Pirates, as well as Star Wars: The Last Jedi , and many other works set in a galaxy far, far away. He still thinks Luke should have run off with Han and Chewie to be a space pirate. Jason lives in Brooklyn with his wife, son, and about a metric ton of Star Wars stuff.

CHRISTIE GOLDEN is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of more than fifty novels and more than a dozen short stories in the fields of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Her media tie-in works include launching the Ravenloft line in 1991 with Vampire of the Mists, more than a dozen Star Trek novels, several movie novelizations, the Warcraft novels Rise of the Horde, Lord of the Clans, Arthas: Rise of the Lich King, and Before the Storm, Assassin’s Creed: Heresy, as well as Star Wars: Dark Disciple, Star Wars Battlefront II: Inferno Squad, and the Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi novels Omen, Allies, and Ascension . In 2017, she was awarded the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers’ Faust Award and named a Grandmaster in recognition of nearly three decades of writing. Currently Golden works for Activision Blizzard in story and franchise development, helping to create everything from comics to short stories to cinematics for Blizzard games, including World of Warcraft.

HANK GREEN is the New York Times bestselling author of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing and A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor. He’s also the CEO of Complexly, a production company that creates educational content, including Crash Course and SciShow, prompting The Washington Post to name him “one of America’s most popular science teachers.” Complexly’s videos have been viewed more than two billion times on YouTube. Hank and his brother, John, are also raising money to dramatically and systematically improve maternal health care in Sierra Leone, where, if trends continue, one in seventeen women will die in childbirth. You can join them at PIH.org/hankandjohn.

ROB HART is the author of The Warehouse . He also wrote the Ash McKenna crime series and Scott Free with James Patterson. His next novel, Paradox Hotel , will be published by Ballantine Books. He lives in New York City. Find more at robwhart.com.

LYDIA KANG is a practicing physician and author of the young adult novels Control, Catalyst, Toxic, and The November Girl, as well as the adult medical mysteries A Beautiful Poison, The Impossible Girl, and Opium and Absinthe. She has also co-written the nonfiction book Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything with Nate Pedersen. Lydia saw Star Wars in the movie theater at age six and has been whining about Tosche Station ever since.

MICHAEL KOGGE is a bestselling author and screenwriter. Among his Star Wars works, he wrote the junior novels for the Star Wars sequel film trilogy and the Rebels animated series. His other titles include books for HBO’s Game of Thrones and Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts franchises, the movie companion novel Batman v Superman: Cross Fire, and the original graphic novel Empire of the Wolf, an epic tale of werewolves in ancient Rome. You can find him on the Web at michaelkogge.com.

R. F. KUANG is the Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy award nominated author of The Poppy War and The Dragon Republic (Harper Voyager). She has an MPhil in Chinese studies from the University of Cambridge and is currently pursuing an MSc in contemporary Chinese studies at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship. She also translates Chinese science fiction to English. Her debut The Poppy War was listed by Time, Amazon, Goodreads, and The Guardian as one of the best books of 2018 and has won the Crawford Award and Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel.

C. B. LEE is a Lambda Literary Award–nominated writer of young adult science fiction and fantasy. Her works include the Sidekick Squad series (Duet Books), Ben 10 graphic novels (Boom! Studios), Out Now: Queer We Go Again (HarperTeen), and Minecraft: The Shipwreck (Penguin Random House). Lee’s work has been featured in Teen Vogue, Wired magazine, Hypable, Tor’s Best of Fantasy and Sci Fi, and the American Library Association’s Rainbow List.

MACKENZI LEE holds a BA in history and an MFA from Simmons College in writing for children and young adults. She is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World, and Marvel’s Loki: Where Mischief Lies, among others. In 2019, she was named to the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 list for her work in bringing minority narratives to historical fiction and nonfiction. She loves Diet Coke, sweater weather, and, more than anything, Star Wars.

JOHN JACKSON MILLER is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Kenobi, Star Wars: A New Dawn, Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith, and the Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic graphic novel collections, as well as novels, comics, and short stories for franchises including Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, Battlestar Galactica, Mass Effect, and Halo. A comics industry historian, he runs the Comichron website. His fiction website is farawaypress.com.

MICHAEL MORECI is a bestselling comics author and novelist. His original works include the space adventure novels Black Star Renegades and We Are Mayhem as well as the comic series Wasted Space, The Plot, Curse, Roche Limit, Burning Fields, and more. He’s also written many canonical comics for Star Wars, and he’s currently working on his next novel. He lives with his family just outside Chicago.